[145] Also in 2013, Dafoe played the devil in a Mercedes-Benz Super Bowl commercial[146] and starred in three short student films as part of a competition sponsored by Jameson Irish Whiskey. [82] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. He studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin but left school to join Theater X, an experimental Wisconsin-based theatre troupe with which Dafoe toured for four years. [133][134][135] Dafoe starred alongside Marina Abramovi and Gretchen Mol in the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi, which premiered at The Lowry in 2011. Esteban! [85] Dafoe lent his voice and likeness to the James Bond video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (2004) as the villain Nikolai Diavolo. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. Get him out of the fucking water! Well, you traveled a long way for "I don't know," sonny. 3 Antichrist (2009) Nordisk Film Distribution. : : William James Dafoe (/ d f o /; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Esteban was eaten! : Oh Do it again. : If you're eating pasta for a week, eventually, you crave something else. It had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where the film and Dafoe's performance received high praise. Willem Dafoe was born on July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin as one of eight children of Muriel and William. [183][184] Also, like Alfred Molina (who reprised his role as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in the film), Dafoe was digitally de-aged for the character's 2002 self. The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. *Chewed*! Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. I spend a lot of time in Germany so it's in my head. To avoid having his role in the film prematurely revealed, Dafoe wore a cloak on-set to conceal his appearance from being outed publicly. Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. Ned Plimpton Willem was born William James Dafoe on July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, to William Alfred Dafoe, doctor, and his wife Muriel Isabel. : Willem Dafoe is widely rumored to be the owner of Hollywood's largest package. Super durable and water-resistant. [51] In 1995, he played an 18th-century writer in the period drama The Night and the Moment. Moved to New York in 1977 and soon after founded the Wooster Group which has toured America and the world,. There's a funny perception that I play bad guys, but if you really know my movies, the big and small ones, the truth is often I play good guys. Klaus Daimler Dafoe flourished as an actor in such big-budget mainstream films as Spider-Man (2002) and three of its sequels (2004, 2007, and 2021), in which he played the comic villain the Green Goblin; the animated Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel, Finding Dory (2016), for which he provided the voice of a fish; and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Wes Andersons comedy about an idiosyncratic marine documentary crew. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. [185] Peter Travers of Good Morning America and Jade King at The Gamer praised Dafoe and Molina, with King asserting that the two "stole the show as Green Goblin and Doc Ock" and described the depictions as brilliant. Esteban! [71] The Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opined felt the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance". Fans are cheering for several big surprises while seeing "Spider-Man: No Way Home," but long after seeing the film one thing's clear: People are loving Willem Dafoe's scene-stealing performance as Norman Osborn aka the Green Goblin. Osborn is a family friend of Spider-Man's secret identity Peter Parker as Osborn's son, Harry Osborn (played by James Franco), is a close friend of Parker. [144] Dafoe next appeared in Lars von Trier's two-part erotic art film Nymphomaniac, his third and final film release of 2013. He was also nominated for his portrayal of the 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh during his last years in At Eternitys Gate (2018). [21], Following a brief appearance in the horror film The Hunger (1983), Dafoe again played the leader of a biker gang in Walter Hill's 1984 action film Streets of Fire. [81], Later in 2002, Dafoe starred with Greg Kinnear in Paul Schrader's biographical film Auto Focus, Dafoe's third collaboration with Schrader. [157] Dafoe starred in the late Brazilian director's Hctor Babenco's final film My Hindu Friend (2015) as a film director close to death who befriends a Hindu 8-year-old boy while hospitalized. I never act. : [73], Dafoe took on two leading roles in 2001, both of which were as priests. [13], After attending Appleton East High School, Dafoe studied drama at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee,[14] but left after a year and a half to join the experimental theater company Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to New York City in 1976. No! I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. Dafoe co-starred in the film as the father of Bryce Dallas Howard's character, a woman who discovers a plantation still thriving as if slavery had never been abolished. That was over 17 years ago in 2004. Casting people feel that they have to get someone who looks a certain way, and I think that the jury is still out whether people find me attractive or not. [55] In the period drama Victorywhich was filmed in 1994 and premiered in Europe in 1996, but was not released until 1998Dafoe played a European living on an island in the Southeast Asia who becomes the target of redemption after preventing a woman, played by Irne Jacob, from being raped. [107] He also reprised his role again as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 3 (2007) in a brief cameo. Director Julian Schnabel Writers Jean-Claude Carrire Louise Kugelberg Julian Schnabel Stars Willem Dafoe Rupert Friend Oscar Isaac See production, box office & company info Watch on Freevee Watch Free on Freevee More watch options Dafoe was critically lauded for his performances in a number of controversial films released in the late 1980s. But they're good guys that are flawed, good guys who are outside of society. Encounter with highly abnormal shark-like fish! [34] As with The Last Temptation of Christ, the film was the subject of controversy, this time among African-American activists who criticized its fictionalization of events. married to Giada Colagrande (2005present), This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Dafoe, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Willem Dafoe. Klaus Daimler In 1977 he moved to New York City and joined the Performance Group. Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. After studying at 'Appleton East High School,' he enrolled at the 'University of Wisconsin' in Milwaukee to study drama when he was 17. The same year, Dafoe played Vincent van Gogh in the biographical drama At Eternity's Gate, for which he received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination among other awards and accolades. Sticker types may be printed and shipped from different locations. Today the actor is 66 years old. I shot it dorsally with a homing dart! It's like anything. His performance drew raves from film critics. He played an actor spending his last hours on Earth before the end of the world with his much-younger lover (played by Shanyn Leigh). American actor, comedian, writer, and director. Dafoe appears in Wes Anderson's ensemble period comedy The French Dispatch and Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir psychological thriller Nightmare Alley, which were both released in 2021, and Robert Eggers's historical epic The Northman, released in 2022. [118] Dafoe next had a small role in the French thriller Farewell as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and co-starred opposite Michael Shannon in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, in which he played a detective attempting to figure out why a troubled man killed his own mother. At the same time, when you arrive, you've got to be able to abandon those preconceptions and be mercurial. Dafoes numerous credits from 2016 included the crime drama Dog Eat Dog and the fantasy thriller The Great Wall, about monsters attacking the Great Wall of China. He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982). | Steve Zissou : I said get your ass the hell off of my boat! Yeah? [80] Steven Scaife at Vice wrote that Dafoe's Goblin "represents everything thats fun about superhero villains, as well as everything thats great about Raimi's campy films", also commending Dafoe's voice and body language, which helped overcome the bulky Green Goblin costume that he compared to that of a Power Rangers villain. You said cross the line if. Is the second youngest of eight siblings. [27] Los Angeles Times writer Sheila Benson praised his performance and found it to be "particularly fine" to see Dafoe play "something other than a psychopath". Matte finish. Because no one can mak. [40] In the same year, Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern. Steve Zissou [camera zooms in on Steve's face - his eyes are dilated ridiculously large]. That's the craft, and it's a bit like voodoo, because you don't know exactly how you do it. [124] Between October and December 2009, Dafoe appeared in Richard Foreman's surrealist play Idiot Savant at The Public Theater. He's so dedicated I love it 12:07 AM - 16 Dec 2021 Reply. When it starts out in the beginning, I think it's purely a social thing. [103] Dafoe starred as the owner of a strip club in Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales (2007); Manohla Dargis praised his "twitchy, sympathetic performance" in the film. Dafoe played a criminal who engages in a robbery with Cage's character before demonstrating his dark side. [122] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. And one more thing: It's the Steve Zissou show, not the Ned show. They have so much to protect that they have to be very careful, thus very certain every step of the way, and that leaves out a lot of work of any freshness. I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. [130], Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011 was in Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his third film with Ferrara. I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy, besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. Does it make you happy? 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[195], Dafoe is a pescetarian, believing that "animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet". [143] In Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), starring Christian Bale, Dafoe played the supporting role of a bookmaker running an illegal gambling operation. In the simplest terms, it's a pleasure to borrow someone else's body and someone else's life. [70] Shadow of the Vampire, his final film of the year, saw him portray a fictionalized version of the German actor Max Schreck during the production of the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, in which Schreck starred as the vampire Count Orlok. They did so the following afternoon at a small ceremony with two friends as witnesses. Other Oscar-nominated films include Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and At Eternity's Gate (2018). The film received mixed reviews, although Peter Travers felt that he added a note of "vulnerability to the menace he has made his stock in trade". Dafoe played the caretaker of a house that is inherited by the lover of its deceased owner, engaging in a sexual relationship with her. They're odd or they're criminals, but morally they tend to function as good people. [87] Dafoe reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing to his son Harry in an hallucination. "[45][46], Dafoe next starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna. [75], Dafoe played the supervillain the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire as the titular Marvel Comics superhero. [126] Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom,[129] and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States. [191] The couple worked together on her films Before It Had a Name and A Woman. Sometimes I envy their power and money, and other times I feel sorry for them since they have a gun to their head. [25] He enjoyed the opportunity to play a heroic role and said the film gave him a chance to display his versatility, saying "I think all characters live in you. Dafoe co-starred as a man who kidnaps his former boss (played by Robert Redford) in exchange for a ransom. Klaus Daimler As a 12-year old, he attended the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, better known as the Ice Bowl, one of the most famous games in pro football history. There he met the actress and director Elizabeth LeCompte, who founded the deconstructionist theatre company the Wooster Group, with which Dafoe later performed. : Steve Zissou : I doubt it. While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of our culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. [119][120] Dafoe played a former vampire who has a cure that can save the human species in the science fiction horror film Daybreakers, which starred Ethan Hawke as a vampire hematologist. - On his acting style. Brother, Donald Dafoe, is an accomplished transplant surgeon. Sometimes I have a desire to control what I do a little bit, especially when I do a smaller movie. Steve Zissou : The Hollywood Reporter thought that Dafoe appeared to think he was "in a pantomime",[102] while a New York Times reviewer felt he was "amusing" in the role. The film was excoriated by a Variety reviewer as a "wannabe haunted house tale laced with silly sex scenes" and an "embarrassment". Steve Zissou Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. I've always thought of you two as my dads. And it may be temporary, and you have no illusion." The film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office, with some audience members laughing during the sex scenes. Roger Ebert praised Dafoe's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman opined that "even when the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's grimly compelling performance. Yes, because it's logical. The star of the film, Tom Holland, said that he got scared after bumping into Dafoe by accident one day on set and only then found out about his role in the film. He is of mostly German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. Many of his antecedents resided in Canada. [117] During an interview with L Magazine, it was revealed Dafoe had a stand in for scenes where his character's penis was on screen as his own was too big. : Steve Zissou [179], In February 2021, it was announced that Dafoe will be co-starring alongside Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things.[180][181][182]. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. 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