10.0
10.0
White Homeland Commando
1993
as Karl
Willem Dafoe
Acting
Born:July 22, 1955(age 71)
Birthplace:Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Appleton East High School
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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).
Filmography (211 movies)
10.0
10.0
Voom Portraits
2007
as Self
10.0
10.0
Brace Up!
1993
as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
8.5
8.5
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
2001
as Self
8.3
8.3
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018
as Self
8.1
8.1
Togo
2019
as Leonhard Seppala
8.1
8.1
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021
as Vulko
8.0
8.0
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Jopling
8.0
8.0
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003
as Self
8.0
8.0
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
8.0
8.0
Finding Satoshi
2022
as Narrator
7.9
7.9
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021
as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
7.8
7.8
Finding Nemo
2003
as Gill (voice)
7.8
7.8
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Rat (voice)
7.8
7.8
Late Fame
2025
as Ed Saxberger
7.7
7.7
Platoon
1986
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
7.7
7.7
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
as Self
7.7
7.7
Mississippi Burning
1988
as Agent Alan Ward
7.7
7.7
Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015
as Self
7.7
7.7
Poor Things
2023
as Godwin Baxter
7.6
7.6
The Fault in Our Stars
2014
as Peter van Houten
7.5
7.5
The Lighthouse
2019
as Thomas Wake
7.5
7.5
John Wick
2014
as Marcus
7.4
7.4
American Psycho
2000
as Donald Kimball
7.4
7.4
The Florida Project
2017
as Bobby
7.4
7.4
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2015
as Narrator
7.4
7.4
The Smile Man
2013
as Willem
7.4
7.4
Love, Antosha
2019
as Self
7.4
7.4
Inside Man
2006
as John Darius
7.4
7.4
Spider-Man
2002
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
7.3
7.3
Spider-Man 2
2004
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
7.3
7.3
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017
as Self
7.3
7.3
The Boondock Saints
1999
as Paul Smecker
7.2
7.2
The Aviator
2004
as Roland Sweet
7.2
7.2
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988
as Jesus
7.2
7.2
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015
as Self
7.2
7.2
North on Evers
1992
7.2
7.2
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004
as Narrator (voice)
7.2
7.2
Mind the Gap
2016
as Self
7.2
7.2
The English Patient
1996
as David Caravaggio
7.2
7.2
What Happened to Monday
2017
as Terrence Settman
7.1
7.1
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
as Rick Masters
7.1
7.1
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Elephant Grass (voice)
7.1
7.1
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004
as Klaus Daimler
7.0
7.0
The Northman
2022
as Heimir the Fool
7.0
7.0
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
as Self
7.0
7.0
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024
as Jackson
7.0
7.0
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022
as Film Actor
7.0
7.0
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
as Self
7.0
7.0
Friedkin Uncut
2018
as Self
7.0
7.0
Wild at Heart
1990
as Bobby Peru
7.0
7.0
Born on the Fourth of July
1989
as Charlie
7.0
7.0
Nightmare Alley
2021
as Clem Hoatley
7.0
7.0
At Eternity's Gate
2018
as Vincent van Gogh
6.9
6.9
Odd Thomas
2013
as Wyatt Porter
6.9
6.9
Faraway, So Close!
1993
as Emit Flesti
6.9
6.9
Mountain
2017
as Narrator (voice)
6.9
6.9
Streets of Fire
1984
as Raven Shaddock
6.9
6.9
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
2020
as Self
6.9
6.9
Manderlay
2005
as Grace's Father
6.9
6.9
Aquaman
2018
as Nuidis Vulko
6.8
6.8
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
as Self
6.8
6.8
eXistenZ
1999
as Gas
6.8
6.8
Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
6.7
6.7
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013
as L
6.7
6.7
Murder on the Orient Express
2017
as Gerhard Hardman
6.7
6.7
Nosferatu
2024
as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
6.7
6.7
Saturday Night
2024
as David Tebet
6.7
6.7
A Family Man
2016
as Ed Blackridge
6.7
6.7
Shadow of the Vampire
2000
as Max Schreck
6.7
6.7
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
as Paul Randolph
6.7
6.7
The Phoenician Scheme
2025
as Knave
6.7
6.7
Light Sleeper
1992
as John LeTour
6.6
6.6
The Hunger
1983
as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
6.6
6.6
Clear and Present Danger
1994
as John Clark
6.6
6.6
Antichrist
2009
as He
6.6
6.6
The Hunter
2011
as Martin David
6.6
6.6
Basquiat
1996
as The Electrician
6.6
6.6
Out of the Furnace
2013
as John Petty
6.5
6.5
Cry-Baby
1990
as Hateful Guard
6.5
6.5
Triumph of the Spirit
1989
as Salamo Arouch
6.5
6.5
Saving Norman
2013
as Lionel Pembrooke
6.5
6.5
Piazza Vittorio
2017
as Himself
6.5
6.5
This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
6.5
6.5
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
2012
as Self
6.5
6.5
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Kinds of Kindness
2024
as Raymond / George / Omi
6.5
6.5
Spider-Man 3
2007
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
6.5
6.5
Farewell
2009
as Feeney
6.5
6.5
A Most Wanted Man
2014
as Tommy Brue
6.4
6.4
Asteroid City
2023
as Saltzburg Keitel
6.4
6.4
Manou the Swift
2019
as Manou's Father (voice)
6.4
6.4
Love's Routine
2013
as Barry
6.4
6.4
The Dust of Time
2008
as A
6.4
6.4
Edges of the Lord
2001
as Priest
6.4
6.4
Auto Focus
2002
as John Carpenter
6.4
6.4
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007
as Carson Clay
6.4
6.4
The Reckoning
2004
as Martin
6.4
6.4
John Carter
2012
as Tars Tarkas
6.3
6.3
Animal Factory
2000
as Earl Copen
6.3
6.3
Overnight
2003
as Self
6.3
6.3
Affliction
1997
as Rolfe Whitehouse
6.3
6.3
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003
as Armando Barillo
6.3
6.3
Daybreakers
2010
as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
6.2
6.2
The Wild One
2023
as Narrator (voice)
6.2
6.2
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
6.2
6.2
Fireflies in the Garden
2008
as Charles Waechter
6.2
6.2
Adam Resurrected
2008
as Commandat Klein
6.1
6.1
The Card Counter
2021
as Gordo
6.1
6.1
River
2021
as Narrator
6.1
6.1
Tom & Viv
1994
as Tom Eliot
6.1
6.1
The Legend of Ochi
2025
as Maxim
6.1
6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Detective Hank Havenhurst
6.0
6.0
Control
2004
as Dr. Michael Copeland
6.0
6.0
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
as Self
6.0
6.0
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
6.0
6.0
Rockets Redglare!
2003
as Self
6.0
6.0
O Panama
1985
6.0
6.0
The Great Wall
2016
as Ballard
6.0
6.0
Zero
2025
as (voice)
5.9
5.9
Finally Dawn
2024
as Rufo Priori
5.9
5.9
White Sands
1992
as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
5.9
5.9
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
as Self / Klaus D.
5.8
5.8
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009
as Gavner Purl
5.8
5.8
Dead for a Dollar
2022
as Joe Cribbens
5.8
5.8
The Clearing
2004
as Arnold Mack
5.8
5.8
Tommaso
2020
as Tommaso
5.7
5.7
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Dr. Van Horn
5.7
5.7
The Loveless
1984
as Vance
5.7
5.7
Brothers in Arms
2018
as Self
5.7
5.7
Pasolini
2014
as Pier Paolo Pasolini
5.7
5.7
Flight of the Intruder
1991
as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
5.7
5.7
Miral
2010
as Eddie
5.6
5.6
Inside
2023
as Nemo
5.6
5.6
Go Go Tales
2007
as Ray Ruby
5.6
5.6
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002
as Self
5.6
5.6
Il coraggio di essere Franco
2022
as Sé stesso
5.6
5.6
Off Limits
1988
as Buck McGriff
5.5
5.5
Ripley Under Ground
2005
as Neil Murchison
5.5
5.5
Bad Country
2014
as Bud Carter
5.5
5.5
Opus Zero
2018
as Paul
5.5
5.5
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
2024
as Self
5.4
5.4
Spider-Mania
2002
as Self
5.4
5.4
Pavilion of Women
2001
as Father Andre
5.3
5.3
The Birthday Party
2026
as Marcos Timoleon
5.3
5.3
The Walker
2007
as Larry Lockner
5.2
5.2
New Rose Hotel
1999
as X
5.2
5.2
Roadhouse 66
1984
as Johnny Harte
5.1
5.1
Dog Eat Dog
2016
as Mad Dog
5.1
5.1
Anamorph
2007
as Stan Aubray
5.1
5.1
The Man in My Basement
2025
Executive Producer
5.1
5.1
xXx: State of the Union
2005
as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
5.0
5.0
American Dreamz
2006
as Chief of Staff
5.0
5.0
Body of Evidence
1993
as Frank Dulaney
5.0
5.0
Willem Dafoe
2023
5.0
5.0
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
2024
as Self (archive footage)
4.9
4.9
Siberia
2020
as Clint
4.9
4.9
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020
as Richard McMahon
4.8
4.8
Victory
1996
as Axel Heyst
4.7
4.7
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012
as Cisco
4.6
4.6
Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997
as Geiger
4.6
4.6
The Procedure
2007
as Christopher
4.5
4.5
Pet Shop Days
2025
as Francis
4.4
4.4
Tomorrow You're Gone
2012
as The Buddha
4.3
4.3
The Night and the Moment
1995
as Lo scrittore
4.3
4.3
A Woman
2010
as Max Oliver
4.3
4.3
Death Note
2017
as Ryuk (voice)
4.2
4.2
Father
2016
as James Verdun
4.2
4.2
Sportin' Life
2020
as Self
4.0
4.0
My Hindu Friend
2016
as Diego Fairman
4.0
4.0
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ
1988
as Self
4.0
4.0
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
2014
as (archive footage)
3.7
3.7
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
3.3
3.3
Before It Had a Name
2005
Screenplay
2.6
2.6
Bullfighter
2000
as Father Ramirez
2.4
2.4
New York Nights
1984
as Boyfriend
2.0
2.0
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
1.3
1.3
Gonzo Girl
2023
as Walker Reade
1.0
1.0
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002
as Hunter (voice)
1.0
1.0
Sculpt
2016
The Spider-Man Story
2002
as Self
run 002
2024
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024
as Self
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022
as Self
The Souffleur
2025
as Lucius
Werwulf
2026
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Wrong Guys
1997
as Jack Straw
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004
as Self
A Christmas Carol
TBA
as Ebenezer Scrooge
Grande Envie
2025
as Count
Avrio Vrady
2025
as Dancing man
Maresco / Pasolini
2021
as Self
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
1999
as Narrator
Tropico
TBA
Producer
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018
Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993
Atalanta Strategy
1984
as Immigration Staff
The Benaki Museum
2013
as Narrator (voice)
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as Narrator
Cuddle
TBA
as Dante
Sanctuary
2017
as Narrator
The Sleeping Shepherd
TBA
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Grand Duc
Nelson Algren Live
2016
as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015
as Self
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022
Interior (The Spectator)
2023
as Narrator
The Misbehavers
2004
as Self
American Nails
TBA
Tenzing
TBA
as Colonel John Hunt
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