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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 22, 1955
Place of Birth
Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Also Known As
- William Dafoe, Jr.
- William J. Dafoe
- William James "Willem" Dafoe
- William James Dafoe
Willem Dafoe
4.5 Popularity
Biography
William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) 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
Credits
Werwulf
2026
0.0
Pet Shop Days
as Francis
2025
4.5
The Man in My Basement
as Anniston Bennett
2025
5.3
The Souffleur
as Lucius
2025
0.0
Late Fame
as Ed Saxberger
2025
6.5
The Birthday Party
as Marcos Timoleon
2025
0.0
Avrio Vrady
as Dancing man
2025
0.0
The Phoenician Scheme
as Knave
2025
6.6
Grande Envie
as Count
2025
0.0
The Legend of Ochi
as Maxim
2025
6.2
Zero
as (voice)
2025
5.6
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
as Self
2024
5.5
Nosferatu
as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
2024
6.7
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2024
5.0
run 002
2024
0.0
Saturday Night
as David Tebet
2024
6.7
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
as Jackson
2024
7.0
Kinds of Kindness
as Raymond / George / Omi
2024
6.5
Can Creativity Save the World?
as Self
2024
0.0
Finally Dawn
as Rufo Priori
2024
5.9
Poor Things
as Godwin Baxter
2023
7.7
Interior (The Spectator)
as Narrator
2023
0.0
Willem Dafoe
2023
5.0
Gonzo Girl
as Walker Reade
2023
1.3
Asteroid City
as Saltzburg Keitel
2023
6.4
The Wild One
as Narrator (voice)
2023
6.0
Inside
as Nemo
2023
5.6
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022
0.0
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
as Self / Grand Duc
2022
0.0
Dead for a Dollar
as Joe Cribbens
2022
5.8
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
as Self
2022
8.2
Mostra, Venise
as Self
2022
0.0
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
as Film Actor
2022
3.0
Il coraggio di essere Franco
as Sé stesso
2022
5.6
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
as Self
2022
6.8
The Northman
as Heimir the Fool
2022
7.0
Finding Satoshi
as Narrator
2022
8.0
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
as Self
2022
0.0
Spider-Man: No Way Home
as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
2021
7.9
Nightmare Alley
as Clem Hoatley
2021
7.0
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
as Albert 'the Abacus'
2021
7.0
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
as Self
2021
6.0
River
as Narrator
2021
6.1
The Card Counter
as Gordo
2021
6.1
Maresco / Pasolini
as Self
2021
0.0
Zack Snyder's Justice League
as Vulko
2021
8.1
🎬
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
as Self
2020
10.0
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self
2020
7.0
Sportin' Life
as Self
2020
4.2
Wim Wenders, Desperado
as Self
2020
7.7
Siberia
as Clint
2020
4.9
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
6.0
The Last Thing He Wanted
as Richard McMahon
2020
4.9
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
as Self
2020
6.9
Tommaso
as Tommaso
2020
5.7
Togo
as Leonhard Seppala
2019
8.1
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
2019
6.5
Motherless Brooklyn
as Paul Randolph
2019
6.7
The Lighthouse
as Thomas Wake
2019
7.5
Love, Antosha
as Self
2019
7.4
Manou the Swift
as Manou's Father (voice)
2019
6.4
Opus Zero
as Paul
2018
5.5
Aquaman
as Nuidis Vulko
2018
6.9
At Eternity's Gate
as Vincent van Gogh
2018
7.0
Brothers in Arms
as Self
2018
5.9
Friedkin Uncut
as Self
2018
7.0
Vox Lux
as Narrator (voice)
2018
5.8
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018
0.0
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
as Self
2018
8.3
Mountain
as Narrator (voice)
2017
6.9
Murder on the Orient Express
as Gerhard Hardman
2017
6.7
NHK WORLD PRIME
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
9.0
The Florida Project
as Bobby
2017
7.4
Piazza Vittorio
as Himself
2017
6.5
Death Note
as Ryuk (voice)
2017
4.3
What Happened to Monday
as Terrence Settman
2017
7.2
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
as Self
2017
2.0
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
as Self
2017
7.3
Sanctuary
as Narrator
2017
0.0
The Great Wall
as Ballard
2016
6.0
Dog Eat Dog
as Mad Dog
2016
5.1
Father
as James Verdun
2016
4.2
A Family Man
as Ed Blackridge
2016
6.7
Sculpt
2016
1.0
Finding Dory
as Gill (voice)
2016
7.0
Nelson Algren Live
as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
2016
0.0
My Hindu Friend
as Diego Fairman
2016
4.0
Mind the Gap
as Self
2016
7.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
as Narrator
2015
7.4
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
as Self
2015
0.0
Don't F*#% With John Wick
as Self
2015
7.7
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
as Self
2015
7.2
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
John Wick
as Marcus
2014
7.5
Bad Country
as Bud Carter
2014
5.5
Pasolini
as Pier Paolo Pasolini
2014
5.7
🎬
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
as (archive footage)
2014
4.0
A Most Wanted Man
as Tommy Brue
2014
6.5
The Fault in Our Stars
as Peter van Houten
2014
7.6
The Grand Budapest Hotel
as Jopling
2014
8.0
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Benaki Museum
as Narrator (voice)
2013
0.0
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
as L
2013
6.7
Out of the Furnace
as John Petty
2013
6.6
🎬
Love's Routine
as Barry
2013
6.4
The Smile Man
as Willem
2013
7.4
🎬
Saving Norman
as Lionel Pembrooke
2013
6.5
Odd Thomas
as Wyatt Porter
2013
6.9
Tomorrow You're Gone
as The Buddha
2012
4.4
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
as Self
2012
6.5
4:44 Last Day on Earth
as Cisco
2012
4.7
John Carter
as Tars Tarkas
2012
6.4
The Hunter
as Martin David
2011
6.6
Conan
as Self
2010
7.1
Miral
as Eddie
2010
5.7
A Woman
as Max Oliver
2010
4.3
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
as Detective Hank Havenhurst
2010
6.1
The Making of Daybreakers
as Self
2010
7.0
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
as Narrator
2010
0.0
Daybreakers
as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
2010
6.3
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
as Paul Smecker
2009
6.0
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
as Gavner Purl
2009
5.8
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Rat (voice)
2009
7.8
Farewell
as Feeney
2009
6.5
Antichrist
as He
2009
6.6
The Dust of Time
as A
2008
6.4
Adam Resurrected
as Commandat Klein
2008
6.1
Fireflies in the Garden
as Charles Waechter
2008
6.2
Wintergasten
2007
0.0
To Each His Own Cinema
as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
2007
6.5
Cannes: All Access
as Self
2007
3.8
Voom Portraits
as Self
2007
10.0
Anamorph
as Stan Aubray
2007
5.1
🎬
The Procedure
as Christopher
2007
4.6
Go Go Tales
as Ray Ruby
2007
5.6
Spider-Man 3
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2007
6.4
Mr. Bean's Holiday
as Carson Clay
2007
6.4
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Walker
as Larry Lockner
2007
5.2
Paris Je T'aime
as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
2006
6.8
Inside Man
as John Darius
2006
7.4
American Dreamz
as Chief of Staff
2006
5.0
Ripley Under Ground
as Neil Murchison
2005
5.5
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
Before It Had a Name
as Leslie
2005
3.3
Manderlay
as Grace's Father
2005
6.9
This Is an Adventure
as Self
2005
6.5
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
as Self
2005
6.2
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
2005
4.1
xXx: State of the Union
as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
2005
5.1
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
as Self / Klaus D.
2005
5.9
The Aviator
as Roland Sweet
2004
7.2
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
as Klaus Daimler
2004
7.1
Control
as Dr. Michael Copeland
2004
6.1
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
0.0
🎬
The Misbehavers
as Self
2004
0.0
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
as Narrator (voice)
2004
7.2
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
The Clearing
as Arnold Mack
2004
5.8
Spider-Man 2
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2004
7.3
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
as Self
2004
0.0
The Reckoning
as Martin
2004
6.4
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
as Self
2003
8.0
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
8.0
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
as Armando Barillo
2003
6.3
Overnight
as Self
2003
6.3
Finding Nemo
as Gill (voice)
2003
7.8
Rockets Redglare!
as Self
2003
6.0
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
as Hunter (voice)
2002
1.0
Auto Focus
as John Carpenter
2002
6.4
🎬
The Spider-Man Story
as Self
2002
0.0
Spider-Man
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2002
7.3
Spider-Mania
as Self
2002
5.4
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
as Self
2002
5.6
Edges of the Lord
as Priest
2001
6.4
Pavilion of Women
as Father Andre
2001
5.4
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
as Self
2001
8.5
Animal Factory
as Earl Copen
2000
6.3
Bullfighter
as Father Ramirez
2000
2.6
Shadow of the Vampire
as Max Schreck
2000
6.7
American Psycho
as Donald Kimball
2000
7.4
eXistenZ
as Gas
1999
6.8
New Rose Hotel
as X
1999
5.2
The Boondock Saints
as Paul Smecker
1999
7.3
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Lulu on the Bridge
as Dr. Van Horn
1998
5.8
Affliction
as Rolfe Whitehouse
1998
6.3
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
6.7
Speed 2: Cruise Control
as Geiger
1997
4.6
🎬
Wrong Guys
as Jack Straw
1997
0.0
Victory
as Axel Heyst
1996
4.8
The English Patient
as David Caravaggio
1996
7.2
Basquiat
as The Electrician
1996
6.6
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
The Night and the Moment
as Lo scrittore
1995
4.3
The Kingdom
as Grand Duc
1994
7.5
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Clear and Present Danger
as John Clark
1994
6.6
Tom & Viv
as Tom Eliot
1994
6.1
Faraway, So Close!
as Emit Flesti
1993
6.9
Brace Up!
as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
1993
10.0
White Homeland Commando
as Karl
1993
10.0
Body of Evidence
as Frank Dulaney
1993
5.0
Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993
0.0
Light Sleeper
as John LeTour
1992
6.7
White Sands
as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
1992
5.9
North on Evers
1992
7.2
Fishing with John
as Self
1991
7.5
Flight of the Intruder
as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
1991
5.7
Wild at Heart
as Bobby Peru
1990
7.0
Cry-Baby
as Hateful Guard
1990
6.5
Born on the Fourth of July
as Charlie
1989
7.0
The Simpsons
as The Commandant / Jack Lassen (voice)
1989
8.0
The Simpsons
as Commandant (voice)
1989
8.0
Triumph of the Spirit
as Salamo Arouch
1989
6.6
Mississippi Burning
as Agent Alan Ward
1988
7.7
🎬
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
as Self
1988
4.0
The Last Temptation of Christ
as Jesus
1988
7.2
Off Limits
as Buck McGriff
1988
5.6
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
as Elephant Grass (voice)
1987
7.1
Platoon
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
1986
7.7
To Live and Die in L.A.
as Rick Masters
1985
7.1
O Panama
1985
6.0
Roadhouse 66
as Johnny Harte
1984
5.2
Streets of Fire
as Raven Shaddock
1984
6.9
New York Nights
as Boyfriend
1984
2.4
The Loveless
as Vance
1984
5.7
Atalanta Strategy
as Immigration Staff
1984
0.0
The Hitchhiker
as Jeffrey Hunt
1983
6.1
The Hunger
as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
1983
6.6
Heaven's Gate
as Willy (uncredited)
1980
6.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Oscars
as Self - Presenter
1953
7.0
🎬
Tropico
as Raymond
N/A
0.0
🎬
Tenzing
as Colonel John Hunt
N/A
0.0
American Nails
N/A
0.0
The Sleeping Shepherd
N/A
0.0
🎬
Cuddle
as Dante
N/A
0.0
🎬
A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
N/A
0.0