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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 11, 1965
Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
- Embeth Jean Davidtz
- امبت دیویتز
Embeth Davidtz
2.6 Popularity
Biography
Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men. In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The film had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, in Lafayette, Indiana, to South African parents John and Jean, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. The family later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then to South Africa when Davidtz was nine years old Davidtz has Dutch, English, and French ancestry. She had to learn Afrikaans before attending school classes in South Africa, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University. Davidtz graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983 and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. In 1992, Davidtz played the part of Sheila in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness alongside Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. The third movie in the Evil Dead franchise would eventually become a big cult classic worldwide. In 1993, Davidtz played the role of Helen Hirsch in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. In 1995, Davidtz had a central role in the fact-based film Murder in the First, and the Merchant Ivory Productions Feast of July.
Known For
7.8
Nicola Fuller
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025
6.6
Heather Turner
Retribution
2023
7.0
Amanda
Tales of the Walking Dead
2022
6.3
Judith
Not Okay
2022
6.3
Adult Maddox
Old
2021
8.6
Mrs. Campbell
Love, Victor
2020
7.7
Paige Jacobs
The Morning Show
2019
🎬
0.0
Self (archive footage)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018
0.0
Self
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
6.7
Natasha Lytess
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
2015
Credits
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
as Nicola Fuller
2025
7.8
Retribution
as Heather Turner
2023
6.6
Tales of the Walking Dead
as Amanda
2022
7.0
Not Okay
as Judith
2022
6.3
Old
as Adult Maddox
2021
6.3
Love, Victor
as Mrs. Campbell
2020
8.6
The Morning Show
as Paige Jacobs
2019
7.7
🎬
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as Self (archive footage)
2018
0.0
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as Self
2018
0.0
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
as Natasha Lytess
2015
6.7
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as Self
2014
0.0
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Mary Parker
2014
6.5
Paranoia
as Judith Bolton
2013
5.7
Ray Donovan
as Sonia Kovitzky
2013
7.5
Europa Report
as Dr. Samantha Unger
2013
6.3
🎬
Miracle Rising: South Africa
as Self
2013
8.5
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Mary Parker
2012
6.7
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
2011
7.4
3 Backyards
as The Actress
2010
4.3
Winged Creatures
as Lydia Jaspersen
2009
5.9
In Treatment
as Amy
2008
7.6
Californication
as Felicia Koons
2007
7.6
Mad Men
as Rebecca Pryce
2007
8.1
Fracture
as Jennifer Crawford
2007
7.3
Junebug
as Madeleine
2005
6.5
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
as Self
2005
5.5
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
as Herself
2005
4.5
Grey's Anatomy
as Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
2005
8.2
Grey's Anatomy
as Nancy Shepherd
2005
8.2
The Emperor's Club
as Elizabeth
2002
7.1
Shackleton
as Rosalind Chetwynd
2002
7.1
Thir13en Ghosts
as Kalina
2001
6.3
Scrubs
as Maddie
2001
8.0
Citizen Baines
as Ellen Baines Croland
2001
0.0
The Hole
as Dr. Philippa Horwood
2001
6.2
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Natasha
2001
6.7
Bicentennial Man
as Little Miss / Portia
1999
7.3
Mansfield Park
as Mary Crawford
1999
6.7
Last Rites
as Dr. Lauren Riggs
1999
5.8
Simon Magus
as Leah
1999
7.3
The Gingerbread Man
as Mallory Doss
1998
5.6
Fallen
as Gretta Milano
1998
6.8
The Garden of Redemption
as Adriana
1997
0.0
Matilda
as Miss Honey
1996
7.2
Feast of July
as Bella Ford
1995
5.5
Murder in the First
as Mary McCasslin
1995
7.1
Schindler's List
as Helen Hirsch
1993
8.6
Deadly Matrimony
as Dianne Masters
1992
5.3
Army of Darkness
as Sheila
1992
7.3
Till Death Us Do Part
as Katherine Palliko
1992
6.7
🎬
The Night of the 19th
as Tessa van Dyk
1991
0.0
Sweet Murder
1990
3.0
A Private Life
as Older Karen
1989
0.0
Mutator
as Jennifer
1989
3.3
🎬
The Venery of Samantha Bird
as Carol Minot
N/A
0.0