Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American film, stage, and voice actor, and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He has had roles in a wide range of films, including Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A., Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, Wild at Heart, The Boondock Saints, Inside Man, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Spider-Man, Shadow of the Vampire, The Aviator, American Psycho, Antichrist, and voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo. Dafoe has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice. The first was for his role in Platoon in 1986 and the second time for his performance in Shadow of the Vampire in 2000. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willem Dafoe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jul 22, 1955 In Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 157
- First Appeared:
- In the movie White Homeland Commando
- Latest Project:
- Movie SNL 1975 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Sleeping Shepherd | Dirk | 2025 |
| Movie | SNL 1975 | David Tebet | 2025 |
| Movie | Finally Dawn | Rufo Priori | 2024-02-14 |
| Movie | Kinds of Kindness | Raymond / George / Omi | 2024-05-30 |
| Movie | Nosferatu | Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz | 2024-12-25 |
| Movie | Inside | Nemo | 2023-03-09 |
| Movie | Poor Things | Godwin Baxter | 2023-12-07 |
| Movie | The Wild One | Narrator (voice) | 2023-05-10 |
| Movie | Asteroid City | Saltzburg Keitel | 2023-06-08 |
| Movie | Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious | Self | 2022-01-16 |
| Movie | The Northman | Heimir the Fool | 2022-04-07 |
| Movie | 7 Deaths of Maria Callas | Film Actor | 2022-07-24 |
| Movie | White Homeland Commando | 2021 | |
| Movie | Zack Snyder's Justice League | Nudis Vulko | 2021-03-18 |
| Movie | The Card Counter | Gordo | 2021-09-03 |
| Movie | Nightmare Alley | Clem Hoatley | 2021-12-02 |
| Movie | The French Dispatch | Albert 'the Abacus' | 2021-10-21 |
| Movie | Spider-Man: No Way Home | Norman Osborn / Green Goblin | 2021-12-15 |
| Movie | Tommaso | Tommaso | 2020-01-08 |
| Movie | The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale | Self | 2020-01-14 |
| Movie | Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Self | 2020-11-26 |
| Movie | Sportin' Life | Self | 2020-09-06 |
| Movie | Siberia | Clint | 2020-07-02 |
| Movie | The Last Thing He Wanted | Richard McMahon | 2020-02-14 |
| Movie | Manou the Swift | Manou's Father (voice) | 2019-01-25 |
| Movie | Motherless Brooklyn | Paul Randolph | 2019-10-31 |
| Movie | Togo | Leonhard Seppala | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage) | 2019-12-20 |
| Movie | Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project | 2018-02-20 | |
| Movie | Vox Lux | Narrator (voice) | 2018-09-07 |
| Movie | At Eternity's Gate | Vincent van Gogh | 2018-11-15 |
| Movie | Aquaman | Nuidis Vulko | 2018-12-07 |
| Movie | Opus Zero | Paul | 2018-12-28 |
| Movie | Friedkin Uncut | Self | 2018-11-05 |
| Movie | Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self | 2017-05-05 |
| Movie | Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self | 2017-08-01 |
| Movie | What Happened to Monday | Terrence Settman | 2017-08-18 |
| Movie | Murder on the Orient Express | Gerhard Hardman | 2017-11-03 |
| Movie | The Florida Project | Bobby | 2017-10-06 |
| Movie | Death Note | Ryuk (voice) | 2017-08-25 |
| Movie | Nelson Algren Live | Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh | 2016-06-04 |
| Movie | Finding Dory | Gill (voice) | 2016-06-16 |
| Movie | Father | James Verdun | 2016-10-25 |
| Movie | Dog Eat Dog | Mad Dog | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | The Great Wall | Ballard | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | A Family Man | Ed Blackridge | 2016-09-13 |
| Movie | My Hindu Friend | Diego Fairman | 2015-10-22 |
| Movie | Don't F*#% With John Wick | Self | 2015-02-03 |
| Movie | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Jopling | 2014-02-26 |
| Movie | The Fault in Our Stars | Peter van Houten | 2014-05-16 |
| Movie | Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 2014-09-25 |
| Movie | Bad Country | Bud Carter | 2014-09-26 |
| Movie | A Most Wanted Man | Tommy Brue | 2014-07-25 |
| Movie | John Wick | Marcus | 2014-10-22 |
| Movie | Odd Thomas | Wyatt Porter | 2013-01-29 |
| Movie | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | L | 2013-12-25 |
| Movie | Saving Norman | Lionel Pembrooke | 2013-05-25 |
| Movie | The Smile Man | Willem | 2013-06-15 |
| Movie | Out of the Furnace | John Petty | 2013-11-09 |
| Movie | John Carter | Tars Tarkas | 2012-03-07 |
| Movie | 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Cisco | 2012-03-23 |
| Movie | Tomorrow You're Gone | The Buddha | 2012-10-31 |
| Movie | Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic | Self | 2012-09-12 |
| Movie | The Hunter | Martin David | 2011-10-06 |
| Movie | A Woman | Max Oliver | 2010-09-04 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | Miral | Eddie | 2010-09-15 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac | 2010-01-06 |
| Movie | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 |
| Movie | Farewell | Feeney | 2009-09-23 |
| Movie | Antichrist | He | 2009-05-20 |
| Movie | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | Paul Smecker (uncredited) | 2009-11-24 |
| Movie | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Detective Hank Havenhurst | 2009-12-11 |
| Movie | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Gavner Purl | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Rat (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Fireflies in the Garden | Charles Waechter | 2008-08-07 |
| Movie | Adam Resurrected | Commandat Klein | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Dust of Time | A | 2008-11-22 |
| Movie | Mr. Bean's Holiday | Carson Clay | 2007-03-22 |
| Movie | The Walker | Larry Lockner | 2007-02-13 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 3 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2007-05-01 |
| Movie | Voom Portraits | Self | 2007-10-01 |
| Movie | To Each His Own Cinema | (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) | 2007-10-31 |
| Movie | Cannes: All Access | Self | 2007-10-27 |
| Movie | Anamorph | Stan Aubray | 2007-09-21 |
| Movie | The Procedure | Christopher | 2007-08-01 |
| Movie | Go Go Tales | Ray Ruby | 2007-05-23 |
| Movie | American Dreamz | Chief of Staff | 2006-03-04 |
| Movie | Inside Man | John Darius | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Paris Je T'aime | Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires) | 2006-06-21 |
| Movie | xXx: State of the Union | Gen. George Octavius Deckert | 2005-04-27 |
| Movie | On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' | Self / Klaus D. | 2005-01-15 |
| Movie | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Willem Dafoe (uncredited) | 2005-05-08 |
| Movie | Manderlay | Grace's Father | 2005-06-03 |
| Movie | Ripley Under Ground | Neil Murchison | 2005-11-06 |
| Movie | Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal | Self | 2005-05-09 |
| Movie | Before It Had a Name | Leslie | 2005-09-10 |
| Movie | This Is an Adventure | Self | 2005-05-10 |
| Movie | Spider-Man 2 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2004-06-25 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Martin | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | The Clearing | Arnold Mack | 2004-07-02 |
| Movie | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Klaus Daimler | 2004-12-10 |
| Movie | The Aviator | Roland Sweet | 2004-12-17 |
| Movie | Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate | Narrator (voice) | 2004-10-08 |
| Movie | Control | Dr. Michael Copeland | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | The Misbehavers | Self | 2004-12-04 |
| Movie | Rockets Redglare! | Self | 2003-05-02 |
| Movie | Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Barillo | 2003-09-11 |
| Movie | Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty | 2003-09-12 | |
| Movie | Overnight | Self | 2003-06-12 |
| Movie | Finding Nemo | Gill (voice) | 2003-05-30 |
| Movie | Spider-Man | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn | 2002-05-01 |
| Movie | Auto Focus | John Carpenter | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | Edges of the Lord | Priest | 2001-10-12 |
| Movie | A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self | 2001-01-01 |
| Movie | Pavilion of Women | Father Andre | 2001-04-20 |
| Movie | Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure | Hunter (voice) | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck | 2000-05-15 |
| Movie | Animal Factory | Earl Copen | 2000-10-13 |
| Movie | Bullfighter | Father Ramirez | 2000-10-01 |
| Movie | American Psycho | Donald Kimball | 2000-04-13 |
| Movie | eXistenZ | Gas | 1999-04-14 |
| Movie | The Boondock Saints | Paul Smecker | 1999-01-22 |
| Movie | New Rose Hotel | X | 1999-03-19 |
| Movie | Lulu on the Bridge | Dr. Van Horn | 1998-09-06 |
| Movie | Abel/Asia | Self (archival footage) | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Affliction | Rolfe Whitehouse | 1998-02-12 |
| Movie | Speed 2: Cruise Control | Geiger | 1997-06-13 |
| Movie | The English Patient | David Caravaggio | 1996-11-14 |
| Movie | Victory | Axel Heyst | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | Basquiat | The Electrician | 1996-08-09 |
| Movie | Clear and Present Danger | John Clark | 1994-08-03 |
| Movie | Tom & Viv | Tom Eliot | 1994-04-15 |
| Movie | Rhyme 'Em to Death | 1993-01-01 | |
| Movie | Faraway, So Close! | Emit Flesti | 1993-09-01 |
| Movie | Body of Evidence | Frank Dulaney | 1993-01-15 |
| Movie | Brace Up! | Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin | 1993-04-01 |
| Movie | White Sands | Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal | 1992-04-24 |
| Movie | Light Sleeper | John LeTour | 1992-08-21 |
| Series | Fishing with John | Himself | 1991-11-20 |
| Movie | Flight of the Intruder | Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole | 1991-01-18 |
| Movie | Wild at Heart | Bobby Peru | 1990-08-17 |
| Movie | Cry-Baby | Hateful Guard | 1990-04-06 |
| Movie | Triumph of the Spirit | Salamo Arouch | 1989-12-08 |
| Movie | Born on the Fourth of July | Charlie | 1989-12-20 |
| Movie | The Last Temptation of Christ | Jesus | 1988-05-28 |
| Movie | Mississippi Burning | Ward | 1988-12-08 |
| Movie | Off Limits | Buck McGriff | 1988-03-11 |
| Movie | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Elephant Grass (voice) | 1987-10-01 |
| Movie | Platoon | Sergeant Elias Gordon | 1986-12-19 |
| Movie | To Live and Die in L.A. | Eric Masters | 1985-11-01 |
| Movie | Roadhouse 66 | Johnny Harte | 1984-08-31 |
| Movie | New York Nights | Boyfriend | 1984-03-01 |
| Movie | Streets of Fire | Raven Shaddock | 1984-06-01 |
| Movie | The Hunger | 2nd Phone Booth Youth | 1983-04-29 |
| Movie | The Loveless | Vance | 1981-08-07 |
| Movie | Heaven's Gate | Willy (uncredited) | 1980-11-19 |