Willem Dafoe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Willem Dafoe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American

actor. He is known for his distinct gravelly voice, and has received

multiple accolades, including nominations for four Academy Awards and

three Golden Globe Awards. He has frequently collaborated with

filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian

Schnabel, and Wes Anderson.Dafoe was an early member of experimental

theater company The Wooster Group, where he acted in several

productions. 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 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

starred in Mississippi Burning, both of which were controversial.

Following small roles in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Wild at

Heart (1990), he began a six-film collaboration with director Paul

Schrader with the drama Light Sleeper (1992). He starred in the

critically panned erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) and then

co-starred in Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient

(1996), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), and The Boondock Saints

(1999).After receiving his second Academy Award nomination for

portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Dafoe played

Norman Osborn in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), the villains in

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and XXX: State of the Union (2005),

and 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, Aquaman (2018)

and The Lighthouse (2019). He has also had voice-over roles in Finding

Nemo (2003), its sequel Finding Dory (2016), and Fantastic Mr. Fox

(2009), voice and motion capture roles in John Carter (2012) and Death

Note (2017), and vocal contributions to the video games Spider-Man

(2002), Finding Nemo (2003), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

(2004), and Beyond: Two Souls (2013).
Willem Dafoe Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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