Biography
William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. He frequently collaborates with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers.
Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production. He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He received his first Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for his role as Sergeant Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986). In 1988, Dafoe played Jesus in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ and costarred in Mississippi Burning, both of which were controversial.
After receiving his second Academy Award nomination (as Best Supporting Actor) for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Dafoe portrayed the supervillain Norman Osborn / Green Goblin in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) earning him the Guinness World Record for the "longest career as a live-action Marvel character". He also portrayed the villains in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and XXX: State of the Union (2005), as well as Carson Clay in the film Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007). In 2009, he starred in the experimental film Antichrist, one of his three films with Lars von Trier. Dafoe then appeared in The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, The Grand Budapest Hotel (all 2014), The Great Wall (2016), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Florida Project (2017) (for which he received his third Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch, and Nightmare Alley (both 2021). He portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman (2018), Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2022).
Dafoe has portrayed several real-life figures, including T. S. Eliot in Tom & Viv (1994), Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pasolini (2014), Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018) (for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, his first in that category), and Leonhard Seppala in Togo (2019).
Filmography
all 234
Movies 210
self 64
TV Shows 24
Narrator 7
Voice 6
Writer 1
Nosferatu (2024)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Finally Dawn (2024)
Poor Things (2023)
Gonzo Girl (2023)
Pet Shop Days (2023)
Asteroid City (2023)
The Wild One (2023)
Inside (2023)
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone (2022)
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus (2022)
Dead for a Dollar (2022)
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue (2022)
7 Deaths of Maria Callas (2022)
Il coraggio di essere Franco (2022)
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022)
The Northman (2022)
Finding Satoshi (2022)
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious (2022)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The French Dispatch (2021)
Why Are We (Not) Creative? (2021)
River (2021)
The Card Counter (2021)
Maresco / Pasolini (2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
Sportin' Life (2020)
Wim Wenders, Desperado (2020)
Siberia (2020)
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago (2020)
The Last Thing He Wanted (2020)
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale (2020)
Tommaso (2020)
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee (2019)
Togo (2019)
Vincent van Gogh Superstar (2019)
Motherless Brooklyn (2019)
The Lighthouse (2019)
Love, Antosha (2019)
Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019)
Going Deep Into the World of 'Aquaman' (2019)
Manou the Swift (2019)
Opus Zero (2018)
Aquaman (2018)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Brothers in Arms (2018)
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
Vox Lux (2018)
The House That Jack Built (2018)
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci (2018)
IMDb Me (2018)
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project (2018)
Mountain (2017)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
NHK WORLD PRIME (2017)
The Florida Project (2017)
Piazza Vittorio (2017)
Death Note (2017)
What Happened to Monday (2017)
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant (2017)
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017)
PIIGS (2017)
Sanctuary (2017)
The Great Wall (2016)
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Father (2016)
A Family Man (2016)
Sculpt (2016)
Finding Dory (2016)
Nelson Algren Live (2016)
Mind the Gap (2016)
My Hindu Friend (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015)
The Making of A Most Wanted Man (2015)
Don't F*#% With John Wick (2015)
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
John Wick (2014)
Bad Country (2014)
Pasolini (2014)
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg (2014)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
The Making of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
Off Camera with Sam Jones (2014)
The Benaki Museum (2013)
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Rumble on the Lot: Walter Hill's Streets of Fire Revisited (2013)
Love's Routine (2013)
The Smile Man (2013)
Saving Norman (2013)
Odd Thomas (2013)
Tomorrow You're Gone (2012)
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (2012)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)
John Carter (2012)
The Hunter (2011)
Conan (2010)
Miral (2010)
A Woman (2010)
The Making of Daybreakers (2010)
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Daybreakers (2010)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Farewell (2009)
Antichrist (2009)
The Dust of Time (2008)
Adam Resurrected (2008)
Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Erika Rabau - Der Puck von Berlin (2008)
Wintergasten (2007)
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
Cannes: All Access (2007)
Voom Portraits (2007)
Anamorph (2007)
The Procedure (2007)
Go Go Tales (2007)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Walker (2007)
Tales from Earthsea (2006)
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
Inside Man (2006)
American Dreamz (2006)
Ripley Under Ground (2005)
The Colbert Report (2005)
Before It Had a Name (2005)
Manderlay (2005)
This Is an Adventure (2005)
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005)
xXx: State of the Union (2005)
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' (2005)
The Aviator (2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Control (2004)
The Misbehavers (2004)
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004)
The Clearing (2004)
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
The Reckoning (2004)
The Anti-Hero's Journey (2004)
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.' (2003)
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Overnight (2003)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Rockets Redglare! (2003)
Auto Focus (2002)
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Mania (2002)
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' (2002)
Clear and Present Danger: Behind the Danger (2002)
Edges of the Lord (2001)
Pavilion of Women (2001)
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001)
Animal Factory (2000)
Bullfighter (2000)
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure (2000)
eXistenZ (1999)
New Rose Hotel (1999)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
The Directors (1999)
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle (1999)
Lulu on the Bridge (1998)
Affliction (1998)
Abel/Asia (1998)
The Wonderful World of Disney (1997)
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
Victory (1996)
The English Patient (1996)
Basquiat (1996)
The Daily Show (1996)
The Night and the Moment (1995)
The Kingdom (1994)
Inside the Actors Studio (1994)
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Tom & Viv (1994)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Brace Up! (1993)
White Homeland Commando (1993)
Body of Evidence (1993)
Madonna: The Name of the Game (1993)
Rhyme 'Em to Death (1993)
Light Sleeper (1992)
White Sands (1992)
North on Evers (1992)
Fishing with John (1991)
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Cry-Baby (1990)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
The Simpsons (1989)
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Off Limits (1988)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Platoon (1986)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
O Panama (1985)
Roadhouse 66 (1984)
Streets of Fire (1984)
New York Nights (1984)
Atalanta Strategy (1984)
The Hitchhiker (1983)
The Hunger (1983)
The Loveless (1981)
Heaven's Gate (1980)
Saturday Night Live (1975)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962)
The Oscars (1953)
SNL 1975
Brincando na cozinha
The Legend of Ochi
American Nails
The Man in My Basement
Tropico
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1955-07-22
Deathday2022-04-20 (66 years old)
Birth NameWilliam James Dafoe
Birth PlaceAppleton, United States of America
RelationshipsElizabeth A. LeCompte (1977-01-01 - 2004-01-01)
SpouseGiada Colagrande
SiblingsDonald Dafoe
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesNew York City · Appleton, United States of America
Also Known AsWillem DeFoe, William Dafoe, Jr., William J. Dafoe, 윌렘 데포, Уиллем Дефо, Γουίλεμ Νταφόε, 威廉·达福, William James "Willem" Dafoe, William James Dafoe, Віллем Дефо, ויליאם ג'. "וילם" דפו, וויליאם דפו, 威廉·達佛
AwardsRomics d'Oro, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Donostia Award, Independent Spirit Awards, Honorary Golden Bear, Saturn Award, Satellite Awards
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