Willem Dafoe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Willem Dafoe
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Jul 22, 1955(1955-07-22)
Age	69
Birthplace	Appleton
Country	United States
Birth City	Wisconsin
Horoscope	Cancer

Willem Dafoe Biography

Willem Dafoe is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on July 22, 1955 in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. Actor, who gained fame for his quirky characters as the Green Goblin in The Boondock Saints, Wild at Heart as well as The Hunter. His character in the role of Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin in the 2002 film Spider-Man earned him an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Villain.

He was featured in the movie Body Of Evidence with He appeared in the film Body Of Evidence with Madonna..

William James “Willem” Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his distinct gravelly voice, and has received multiple accolades, including nominations for four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, and Wes Anderson.

In 1977, Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982. They separated in 2004 and were never married because “to her, marriage represented ownership”.

He said his parents raised him by five sisters due to the fact that his parents were busy working at the hospital. He arranged for a spontaneous marriage to the actress He claimed that he was raised by his five sisters because his parents were too busy working in the hospital. He spontaneously married actress Giada Colagrande in 2005 after meeting her in Rome a year earlier. He has a son named Jack. in 2005, after having met her in Rome just a year before. His son is called Jack.

Willem Dafoe Net Worth

Willem Dafoe is one of the richest Movie Actor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Willem Dafoe 's net worth $40 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He left his studies at the University of Wisconsin to join the company of a theatre. After the move into New York City, he began to date Elizabeth LeCompte.

He was a character on the film The Aviator and provided his voice over for his voice in the Pixar movie Finding Nemo.

William James Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. One of eight children of Muriel Isabel (née Sprissler) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe (1917–2014), he recalled in 2009: “My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn’t see either of them much.” His brother, Donald Dafoe, is a transplant surgeon and researcher. He has English, French, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. His surname is of French origin. In high school, he acquired the nickname Willem, which is the Dutch version of the name William. During an interview he explained that about half of the Dafoe family puts the emphasis on the first syllable of their surname, and the other half on the second. Only after becoming an actor, he took the second interpretation as his stage name.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Willem Dafoe Dating?

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In his final release of 1988, Dafoe starred opposite Gene Hackman in the crime thriller Mississippi Burning as a pair of FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three civil rights workers in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi during the civil rights movement. Variety magazine praised Dafoe’s performance, writing, “Dafoe gives a disciplined and noteworthy portrayal of Ward”, although they felt it was Hackman “who steals the picture”. As with The Last Temptation of Christ, the film became embroiled in controversy, this time by African-American activists who criticized its fictionalization of events. Dafoe was briefly considered for the role of the super-villain the Joker in the Tim Burton-directed superhero film Batman (1989), as screenwriter Sam Hamm noticed physical similarities, but was never offered the part that eventually went to Jack Nicholson. Dafoe starred in the drama Triumph of the Spirit in 1989 as Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch, an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate who was forced to fight other internees to death for the Nazi officers’ entertainment. It was filmed on location at Auschwitz, the first major film to do so. While the film was negatively received, Dafoe’s performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a “disciplined performance” and Janet Maslin thought he was “harrowingly good”. Dafoe reunited with Platoon director Oliver Stone for a small appearance in the biographical war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Dafoe played a paraplegic, wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran who befriends the film’s subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran.

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Dafoe next starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna. The story concerns a lawyer, played by Dafoe, who engages in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he is representing in a murder case. The film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office, with some audience members laughing during the sex scenes. In his review of the film, Vincent Canby felt that Dafoe lacked sensuality in the role. Later in 1993, Dafoe appeared in a supporting role as Emit Flesti (an anagram of Time Itself) in the German fantasy film Faraway, So Close!, directed by Wim Wenders. Dafoe then co-starred in the spy thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA operative Jack Ryan. Dafoe played John Clark, a CIA agent conducting a covert operation against a drug cartel in Colombia with Jack Ryan. Dafoe portrayed the poet T. S. Eliot in the drama Tom & Viv (also in 1994), which tells the story of Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne Haigh- Wood Eliot, who was played by Miranda Richardson. The film was met with a mixed reception from critics, although Caryn James of The New York Times felt that Dafoe’s “stunningly sharp, sympathetic portrait raises the film above a script that is full of serious holes and stilted dialogue”. In 1995, he played an 18th-century writer in the period drama The Night and the Moment.

What is Willem Dafoe's accent?

“I can still speak Wisconsin,” said Dafoe. The actor made his debut as SNL host and spoke in what he considered his “ Wisconsin accent ” during his monologue.

Why did Willem Dafoe change his name?

“When I was a kid, I was always seeking a nickname.” A friend of his came up with a solution, calling him Willem. Dafoe says the nickname was really just a lazy pronunciation of his actual name, but the subtle shift was good enough for him. The new name stuck. So when he became an actor, it was too late to go back.

What is Willem Dafoe famous for?

He gained prominence for his role in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), in which he played a counterfeiter attempting to elude capture by the police. Perhaps his best-known role was as Sgt. Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986), which earned Dafoe his first Academy Award nomination.

What is Willem Dafoe's nationality?

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What is a pirate accent?

The classic “pirate dialect,” in fact, is not Irish, but rather a crude imitation of the slightly similar West Country English (the dialects of Southwest England)*.