Willem Dafoe
Acting
Born: July 22, 1955 (age 71) · Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Highest Rated
Biography
William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/ də-FOH; 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 a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, Dafoe made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). He is known for collaborating with both mainstream and auteur filmmakers, including Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Sam Raimi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Andrew Stanton, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. He received Academy Award nominations for playing a compassionate army sergeant in the war drama Platoon (1986), Max Schreck in the mystery film Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a kindly motel manager in the coming-of-age film The Florida Project (2017), and Vincent van Gogh in the biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). His other films credits include To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), Animal Factory (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), The Hunter (2011), John Carter (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), John Wick (2014), The Lighthouse (2019), Togo (2019), Poor Things (2023), and Nosferatu (2024). Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He portrayed Norman Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (2002–2007) and reprised the role in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). He has also voiced roles in the animated films Finding Nemo (2003), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), and The Boy and the Heron (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Willem Dafoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
John Wick
2014
Spider-Man
2002
Finding Nemo
2003
Spider-Man 2
2004
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
Spider-Man 3
2007
Aquaman
2018
Finding Dory
2016
American Psycho
2000
The Fault in Our Stars
2014
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
Photos (13)
Movies (167)
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Poor Things
Godwin Baxter
The Phoenician Scheme
Knave
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jopling
Spider-Man
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Albert 'the Abacus'
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Rat (voice)
Kinds of Kindness
Raymond / George / Omi
Nosferatu
Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Vulko
Spider-Man 3
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Jackson
Finding Nemo
Gill (voice)
The English Patient
David Caravaggio
American Psycho
Donald Kimball
The Aviator
Roland Sweet
The Northman
Heimir the Fool
John Wick
Marcus
The Great Wall
Ballard
Spider-Man 2
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Born on the Fourth of July
Charlie
The Legend of Ochi
Maxim
The Fault in Our Stars
Peter van Houten
Nightmare Alley
Clem Hoatley
Inside Man
John Darius
Finding Dory
Gill (voice)
Platoon
Sergeant Elias Grodin
The Lighthouse
Thomas Wake
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Klaus Daimler
Wild at Heart
Bobby Peru
Togo
Leonhard Seppala
Dog Eat Dog
Mad Dog
xXx: State of the Union
Gen. George Octavius Deckert
Speed 2: Cruise Control
Geiger
Aquaman
Nuidis Vulko
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
L
Paris Je T'aime
Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
Clear and Present Danger
John Clark
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Carson Clay
Murder on the Orient Express
Gerhard Hardman
John Carter
Tars Tarkas
A Most Wanted Man
Tommy Brue
The Florida Project
Bobby
Bad Country
Bud Carter
Asteroid City
Saltzburg Keitel
The Walker
Larry Lockner
Shadow of the Vampire
Max Schreck
What Happened to Monday
Terrence Settman
To Live and Die in L.A.
Rick Masters
The Hunter
Martin David
The Card Counter
Gordo
The Boondock Saints
Paul Smecker
Late Fame
Ed Saxberger
Motherless Brooklyn
Paul Randolph
At Eternity's Gate
Vincent van Gogh
Death Note
Ryuk (voice)
Farewell
Feeney
The Last Temptation of Christ
Jesus
Odd Thomas
Wyatt Porter
A Family Man
Ed Blackridge
Mississippi Burning
Agent Alan Ward
The Birthday Party
Marcos Timoleon
Adam Resurrected
Commandat Klein
Ripley Under Ground
Neil Murchison
The Clearing
Arnold Mack
Daybreakers
Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
Manou the Swift
Manou's Father (voice)
Finally Dawn
Rufo Priori
Auto Focus
John Carpenter
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Armando Barillo
Cry-Baby
Hateful Guard
eXistenZ
Gas
Heaven's Gate
Willy (uncredited)
Tenzing
Colonel John Hunt
Streets of Fire
Raven Shaddock
Out of the Furnace
John Petty
American Dreamz
Chief of Staff
Antichrist
He
Body of Evidence
Frank Dulaney
The Hunger
2nd Phone Booth Youth
Saturday Night
David Tebet
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Cisco
Animal Factory
Earl Copen
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Gavner Purl
Manderlay
Grace's Father
Siberia
Clint
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Detective Hank Havenhurst
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Paul Smecker (uncredited)
Basquiat
The Electrician
Affliction
Rolfe Whitehouse
Dead for a Dollar
Joe Cribbens
Fireflies in the Garden
Charles Waechter
Light Sleeper
John LeTour
Vox Lux
Narrator (voice)
The Man in My Basement
Anniston Bennett
Inside
Nemo
The Last Thing He Wanted
Richard McMahon
White Sands
Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Off Limits
Buck McGriff
Faraway, So Close!
Emit Flesti
Zero
(voice)
Flight of the Intruder
Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
Narrator (voice)
Go Go Tales
Ray Ruby
The Reckoning
Martin
Tom & Viv
Tom Eliot
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
Control
Dr. Michael Copeland
The Dust of Time
A
To Each His Own Cinema
(segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
The Souffleur
Lucius
Edges of the Lord
Priest
Lulu on the Bridge
Dr. Van Horn
Triumph of the Spirit
Salamo Arouch
Pavilion of Women
Father Andre
Anamorph
Stan Aubray
Mountain
Narrator (voice)
Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pet Shop Days
Francis
Gonzo Girl
Walker Reade
The Smile Man
Willem
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Tommaso
Tommaso
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Elephant Grass (voice)
Sculpt
2016
New Rose Hotel
X
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
Finding Satoshi
Narrator
Bullfighter
Father Ramirez
Before It Had a Name
Leslie
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
Narrator
Tomorrow You're Gone
The Buddha
Willem Dafoe
2023
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
Narrator
The Loveless
Vance
Opus Zero
Paul
Il coraggio di essere Franco
Sé stesso
New York Nights
Boyfriend
North on Evers
1992
Roadhouse 66
Johnny Harte
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
Film Actor
Miral
Eddie
The Heist
Babs against fascism badge
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
run 002
2024
Avrio Vrady
Dancing man
The Wild One
Narrator (voice)
Victory
Axel Heyst
The Night and the Moment
The Writer
Father
James Verdun
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
Hunter (voice)
Brace Up!
Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Interior (The Spectator)
Narrator
White Homeland Commando
Karl
My Hindu Friend
Diego Fairman
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
Narrator
River
Narrator
Grande Envie
Count
Nelson Algren Live
Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
O Panama
1985
A Woman
Max Oliver
Sanctuary
Narrator
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018
Atalanta Strategy
Immigration Staff
Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993
TV Shows (8)
The Simpsons
The Commandant / Jack Lassen (voice) · 1 eps
The Simpsons
Commandant (voice) · 1 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Zylander Quark · 1 eps
The Colbert Report
1 eps
The Hitchhiker
Jeffrey Hunt · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
1 eps
The Kingdom
Grand Duc · 3 eps
Wintergasten
1 eps
Self / Appearances (64)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self · 1 eps
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 2 eps
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest · 2 eps
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest · 1 eps
The Daily Show
Self - Guest · 3 eps
Conan
Self - Guest · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host · 1 eps
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · 1 eps
The Graham Norton Show
Self · 1 eps
Hot Ones
Self · 1 eps
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · 1 eps
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self · 1 eps
The Oscars
Self · 2 eps
The Oscars
Self - Presenter · 1 eps
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Self · 1 eps
Kulturplatz
Self · 1 eps
Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue
Self · 1 eps
The Directors
Self · 1 eps
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
Self
Love, Antosha
Self
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 eps
Mostra, Venise
Self · 1 eps
Fishing with John
Self · 1 eps
On the Set: Spider-Man 3
Self
Overnight
Self
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
Self
Don't F*#% With John Wick
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
Self · 1 eps
Voom Portraits
Self
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Self
The Spider-Man Story
Self
Can Creativity Save the World?
Self
Spider-Mania
Self
Friedkin Uncut
Self
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
Self
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
Self
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
Self
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Self / Grand Duc
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self
The Making of Daybreakers
Self
Sportin' Life
Self
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
Self
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
Self / Klaus D.
Piazza Vittorio
Himself
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
Self
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
Self
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
Self
Blast 'Em
Self (uncredited)
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
Self
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
Self
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
Self
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
Self
Brothers in Arms
Self
Rockets Redglare!
Self
Mind the Gap
Self
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
Self
This Is an Adventure
Self
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
Self
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
Self
Cannes: All Access
Self
Maresco / Pasolini
Self
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
Self
