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.
212 movies · 26 shows
The Birthday Party
2026·0.0
The Resurrection of Christ
2026·0.0
The Souffleur
2026·7.0
Pet Shop Days
2025·5.2
The Man in My Basement
2025·5.4
Avrio Vrady
2025·0.0
The Phoenician Scheme
2025·6.5
Grande Envie
2025·10.0
The Legend of Ochi
2025·6.1
Zero
2025·5.7
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
2024·5.5
Nosferatu
2024·6.7
Jesus Goes to Hollywood
2024·5.0
run 002
2024·0.0
Saturday Night
2024·6.7
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024·6.9
Kinds of Kindness
2024·6.5
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024·0.0
Finally Dawn
2024·6.1
Poor Things
2023·7.6
Interior (The Spectator)
2023·0.0
Willem Dafoe
2023·5.0
Gonzo Girl
2023·2.0
Asteroid City
2023·6.5
The Wild One
2023·6.0
Inside
2023·5.7
Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022·7.0
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022·0.0
Dead for a Dollar
2022·5.8
7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022·3.0
Il coraggio di essere Franco
2022·5.6
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022·6.8
The Northman
2022·7.0
Finding Satoshi
2022·8.0
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022·0.0
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021·7.9
Nightmare Alley
2021·6.9
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021·7.0
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021·6.0
The Card Counter
2021·6.1
River
2021·6.2
Maresco / Pasolini
2021·0.0
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021·8.1
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020·7.1
Sportin' Life
2020·4.2
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020·7.7
Siberia
2020·4.9
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020·6.0
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020·4.9
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
2020·6.9
Tommaso
2020·5.7
Togo
2019·8.1
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019·6.5
Motherless Brooklyn
2019·6.7
The Lighthouse
2019·7.5
Love, Antosha
2019·7.4
Manou the Swift
2019·6.4
Opus Zero
2018·5.5
Aquaman
2018·6.9
At Eternity's Gate
2018·7.0
Brothers in Arms
2018·5.8
Friedkin Uncut
2018·7.1
Vox Lux
2018·5.8
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018·0.0
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018·8.3
Mountain
2017·6.9
Murder on the Orient Express
2017·6.7
The Florida Project
2017·7.4
Piazza Vittorio
2017·6.5
Death Note
2017·4.3
What Happened to Monday
2017·7.1
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017·2.0
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017·7.3
Sanctuary
2017·0.0
The Great Wall
2016·6.0
Dog Eat Dog
2016·5.1
Father
2016·4.2
A Family Man
2016·6.7
Sculpt
2016·1.0
Finding Dory
2016·7.0
Nelson Algren Live
2016·0.0
My Hindu Friend
2016·4.0
Mind the Gap
2016·7.2
Fukushima: A Nuclear Story
2015·7.5
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015·0.0
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015·7.2
Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015·7.7
John Wick
2014·7.5
Bad Country
2014·5.5
Pasolini
2014·5.7
SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg
2014·4.0
A Most Wanted Man
2014·6.5
The Fault in Our Stars
2014·7.6
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014·8.0
The Benaki Museum
2013·0.0
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013·6.7
Out of the Furnace
2013·6.6
Love's Routine
2013·6.5
The Smile Man
2013·7.4
Saving Norman
2013·6.5
Odd Thomas
2013·7.0
Tomorrow You're Gone
2012·4.4
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
2012·6.5
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012·4.8
John Carter
2012·6.4
The Hunter
2011·6.7
Miral
2010·5.8
A Woman
2010·4.3
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010·6.1
The Making of Daybreakers
2010·7.0
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010·9.0
Daybreakers
2010·6.3
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009·6.0
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009·5.9
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009·7.8
Farewell
2009·6.5
Antichrist
2009·6.6
The Dust of Time
2008·6.3
Adam Resurrected
2008·6.1
Fireflies in the Garden
2008·6.2
Go Go Tales
2008·5.7
To Each His Own Cinema
2007·6.5
Cannes: All Access
2007·3.2
Voom Portraits
2007·10.0
Anamorph
2007·5.2
The Procedure
2007·4.6
Spider-Man 3
2007·6.5
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007·6.4
The Walker
2007·5.3
Paris Je T'aime
2006·6.8
Inside Man
2006·7.4
American Dreamz
2006·5.1
Ripley Under Ground
2005·5.6
Before It Had a Name
2005·3.6
Manderlay
2005·6.9
This Is an Adventure
2005·6.8
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005·6.4
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005·4.3
xXx: State of the Union
2005·5.1
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005·6.2
The Aviator
2004·7.2
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004·7.1
Control
2004·6.1
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004·0.0
The Misbehavers
2004·10.0
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004·7.5
The Clearing
2004·5.8
Spider-Man 2
2004·7.3
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004·0.0
The Reckoning
2004·6.4
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003·7.7
Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003·8.0
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003·6.3
Overnight
2003·6.3
Finding Nemo
2003·7.8
Rockets Redglare!
2003·8.0
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002·4.5
Auto Focus
2002·6.4
The Spider-Man Story
2002·7.0
Spider-Man
2002·7.3
Spider-Mania
2002·5.4
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002·5.8
Edges of the Lord
2001·6.4
Pavilion of Women
2001·5.5
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
2001·8.5
Animal Factory
2000·6.3
Bullfighter
2000·3.0
Shadow of the Vampire
2000·6.7
American Psycho
2000·7.4
eXistenZ
1999·6.8
New Rose Hotel
1999·5.2
The Boondock Saints
1999·7.3
Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle
1999·10.0
Lulu on the Bridge
1998·5.9
Affliction
1998·6.3
Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997·4.6
Wrong Guys
1997·0.0
Victory
1996·5.2
The English Patient
1996·7.1
Basquiat
1996·6.6
The Night and the Moment
1995·4.9
Clear and Present Danger
1994·6.7
Tom & Viv
1994·6.1
Faraway, So Close!
1993·6.9
Brace Up!
1993·10.0
White Homeland Commando
1993·10.0
Body of Evidence
1993·5.0
Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993·0.0
Light Sleeper
1992·6.7
Blast 'Em
1992·7.0
White Sands
1992·5.9
North on Evers
1992·7.5
Flight of the Intruder
1991·5.8
Wild at Heart
1990·7.0
Cry-Baby
1990·6.5
Born on the Fourth of July
1989·7.0
Triumph of the Spirit
1989·6.5
Mississippi Burning
1988·7.7
Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ
1988·5.3
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988·7.2
Off Limits
1988·5.6
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987·7.1
Platoon
1986·7.8
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985·7.1
O Panama
1985·7.0
Roadhouse 66
1984·5.2
Streets of Fire
1984·6.9
New York Nights
1984·3.7
The Loveless
1984·5.6
Atalanta Strategy
1984·0.0
The Hunger
1983·6.7
Heaven's Gate
1980·6.7