Willem Dafoe
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1955-07-22 (70 years old)
Place of Birth
Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Willem Dafoe
Biography
William James "Willem" Dafoe is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group.
He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon (1986), followed by nominations for his roles in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). He also gained acclaim and wide recognition for his roles as Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and as the supervillain Norman Osborn 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).
His other film appearance include roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Light Sleeper (1992), Body of Evidence (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), Affliction (1997), New Rose Hotel(1998), Existenz (1999), The Boondock Saints (1999), American Psycho (2000), Auto Focus (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Inside Man (2006), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Antichrist (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Nymphomaniac (2013), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Aquaman (2018), The Lighthouse (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021), Poor Things (2023), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).
Known For
Acting
The Man in My Basement
as Anniston Bennett
Tropico
as Raymond
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Tenzing
as Colonel John Hunt
Cuddle
as Dante
(2026)
(2025)
The Legend of Ochi
as Maxim
(2025)
The Phoenician Scheme
as Knave
(2025)
The Birthday Party
as Marcos Timoleon
(2025)
Zero
as (voice)
(2025)
Late Fame
as Ed Saxberger
(2025)
Grande Envie
as Count
(2025)
(2025)
Avrio Vrady
as Dancing man
(2024)
Nosferatu
as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
(2024)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
as Jackson
(2024)
Kinds of Kindness
as Raymond / George / Omi
(2024)
Saturday Night
as David Tebet
(2024)
Finally Dawn
as Rufo Priori
(2024)
(2024)
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
as Self
(2024)
(2024)
Da Suisa - Tributo
as Himself
(2023)
Poor Things
as Godwin Baxter
(2023)
Inside
as Nemo
(2023)
Asteroid City
as Saltzburg Keitel
(2023)
Gonzo Girl
as Walker Reade
(2023)
Pet Shop Days
as Francis
(2023)
The Wild One
as Narrator (voice)
(2023)
(2023)
Interior (The Spectator)
as Narrator
(2022)
The Northman
as Heimir the Fool
(2022)
(2022)
Dead for a Dollar
as Joe Cribbens
(2022)
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
as Self / Grand Duc
(2022)
(2022)
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
as Film Actor
(2022)
Finding Satoshi
as Narrator
(2022)
(2022)
Il coraggio di essere Franco
as Sé stesso
(2021)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
(2021)
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Vulko
(2021)
Nightmare Alley
as Clem Hoatley
(2021)
The French Dispatch
as Albert 'the Abacus'
(2021)
The Card Counter
as Gordo
(2021)
River
as Narrator
(2021)
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
as Self
(2021)
Maresco / Pasolini
as Self
(2020)
The Last Thing He Wanted
as Richard McMahon
(2020)
Siberia
as Clint
(2020)
Tommaso
as Tommaso
(2020)
(2020)
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
(2020)
Sportin' Life
as Self
(2020)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self
(2020)
(2019)
The Lighthouse
as Thomas Wake
(2019)
Togo
as Leonhard Seppala
(2019)
Motherless Brooklyn
as Paul Randolph
(2019)
Manou the Swift
as Manou's Father (voice)
(2019)
Love, Antosha
as Self
(2019)
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
(2018)
Aquaman
as Nuidis Vulko
(2018)
Vox Lux
as Narrator (voice)
(2018)
At Eternity's Gate
as Vincent van Gogh
(2018)
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
(2018)
Brothers in Arms
as Self
(2018)
Opus Zero
as Paul
(2018)
(2018)
(2017)
Murder on the Orient Express
as Gerhard Hardman
(2017)
What Happened to Monday
as Terrence Settman
(2017)
The Florida Project
as Bobby
(2017)
Death Note
as Ryuk (voice)
(2017)
Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
(2017)
(2017)
(2017)
Sanctuary
as Narrator
(2017)
Piazza Vittorio
as Himself
(2016)
The Great Wall
as Ballard
(2016)
Finding Dory
as Gill (voice)
(2016)
A Family Man
as Ed Blackridge
(2016)
Dog Eat Dog
as Mad Dog
(2016)
My Hindu Friend
as Diego Fairman
(2016)
Father
as James Verdun
(2016)
Mind the Gap
as Self
(2016)
Nelson Algren Live
as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
(2016)
(2015)
Don't F*#% With John Wick
as Self
(2015)
(2015)
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
as Narrator
(2015)
(2014)
John Wick
as Marcus
(2014)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Jopling
(2014)
The Fault in Our Stars
as Peter van Houten
(2014)
A Most Wanted Man
as Tommy Brue
(2014)
Bad Country
as Bud Carter
(2014)
Pasolini
as Pier Paolo Pasolini
(2014)
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
as (archive footage)
(2013)
(2013)
Odd Thomas
as Wyatt Porter
(2013)
Out of the Furnace
as John Petty
(2013)
(2013)
The Smile Man
as Willem
(2013)
Saving Norman
as Lionel Pembrooke
(2013)
Love's Routine
as Barry
(2013)
The Benaki Museum
as Narrator (voice)
(2012)
John Carter
as Tars Tarkas
(2012)
Tomorrow You're Gone
as The Buddha
(2012)
4:44 Last Day on Earth
as Cisco
(2012)
(2011)
The Hunter
as Martin David
(2010)
Daybreakers
as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
(2010)
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
as Detective Hank Havenhurst
(2010)
Miral
as Eddie
(2010)
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
as Narrator
(2010)
A Woman
as Max Oliver
(2010)
The Making of Daybreakers
as Self
(2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Rat (voice)
(2009)
Antichrist
as He
(2009)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Gavner Purl
(2009)
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
as Paul Smecker
(2009)
Farewell
as Feeney
(2008)
Fireflies in the Garden
as Charles Waechter
(2008)
Adam Resurrected
as Commandat Klein
(2008)
The Dust of Time
as A
(2007)
Spider-Man 3
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
(2007)
Mr. Bean's Holiday
as Carson Clay
(2007)
Go Go Tales
as Ray Ruby
(2007)
To Each His Own Cinema
as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
(2007)
Anamorph
as Stan Aubray
(2007)
The Walker
as Larry Lockner
(2007)
Voom Portraits
as Self
(2007)
Cannes: All Access
as Self
(2007)
The Procedure
as Christopher
(2006)
Inside Man
as John Darius
(2006)
Paris Je T'aime
as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
(2006)
American Dreamz
as Chief of Staff
(2005)
xXx: State of the Union
as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
(2005)
Manderlay
as Grace's Father
(2005)
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
(2005)
Ripley Under Ground
as Neil Murchison
(2005)
Before It Had a Name
as Leslie
(2005)
This Is an Adventure
as Self
(2005)
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
as Self / Klaus D.
(2005)
(2004)
Spider-Man 2
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
(2004)
The Aviator
as Roland Sweet
(2004)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Klaus Daimler
(2004)
The Clearing
as Arnold Mack
(2004)
Control
as Dr. Michael Copeland
(2004)
The Reckoning
as Martin
(2004)
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
as Narrator (voice)
(2004)
The Misbehavers
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
Finding Nemo
as Gill (voice)
(2003)
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
as Armando Barillo
(2003)
Overnight
as Self
(2003)
(2003)
(2003)
Rockets Redglare!
as Self
(2002)
Spider-Man
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
(2002)
Auto Focus
as John Carpenter
(2002)
(2002)
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
as Hunter (voice)
(2002)
Spider-Mania
as Self
(2002)
The Spider-Man Story
as Self
(2001)
Edges of the Lord
as Priest
(2001)
Pavilion of Women
as Father Andre
(2001)
(2000)
American Psycho
as Donald Kimball
(2000)
Animal Factory
as Earl Copen
(2000)
Shadow of the Vampire
as Max Schreck
(2000)
Bullfighter
as Father Ramirez
(1999)
eXistenZ
as Gas
(1999)
The Boondock Saints
as Paul Smecker
(1999)
New Rose Hotel
as X
(1999)
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
as Narrator
(1998)
Lulu on the Bridge
as Dr. Van Horn
(1998)
Abel/Asia
as Self (archival footage)
(1997)
Speed 2: Cruise Control
as Geiger
(1997)
Affliction
as Rolfe Whitehouse
(1997)
Wrong Guys
as Jack Straw
(1996)
The English Patient
as David Caravaggio
(1996)
Basquiat
as The Electrician
(1996)
Victory
as Axel Heyst
(1995)
The Night and the Moment
as Lo scrittore
(1994)
Clear and Present Danger
as John Clark
(1994)
Tom & Viv
as Tom Eliot
(1993)
Body of Evidence
as Frank Dulaney
(1993)
Faraway, So Close!
as Emit Flesti
(1993)
White Homeland Commando
as Karl
(1993)
Brace Up!
as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
(1993)
(1992)
Light Sleeper
as John LeTour
(1992)
White Sands
as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
(1992)
(1991)
Flight of the Intruder
as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
(1990)
Wild at Heart
as Bobby Peru
(1990)
Cry-Baby
as Hateful Guard
(1989)
Born on the Fourth of July
as Charlie
(1989)
Triumph of the Spirit
as Salamo Arouch
(1988)
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Alan Ward
(1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Jesus
(1988)
Off Limits
as Buck McGriff
(1988)
(1987)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as Elephant Grass (voice)
(1986)
Platoon
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
(1985)
To Live and Die in L.A.
as Rick Masters
(1985)
(1984)
Streets of Fire
as Raven Shaddock
(1984)
Roadhouse 66
as Johnny Harte
(1984)
New York Nights
as Boyfriend
(1984)
The Loveless
as Vance
(1984)
Atalanta Strategy
as Immigration Staff
(1983)
The Hunger
as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
(1980)
Heaven's Gate
as Willy (uncredited)
Crew
Tropico
Producer
(2020)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Associate Producer
(2018)
(2005)
Before It Had a Name
Screenplay
(1999)
New Rose Hotel
Co-Producer