Willem Dafoe
William "Willem" James Dafoe (born July 22, 1955 in Appleton , Wisconsin ) is an American actor .
Life
Willem Dafoe is the second youngest of eight children born to a surgeon and a nurse. He says he has German , English , Irish , Scottish and French roots. Dafoe began acting as a teenager and at the age of 17 went to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to study drama. The lessons soon became too theoretical for him, however, and he joined the experimental Theater X , with which he soon toured Europe and the United States.
In 1977 he moved to New York and became a member of the Wooster Group , of which he is still a member. The head of the ensemble, Elisabeth LeCompte , became his partner. In 1982 their son Jack was born. In 1981 he played his first role after all the legendary Western-flop Heaven's Gate by Michael Cimino . Dafoe's first success came five years later with the role of selfless sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama Platoon , for which he received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.
Dafoe is known for a wide range of roles that are difficult to classify. He played purely evil, predominantly eccentric characters in Wild at Heart , Speed 2 - Cruise Control or Spider-Man , and the hero in Platoon and Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate . Martin Scorsese's drama The Last Temptation of Christ , in which he played the role of Jesus , was also controversial . He had often played an obsessed outsider in his roles, but in 1993 he also appeared as a soft character actor in Paul Schrader's Light Sleeper . One of his most successful roles is also the portrayal of Max Schreck in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire , for which he a. a. was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. His work includes more than 100 productions.
In 2007, he was a member of the jury of the Berlin Film Festival, chaired by US filmmaker Paul Schrader . For his leading role in Lars von Trier's psychological thriller Antichrist , he was awarded the Danish Bodil in 2010 . In 2012 he was on stage at the Teatro Real in Madrid with the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović . He also played the role of "Nathan Dawkins" in the video game Beyond: Two Souls from Quantic Dream , developers of Heavy Rain .
Dafoe received his third Oscar nomination in 2018 for the supporting role of social motel manager Bobby in Sean Baker's The Florida Project (2017). His involvement in the drama brought him numerous other awards, including awards from the Boston , New York and Los Angeles Critics' Associations , as well as the National Board of Review and National Society of Film Critics . Also in 2018 he was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival . In January 2019, he received his fourth nomination for an Oscar for his portrayal of the painter Vincent van Gogh in the biography Van Gogh - On the Threshold of Eternity .
In March 2005, Dafoe married the twenty years younger Italian film director Giada Colagrande , with whom he lives alternately in Rome , New York and Los Angeles .
German voice actors
Dafoe has only had permanent German speakers since the late 1980s. From then on and in the 1990s it was spoken primarily in roughly equal parts by Randolf Kronberg , Wolfgang Condrus and Manfred Lehmann ; Reiner Schöne Dafoes has been practically the only regular speaker since 2002 .
Filmography (selection)
- 1980: Heaven's Gate
- 1982: The Loveless (The Loveless)
- 1983: Desire (The Hunger)
- 1984: New York Nights
- 1984: Streets of Fire (Streets of Fire)
- 1985: Highway 66 (Roadhouse 66)
- 1985: Live and Die in LA (To Live and Die in LA)
- 1986: Der Hitchhiker ( The Hitchhiker , TV series, episode 3x06 ghostwriter )
- 1986: Platoon
- 1987: Dear America - Letters from Vietnam ( Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam , voice)
- 1988: Saigon (Off Limits)
- 1988: Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate (Mississippi Burning)
- 1988: The Last Temptation of Christ (The Last Temptation of Christ)
- 1989: Born on 4 July (Born on the Fourth of July)
- 1989: Triumph of the Spirit
- 1990: Cry-Baby
- 1990: Wild at Heart - The Story of Sailor and Lula (Wild at Heart)
- 1991: Flight of the Intruder (Flight of the Intruder)
- 1992: White Sands - The Big Deal (White Sands)
- 1992: Light Sleeper
- 1993: Body of Evidence
- 1993: Far away, so close!
- 1994: The Cartel (Clear and Present Danger)
- 1994: Tom & Viv
- 1995: The Night and the Moment (The Night and the Moment)
- 1996: Basquiat
- 1996: The English Patient (The English Patient)
- 1996: Victory
- 1997: The Simpsons ( The Simpsons , TV series, episode 8x25 The Secret War of Lisa Simpson , voice)
- 1997: Speed 2 - Cruise Control (Speed 2: Cruise Control)
- 1997: The Hunted (Affliction)
- 1998: Lulu on the Bridge
- 1998: New Rose Hotel
- 1999: eXistenZ
- 1999: The Bloody Path of God (The Boondock Saints)
- 2000: Globehunters (voice)
- 2000: The Animal Factory - Revenge of a Condemned Man (Animal Factory)
- 2000: American Psycho
- 2000: Shadow of the Vampire
- 2000: Bullfighter - Somewhere in Mexico (Bullfighter)
- 2001: The Women of House Wu (Pavilion of Women)
- 2001: Edges of the Lord (Edges of the Lord)
- 2002: Spider-Man
- 2002: Auto Focus
- 2003: Finding Nemo ( Finding Nemo , voice)
- 2003: Sometime in Mexico (Once Upon a Time in Mexico)
- 2003: The Reckoning
- 2003: Camel Cricket City (short film, voice)
- 2004: Aviator (The Aviator)
- 2004: The Deep Sea Divers (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
- 2004: Control - You Shall Not Kill (Control)
- 2004: Spider-Man 2
- 2004: Anatomy of a Kidnapping (The Clearing)
- 2005: Manderlay
- 2005: xXx 2 - The Next Level (xXx: State of the Union)
- 2005: Black Widow - Before It Had a Name
- 2005: Ripley Under Ground
- 2006: American Dreamz (American Dreamz)
- 2006: Inside Man
- 2006: Paris, je t'aime
- 2006: The Chronicles of Erdsee ( Gedo Senki , voice)
- 2007: The Procedure (short film)
- 2007: Go Go Tales
- 2007: Anamorphic - The Art of Killing (Anamorphic)
- 2007: Mr. Bean's Holiday
- 2007: Spider-Man 3
- 2007: The Walker
- 2008: Back in Summer (Fireflies in the Garden)
- 2008: The Dust of Time (Trilogia II: I skoni tou chronou)
- 2008: A Life for a Life - Adam Resurrected (Adam Resurrected)
- 2009: Antichrist
- 2009: L'affaire Farewell
- 2009: A Caring Son (My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done)
- 2009: Daybreakers
- 2009: Midnight Circus - Welcome to the World of Vampires (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant)
- 2009: The Bloody Path of God 2 (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day)
- 2009: The Fantastic Mr. Fox ( Fantastic Mr. Fox , voice)
- 2010: Miral
- 2010: A Woman
- 2010: Problema
- 2011: 4:44 Last Day on Earth
- 2011: The Hunter
- 2012: John Carter - Between Two Worlds (John Carter)
- 2012: The Honor of Killing (Tomorrow You're Gone)
- 2013: Odd Thomas
- 2013: Nymph () maniac (Nymphomaniac)
- 2013: An Eye for an Eye (Out of the Furnace)
- 2014: Grand Budapest Hotel (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- 2014: The Fault in Our Stars (The Fault in Our Stars)
- 2014: A Most Wanted Man
- 2014: Bad Country
- 2014: John Wick
- 2016: Dog Eat Dog
- 2016: Finding Dory ( Finding Dory , Voice)
- 2016: Sculpt
- 2016: The Headhunter's Calling
- 2016: Padre
- 2016: The Great Wall
- 2017: The Florida Project
- 2017: What Happened to Monday?
- 2017: Death Note
- 2017: Murder on the Orient Express (Murder on the Orient Express)
- 2018: Van Gogh - At Eternity's Gate
- 2018: Vox Lux (voice)
- 2018: Aquaman
- 2019: Manou - fly fast! ( Manou the Swift , voice)
- 2019: The Lighthouse (The Lighthouse)
- 2019: Tommaso and the dance of the spirits (Tommaso)
- 2019: Motherless Brooklyn
- 2019: Togo
- 2020: The last thing he wanted (The Last Thing He Wanted)
- 2020: Siberia
Video games
- 2004: 007 - Everything or Nothing (James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing)
- 2013: Beyond: Two Souls
Awards
year | title | role | Awards and nominations |
---|---|---|---|
1987 | Platoon | Sgt. Elias K. Grodin | Nominated - Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Independent Spirit Award (Best Leading Actor) |
1993 | Body of Evidence | Frank Dulaney | Nominated - Golden Raspberry (Worst Actor) |
1997 | Speed 2 - Cruise Control | John Geiger | Nominated - Golden Raspberry (Worst Supporting Actor) |
2000 | Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck |
Independent Spirit Award (Best Supporting Actor) Saturn Award (Best Supporting Actor) Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (Best Supporting Actor) Satellite Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Golden Globe Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Online Film Critics Society Award (Best Supporting Actor) |
2002 | Spider-Man | Green Leprechaun / Norman Osborn | Nominated - Satellite Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Teen Choice Award (Best Villain) Nominated - MTV Movie Award (Best Villain) Nominated - MTV Movie Award (Best Fight - together with Tobey Maguire ) |
Auto Focus | John Henry Carpenter | Nominated - Chicago Film Critics Association Award (Best Supporting Actor) | |
2009 | Antichrist | Hey | Bodil (Best Actor) |
2011 | The Hunter | Martin David | Nominated - AACTA Award (Best Actor) |
2018 | The Florida Project | Bobby |
National Society of Film Critics Award (Best Supporting Actor) National Board of Review Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Golden Globe Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - BAFTA Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Screen Actors Guild Award ( Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Satellite Award (Best Supporting Actor) Nominated - Critics' Choice Movie Award (Best Supporting Actor) |
2018/19 | Van Gogh - On the threshold of eternity | Vincent van Gogh |
Venice International Film Festival 2018 (Best Actor) Nominated - Oscar (Best Actor) |
swell
- Are you an adventurer, Mister Dafoe? Interview with Willem Dafoe. faz.net, September 21, 2007, accessed July 15, 2017 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Willem Dafoe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Willem Dafoe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ What I know about women , theguardian.com , accessed on November 3, 2018 (English)
- ↑ The face of death. Der Spiegel , May 9, 1994, accessed on March 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Willem Dafoe . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2012 from November 6, 2012, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 47/2017 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
- ↑ Willem Dafoe in the German synchronous file
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dafoe, Willem |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dafoe, William |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1955 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Appleton , Wisconsin, United States |