Willem Dafoe

Movie Actor

Willem Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States on July 22nd, 1955 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 68, Willem Dafoe biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
William J. Dafoe, Willem (a nickname received in high school), Billy
Date of Birth
July 22, 1955
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
Age
68 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$40 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Film Producer, Model, Performing Artist, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Voice Actor
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Willem Dafoe Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 68 years old, Willem Dafoe has this physical status:

Height
175cm
Weight
78kg
Hair Color
Dark Brown
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Willem Dafoe Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Unknown
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Appleton West High School
Willem Dafoe Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Giada Colagrande ​(m. 2005)​
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Wendy Witt (1970-1972), Elizabeth LeCompte (1977-2004), Mira Sorvino (2003), Giada Colagrande (2004–Present)
Parents
William Alfred Dafoe, Muriel Isabel Dafoe
Siblings
Donald Cameron Dafoe (Brother) (Surgeon and Research Scientist), Richard George Dafoe (Brother), Barbara Ellen Dafoe (Sister), Nancy Jane Dafoe (Sister), Sarah Beth Dafoe (Sister), Diane Elaine Dafoe (Sister), Jane Collins Dafoe (Sister)
Willem Dafoe Life

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor with dual citizenship.

He is known for his distinctive gravelly voice and has received numerous awards, including nominations for four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, and Wes Anderson have all worked with filmmakers. Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group, where he appeared in many productions.

He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but he was disqualified during post-production.

He appeared in Outlaw Motorcycles (1982), and later in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in Los Angeles. He was the protagonist in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982) and then played the principal antagonist.

(1985): Anglo-American traces.

In Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986), he received his first Academy Award nomination for his role as Sergeant Elias Gordon.

Dafoe appeared in The Last Temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese and starred in Mississippi Burning in 1988, both of which were controversial.

He began working with director Paul Schrader (1992) after small roles in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Wild at Heart (1990).

He appeared in the critically panned thriller Body of Evidence (1993) and then co-starred in Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1997), and The Boondock Saints (1999). Dafoe played Norman Osborn in the superhero film Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and the villains in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2004) and XX: The Union (2005), after receiving his second Academy Award nomination for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).

He appeared in the experimental film Antichrist, one of his three films with Lars von Trier in 2009.

Dafoe appeared in The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, The Grand Budapest Hotel (all 2014), The Great Wall (2016), Murder on the Orient Express, 2017), and The Florida Project (2017), receiving his third Academy Award nomination for his work in the latter.

He has appeared in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2005), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2010), John Carter (2011), and Death Note (2017), as well as the films Spider-Man (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), and Beyond: Two Souls (2013). Dafoe has portrayed several realistic characters, including T.S.

Eliot in Tom & Viv (1994), Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pasolini (4), and Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate (2018) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination, his first in that category.

Early life and education

William James Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, on July 22, 1955. In 2009, one of eight children of Muriel Isabel (née Sprissler) (November 29, 1921 – September 14, 2012) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe (July 21, 1917 – November 21, 2014) recalled "My five siblings raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse, and they worked together, so I didn't get a glimpse of either of them much." Donald Dafoe, his brother, is a transplant surgeon and researcher. He has ancestry from England, France, German, Irish, and Scottish. Dafoe, the Anglicized version of the Swiss Thévou, is the Anglicized version of the Swiss Thévou. Willem, the Dutch spelling of the name William, was he acquired in high school. During an interview, he explained that about half of the Dafoe family's emphasis is on the first syllable of their surname, and the other half on the second. He took the second interpretation as his stage name only after becoming an actor.

Dafoe studied drama at Appleton East High School, but he left after a year and a half to join Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to New York City in 1976. He apprenticed under Richard Schechner, the artistic director of the avant-garde theater company The Performance Group, where he met and became intimately connected with Elizabeth LeCompte. Schechner was defeated by her long-distance spouse Spalding Gray and others and founded the Wooster Group. Dafoe was a member of the company within a year. Dafoe will work with the Wooster Group into the 2000s. Dafoe, Chancellor Mark Mone, had welcomed him back to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on May 22, 2022, to serve as the keynote speaker at the University's commencement ceremony and receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.

Personal life

Dafoe began a friendship with director Elizabeth LeCompte in 1977. Jack, the son, was born in 1982. They divorced in 2004 and were never married because "to her, marriage represented ownership."

Giada Colagrande, an Italian actress, producer, and screenwriter, died on March 25, 2005, a year after the two met in Rome at the premiere of one of her films. "We were having lunch, and I said, 'Do you want to get married tomorrow?'" Dafoe said in 2010. They did so in the following afternoon at a small gathering with two friends as witnesses. Both women appeared in her films before They had a name and a woman. They divide their time between Rome, New York City, and Los Angeles. He now has dual citizenship in both America and Italy.

Dafoe is a pescetarian who avoids eating meat because "animal farms are one of the main causes of the planet's demise." Every day, he practices ashtanga yoga.

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Willem Dafoe Career

Career

Dafoe began his film career in 1979, when he was cast in Michael Cimino's epic Western film Heaven's Gate as a supporting actor. Dafoe was only present for the first three months of an eight-month gunman. During editing, his role, that of a cockfighter who works for Jeff Bridges' character, was cut from the majority of the film, but it was apparent during a cockfight scene. Dafoe did not receive a single mention for his contribution to the film. Dafoe appeared in 1982 as the administrator of an outlaw motorcycle club in The Loveless, his first appearance as a leading man. Kathryn Bigelow and Monty Montgomery co-directed the film, which starred Marlon Brando in a similar role in 1953.

In Walter Hill's 1984 action film Streets of Fire, Dafoe reprised his role as the leader of a biker squad. In the film, his role as the main antagonist, portraying the ex-girlfriend of a mercenary played by Diane Lane and Michael Paré, respectively. Janet Maslin of The New York Times said there were no outstanding performances in the film, but she praised Dafoe's "perfectly villainous" appearance. Dafoe appeared in Roadhouse 66 (1985), as a pair of yuppies who became trapped in a town on US Route 66. Dafoe appeared in William Petersen and John Pankow's thriller To Live and Die in Los Angeles, in which Dafoe portrays a robber named Rick Masters who is being tracked by two Secret Service agents. Roger Ebert, a film critic, praised his film "good" work.

Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon, his sole film release in 1986, gained him his widest exposure up to that point for portraying compassionate Sergeant Elias Grodin. He loved the opportunity to act in a heroic role and said the film gave him a chance to show his versatility, saying, "I think all characters live in you." You just frame them, give them circumstances, and they'll be cast, and the sarcon will appear." The film's principal photography took place in the Philippines, and Dafoe was required to attend boot camp training. Sheila Benson, a Los Angeles Times reporter, applauded his appearance and found it to be "particularly fine" to see Dafoe perform "something other than a psychopath." Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 59th Academy Awards, but Michael Caine was given the statuette (for the 1986 film Hannah and Her Sisters). Dafoe appeared in the documentary Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) and, in 1988, Dafoe appeared in another film set during the Vietnam war, this time as Criminal Investigation Command Agent Buck McGriff in the action thriller Off Limits. Martin Scorsese's epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus, was his second release of 1988. The film was based on a novel of the same name and depicts his struggle with various forms of temptation throughout his life. The film, as the novel, sparked controversy for departing from Jesus' biblical portrayal of Him and was described as blasphemous. However, Dafoe's role in the film was widely praised, with Janet Maslin stating that Dafoe brought a "gleaming energy" to the role.

Dafoe's last release as a pair of FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights activists in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi during the civil rights movement, resembled Gene Hackman in his 1988 film In his last release, Dafoe appeared opposite Gene Hackman in the crime drama Mississippi Burning. "Dafoe portrays a logical and fascinating representation of Ward," Variety wrote, although they suspected it was Hackman "who steals the picture." The film, as with The Last Temptation of Christ, has been the subject of controversies, particularly among African-American activists who sluggishly portrayed events. Dafoe appeared in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) briefly as the supervillain the Joker, but was never offered the role that eventually went to Jack Nicholson. Dafoe appeared in the Triumph of the Spirit in 1989 as Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch, an Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner who was forced to fight other internees to death for the Nazi officers' entertainment. It was shot on location in Auschwitz, the first major film to do so. Although the film was not well received, some commentators lauded Dafoe's performance; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone praised him; and Janet Maslin said he was "harrowingly good." Dafoe reunited with Platoon director Oliver Stone for a small part in the biographical war epic Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Dafoe was played by Tom Cruise in a film involving a paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends Ron Kovic, the film's subject, who was played by Tom Cruise, another plegic veteran.

Dafoe appeared in John Waters' musical comedy Cry-Baby (1990) as a prison guard giving a short introduction to the title character, who is portrayed by Johnny Depp. Rita Kempley of The Washington Post found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. Dafoe co-starred in David Lynch's crime film Wild at Heart with Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern in the same year. Dafoe played a criminal who participates in a robbery with Cage's character before revealing his darker side. He wore fake, corroded teeth, and grew a pencil moustache that bore resemblance to John Waters' predecessor. Owen Gleiberman, a Entertainment Weekly columnist, thought Dafoe was a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy." In 1991, Dafoe appeared in Flight of the Intruder, starring Danny Glover and Brad Johnson. The film follows two United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who plan and participate in an illegal air attack on Hanoi. The film, directed by John Millius, received critical feedback. In 1991, he was supposed to star opposite Joan Cusack in the comedy Arrive Alive, but the project was cancelled due to production. In 1992, Dafoe appeared in two lead roles. Dafoe, a play little-town sheriff who impersonates a deceased man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000, prompting an FBI probe. Paul Schrader's drama Light Sleeper played John LeTour, a lonely, insomniac, New Yorker serving as a delivery man for a drug manufacturer, who is played by Susan Sarandon. Roger Ebert lauded LeTour and Owen Gleiberman's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman, "even though the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's sardonic presence."

Dafoe starred in Body of Evidence (1993), a teen drama starring Madonna. The story revolves around a lawyer played by Dafoe, who has a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he represents in a murder lawsuit. Critics and the box office failed, with some audience members yelling during the sex scenes. Vincent Canby said that Dafoe lacked sensuality in the role. In the German fantasy film Faraway, So Close!, directed by Wim Wenders, Dafoe appeared in a supporting role as Emit Flesti (an anagram of Time Itself). Dafoe co-starred in the thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), which was an adaptation of the Tom Clancy book of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA agent Jack Ryan. Dafoe portrayed John Clark, a CIA agent operating in Colombia with Jack Ryan, in a clandestine attack on a drug cartel. In the drama Tom & Viv (also in 1994), Dafoe portrayed poet T. S. Eliot, who tells the tale of Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, who was played by Miranda Richardson. Critics generally greeted the film, but Caryn James of The New York Times noted that Dafoe's "stunningly sharp, sympathetic portrait lifts the film above a script that is full of serious holes and stilted discourse." In 1995, he appeared as an 18th-century writer in The Night and the Time.

Dafoe made a cameo appearance in the biographical drama Basquiat in his first three film appearances in 1996. In the romantic war drama The English Patient, which starred Ralph Fiennes as desert explorer Count László Almásy, he followed him. The English Patient was shot in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he loved the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots." Victory, a period drama starring Irène Jacob in 1994, premiered in Europe in 1996, but was not released until 1998. Dafoe reprised his role in the action thriller Speed 2: Cruise Control in 1997, emphasizing the importance of appearing in both independent and blockbuster films. Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric were starring a couple on a luxury cruise hijacked by Dafoe's character, Geiger, a hacker who has programmed the ship to crash into an oil tanker. Critics were overwhelmingly critical of Speed 2, with Dafoe himself being named for Worst Supporting Actor by the Razzie Award. Dafoe appeared in Affliction (1997), his second film with Paul Schrader, portraying Nick Nolte's brother and acting as the film's narrator. Dafoe played "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" in an episode of the animated sitcom "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson," voicing the commandant of a military academy that Bart and Lisa Simpson are attending. Dafoe appeared in Abel Ferrara's cyberpunk thriller The Bridge is a tragic supporting role in Lulu on the Bridge. It's a X (Dafoe) and Fox (Walken), two corporate raiders trying to lure a Japanese scientist from one megacorporation to another. Though critics largely dismissed the film, writer David Stratton found there to be "compensation" in the performances.

Dafoe appeared in David Cronenberg's Existenz, a science fiction thriller in which he played a gas station owner named Gas. Dafoe appeared in the action film The Boondock Saints later this year. He was assigned by the MacManus twins (played by Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus) as detectives in Boston, Massachusetts, following an act of self-defense. Film critics generally dismissed the Boondock Saints for their extreme brutality and lack of emotional depth, although some commentators praised Dafoe's film participation. The film received a poor reception at the box office, but it has since been branded as a cult film.

Dafoe's first film of the 2000s was as a private investigator investigating Patrick Bateman's abduction. (played by Christian Bale), an investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer, was featured in Dafoe. Dafoe, Steve Buscemi's crime drama, brought a young prisoner (played by Edward Furlong) under his wing and introduces him to his gang. Critics and Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times all praised the film, "Dafoe steals the image for his comedic timing." Shadow of the Vampire, his year-end film, saw him play a fictionalized version of German actor Max Schreck during the 1922 horror film Nosferatu, in which Schreck appeared as the vampire Count Orlok. F. W. Murnau, Dafoe's co-star, portrayed the film's director. The film delves into fantasy as the cast and crew discover that Schreck is really a vampire himself during Nosferatu's filming. A large portion of the film's critical laud went to Dafoe; Roger Ebert said that Dafoe "embodies the Schreck of Nosferatu so uncannily that we don't notice a difference" when actual scenes from the silent film are included in the picture. Jonathan Rosenbaum, a Chicago critic, said the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance." Dafoe has received numerous awards and accolades for his appearance, including his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination.

In 2001, Dafoe began to play two leading roles, both of whom were priests. He played an American priest living in China who falls in love with a local married woman (played by film's screenwriter Luo Yan) while still giving her son a Western education. He then appeared opposite Haley Joel Osment in Edges of the Lord, playing a generous priest assisting a young Jewish boy disguised as a Catholic to shield him against Nazi Germany's annexation of Poland. In Sam Raimi's 2002 superhero film Spider-Man, Dafoe played the Green Goblin, starring Tobey Maguire as the titular Marvel Comics superhero. After trying an insecure strength enhancer on himself, Dafoe played the Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the company Oscorp, becoming the Green Goblin, transforming him into the Green Goblin, transforming him into the Green Goblin, transforming him into the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the firm Oscorp, making him insane and making him extremely wealthy. Osborn, a close friend of Parker, is a family friend of Spider-Man's unknown identity Peter Parker. Dafoe had to wear an uncomfortable costume and mask that made it impossible to emote using his face, confining Dafoe to convey emotion by his voice and head movements, which made it impossible to emote. Dafoe had to wear prosthetic teeth for his role as Norman, but the character's hallucinations included Dafoe in his natural teeth. Dafoe's role in the film was generally well received, including a New York Daily News reviewer who felt he had "the scare in archvillain" and Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian who praised him for his "strong support." On the other hand, critic A. O. Scott wrote that his appearance was "uninspired and secondhand."

Dafoe appeared in Paul Schrader's biographical film Auto Focus, Dafoe's third collaboration with Schrader, later in 2002. Crane's favorite, John Henry Carpenter, an electronics engineer who develops a strange friendship with actor Bob Crane, sends Crane into a spiral spiral. In 2003, Dafoe appeared in the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo. Gill, a moorish idol fish that aids Nemo, a clownfish, in his fight to return home to the ocean, was portrayed by Dafoe. In Robert Rodriguez's action film Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Dafoe played a small but pivotal part as a drug cartel kingpin planning a coup d'état against President of Mexico. The murder mystery The Reckoning was Dafoe's last film of 2003, in which he appeared with Paul Bettany. The film takes place during the Middle Ages, with Dafoe playing the leader of an acting troupe that recreates the events surrounding a woman accused of witchcraft and murder who is innocent. Dafoe appeared in James Bond's James Bond's The villain Nikolai Diavolo is the voice of a villain.

Dafoe played another villainous role in The Clearing the following year, but with a more sympathetic approach. Dafoe co-starred as a man who kidnaps his former boss (played by Robert Redford) in exchange for a ransom. The film received mixed feedback, but Peter Travers felt that he added a note of "vulnerability to the threat he has made is in trade." Dafoe resurfaced in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing in a hallucination with his son Harry. Dafoe suggested the cameo, comparing it to Hamlet's father's ghost and his son's visit to ask him to avenge his father's death. Dafoe was the first film with director Wes Anderson to be seen in the comedy-drama The Life Aquatic (2004) with Steve Zissou (2004). He played Bill Murray, the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel possessed by the eponymous lead character. Dafoe appeared as a tabloid magazine editor in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator (2004), a biographical film about Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio, has a small role in the 'The Aviator's (2004), a biographical film about Howard Hughes starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Also in 2004, Dafoe narrated the film Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate, chronicling Heaven's Gate's production and co-starring Ray Liotta and Michelle Rodriguez as a neuropharmacologist. Dafoe co-starred in XXX: State of the Union (2005), an action film sequel starring Ice Cube in which Dafoe played a US Secretary of Defense attempting a coup d'état against President Obama. Critics mostly dismissed it, but Dafoe said he did not regret being in the film.

Dafoe began another actor-director relationship, this time with Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier, following the avant-garde tragedy Manderlay in 2005. In the film, Dafoe co-starred as Bryce Dallas Howard's character, a woman whose discovery of a plantation that is still thriving as if slavery hadn't been abolished. Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed, alongside his wife Giada Colagrande. Dafoe, the caretaker of a house that is inherited by the deceased owner of the deceased's lover, is involved in a sexual relationship with her. A Variety reviewer praised the film as a "wannabe haunted house tale laced with silly sex scenes" and an "embarrassment." Ripley Under Ground, his fourth and final film appearance of 2005, was the crime thriller in which he played a museum curator. Dafoe was a supporting actor in Spike Lee's 2006 crime drama Inside Man, playing a veteran captain of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit assisting in a hostage battle against a bank heist on Wall Street. In American Dreamz, a comedy satirizing both popular entertainment and American politics, Dafoe co-starred as the White House Chief of Staff. Caryn James' character was described as a "diminutive interpretation of Dick Cheney," with wire-rimmed glasses and a fringe of white hair. Juliette Binoche appeared in a short film directed by Nobuhiro Suwa as part of the 2006 anthology film Paris, je t'aime.

In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. Dafoe seemed to be "in a pantomime," according to the Hollywood Reporter, while a New York Times reviewer found him "amusing" in the role. Dafoe appeared in Abel Ferrara's Go Go Tales (2006); Manohla Dargis praised his "twitchy, sympathetic role" in the film. Dafoe, the lead villain of the Japanese animated fantasy film Tales from Earthsea, had a supporting role as a US senator in the drama The Walker, his fourth collaboration with Paul Schrader, and his fourth role in the psychological thriller Anamorph, in which Dafoe plays a detective who recognizes the situation he is investigating shares traces with a previous case of his. In a brief cameo, he reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 3 (2007). In the drama Fireflies in the Garden, which premiered in Berlinale in 2008 but wasn't announced theatrically until 2011. Dafoe was a chilly, domineering English professor with a strained relationship with his family. The film received mainly critical feedback, but the actors were generally applauded. Roger Ebert thought Dafoe was "fearsome" in the role, while Manohla Dargis felt they were "awkwardly matched" as a married couple. In Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected (2008), which starred Jeff Goldblum as a prison internee, Dafoe co-starred as a SS Nazi officer. Dafoe played Dafoe in his last release of 2008 as an American film director of Greek descent filming a film about his mother's (played by Irène Jacob) life. The cast's performances, especially Dafoe's, were unconvincing, according to critic Peter Brunette.

Dafoe appeared in seven films in 2009, the first of which was in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist. Following the death of their child, Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg played a couple whose sexually charged and sadomasochistic after retreating to a cabin in the woods. The film attracted both applause and boos at the Cannes Film Festival, and was branded the "most shocking film" to be on display at the festival due to its gruesome sex scenes. Roger Ebert praised Dafoe and Gainsbourg's performances as being "heroic and fearless." During an interview with L Magazine, Dafoe was discovered to have taken a stand in for scenes where his character's penis was on display because his own was too large. Dafoe appeared in Farewell as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency and co-starred Michael Shannon in Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have You Done?, in which he played a detective trying to figure out why a troubled man murdered his own mother. In the science fiction horror film Daybreakers, which starred Ethan Hawke as a vampire hematologist, Dafoe played a former vampire with a cure that will save the human race. Dafoe "triggers over an incredibly tense dialogue by giving the character his bizarre strangeness," Richard Corliss of Time magazine said. Dafoe appeared in Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox, starring George Clooney as the titular Roald Dahl character. Dafoe, according to freshman David Edelstein, was one of the film's highlights as a "hep-cat, knife-wielding rat security guard." Dafoe appeared in The Boondock Saints II: The Boondock Saints, making a brief cameo appearance. His last appearance of the year was in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, another film based on vampires in which Dafoe played the nefarious vampire Gavner Purl. Dafoe appeared in Richard Foreman's surrealist play Idiot Savant at The Public Theater between October and December 2009.

Dafoe appeared in two films that premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2010, making a brief appearance in Julian Schnabel's political thriller Miral, which some reviewers found to be distracting. He appeared in his wife Giada Colagrande's film A Woman. Dafoe began speaking out in 2010 and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United Kingdom.

In Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011, his third film with Ferrara. He spent his remaining hours on Earth before the world's end with his much-younger love (played by Shanyn Leigh). "There's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character," a critic of Paste said. Dafoe appeared in The Hunter, a Australian drama about a professional hunter who flies to Tasmania to hunt down the world's only remaining thylacine. "Even in the "most macho roles... [Dafoe] has a tinge of Christ-like sweetness and vulnerability," Stephen Holden wrote in his review of the film. Dafoe began narrating a series of television commercials for the Greek yogurt company Fage in 2011 and appeared in a Jim Beam commercial titled "Bold Choices." Dafoe appeared in the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi, which premiered at The Lowry in 2011. In the Disney film John Carter (2012), Dafoe played Martian chieftain Tars Tarkas, utilizing motion capture to represent the multi-limbed character. The film was a box office fiasco and ranked among the top box-office bombs of all time. Dafoe appeared in Tomorrow You're Gone, a low-budget crime drama starring Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan later this year.

Dafoe played a police officer in Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin as the titular character with supernatural powers to see the dead. Dafoe co-starred alongside Elliot Page in David Cage's Beyond: Two Souls (2013) as a paranormal activity researcher who appears as the surrogate-father figure to a girl with supernatural abilities, utilizing motion-capture acting technology. Reviewers were polarized by the game, although Dafoe and Page's success were lauded. Dafoe, a Christian Bale's role in Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), played a bookmaker operating an unlawful gambling business. Dafoe appeared in Lars von Trier's two-part erotic art film Nymphomaniac, his third and final film release of 2013. Dafoe portrayed a perverse businessman who recruits Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to serve as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism in the film. Dafoe appeared in three short student films as part of a Jameson Irish Whiskey competition in 2013. In Anton Corbijn's espionage thriller A Most Wanted Man, Dafoe portrayed a wealthy private banker with links to the Russian mafia opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. Dafoe appeared in The Grand Budapest Hotel for a third time, this time as the henchman of Adrien Brody's character in a cast led by Ralph Fiennes. Dafoe starred Matt Dillon as a detective in the crime drama Bad Country, which critic Justin Chang described as "blandly constructed."

Dafoe was one of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in May 2014, making him his first appearance at the festival. In the romantic drama In Our Stars, he was next featured as a mean-spirited, alcoholic author whose visit is being visited by two cancer patients played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort. Dafoe worked with Ferrara on the drama Pasolini, in which he played Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini during his last days before his assassination in 1975. Peter Bradshaw, a film critic, referred to Dafoe and Pasolini's physical appearance, but Dafoe's film critic complained that the Dafoe and Pasolini had too little screen time. Keanu Reeves' last film of 2014 was action thriller John Wick, in which Dafoe appears as the mentor to the titular character, a former hitman who is forced out of retirement to seek revenge for the murder of his puppy. Dafoe found that the use of a pistol fu fuet gave rise to an interesting combination of events, stating, "You have the grace of martial arts, but then the bang of the weapon." Critics, including Peter Travers, were generally in favour of his role in the film, including Peter Travers, who felt he received "ample compensation." Dafoe appeared in The Simpsons for his second time in November 2014, portraying a new school teacher who mocks Bart Simpson adamantly. Dafoe appeared in the late Brazilian filmmaker's My Hindu Friend (2015) as a film director close to death who befriends a Hindu 8-year-old boy who is hospitalized.

Dafoe and Nicolas Cage starred Dafoe and Nicolas Cage as two ex-convicts hired to kidnap a baby in Dafoe's sixth film with Paul Schrader. Dafoe revoiced his voice as Gill, a Moorish idol fish from Finding Nemo's sequel Finding Dory, in the same year. He starred in Loris Gréaud's arthouse science fiction film Sculpt, which was only shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for one individual at a time. Matt Damon's last film of the year was his best film of the year, a Chinese-American co-production directed by Zhang Yimou starring Matt Damon as a European mercenary in China fighting the Great Wall of China against a horde of monsters in which Dafoe played a former explorer working as a Chinese tutor. Dafoe appeared in another Super Bowl commercial in 2016, this time for Snickers, celebrating Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress scene from the film The Seven Year Itch.

Dafoe co-starred in Sean Baker's drama The Florida Project as the manager of a Kissimmee, Florida, that houses a volatile mother and her six-year-old daughter. "Dafoe is his best work in recent memory," the film and his actor received acclaim, with Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post remarking that "Dafoe gives his best appearance in recent memory, bringing a glimmer of hope and caring in a world markedly poor on both." Dafoe received his third Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, as well as nominations at the Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and BAFTA Awards. In addition to Netflix's Death Note and a Japanese supernatural-thriller manga of the same name, Dafoe played and narrated Ryuk, a demonic death god from Japanese mythology. Jennifer Peedom's documentary Mountain narrated him. He co-starred in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh; and he appeared in Atlantean scientist Nuidis Vulko in a deleted role in Zack Snyder's Justice League. Nuidis Vulko appeared in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman in a leading role. Dafoe appeared in Vincent van Gogh's biographical drama At Eternity's Gate, for which he received the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Actor among other accolades and distinctions. Film critics applauded his performance. Dafoe "may be the best actor around for expressing an inner life of extremism," Boston Globe writer Peter Keough said.

He appeared in Edward Norton's period crime drama Motherless Brooklyn, in which he played a key developer Moses Randolph's "beaten and broken" brother. He played a lighthouse keeper on a storm-swept island in Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson played a lighthousekeeper on a storm-swept island in the same year. At the Cannes Film Festival, it was the film and Dafoe's performance attracted a lot of attention. "Both actors are spectacular (and they work together as one), but it is Dafoe's film that has the most showboating strength," Owen Gleiberman of Variety said. In Togo, Dafoe portrayed sled dog breeder, tutor, and musher Leonhard Seppala.

Dafoe appears in Wes Anderson's ensemble period comedy The French Dispatch and Guillermo del Toro's neo-noir psychological thriller Nightmare Alley, both released in 2021, and Robert Eggers' historical epic The Northman, which was released in 2022, were both released in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all projects had to be postponed until release dates.

In 2022, Dafoe co-produced the Australian ABC television documentary 'River', which was written to highlight the precaricity of rivers around the world.

In 2020, The New York Times ranked him No. 1 in the New York Times' Top 100. In its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century, 18 are among the 18 actors selected.

Dafoe will co-star Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things in February 2021.

Dafoe starred Green Goblin from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which was released on December 17, 2021. Dafoe wore a cloak on-set to prevent his identity from being revealed in the film prematurely. Tom Holland, the film's star, became afraid after accidentally bumping into Dafoe one day on set, but only then learned of his presence. Dafoe was also digitally deaged for the character's 2002 self, as well as Alfred Molina (who reprised his role as Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus in the film).

Dafoe will host Saturday Night Live on January 29, 2022, with musical guest singer Katy Perry on January 18, 2022.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, March 27, 2024
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www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2024
In the first sneak peek at Michael Keaton's unforgettable Beetlejuice appearance in 1988's blockbuster sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. On Thursday, Warner Bros. unveiled Tim Burton's first teaser for Tim Burton's highly awaited sequel, starring Keaton, 72, Winona Ryder, 52, and Catherine O'Hara, 70. In the forthcoming film, the three long-time actors, as well as the original cast members, are joined by Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, and Jenna Ortega.

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www.dailymail.co.uk, March 14, 2024
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