Actor
Willem Dafoe
Biography

William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/də-FOH or /ˈdeɪfoʊ/ DAY-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 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 Sch ...

Known For
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The Legend of Ochi

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Super Ultra Cool Guys - A Salisbury Story

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Nosferatu: An Inside Look

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Nosferatu

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Saturday Night

Acting
2025 -- The Legend of Ochi | Maxim
2025 -- Super Ultra Cool Guys - A Salisbury Story |
2024 -- Nosferatu: An Inside Look | Self
2024 -- Nosferatu | Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
2024 -- Saturday Night | David Tebet
2024 -- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Jackson
2024 -- Kinds of Kindness | Raymond / George / Omi
2024 -- Finally Dawn | Rufo Priori
2023 -- Poor Things | Godwin Baxter
2023 -- Interior (The Spectator) | Narrator
2023 -- Gonzo Girl | Walker Reade
2023 -- Pet Shop Days | Francis
2023 -- Asteroid City | Saltzburg Keitel
2023 -- The Wild One | Narrator (voice)
2023 -- Inside | Nemo
2022 -- Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone |
2022 -- Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus | Self / Grand Duc
2022 -- Dead for a Dollar | Joe Cribbens
2022 -- 7 Deaths of Maria Callas | Film Actor
2022 -- Il coraggio di essere Franco |
2022 -- Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home | Self
2022 -- The Northman | Heimir the Fool
2022 -- Finding Satoshi | Narrator
2022 -- Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious | Self
2021 -- Spider-Man: No Way Home | Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
2021 -- Nightmare Alley | Clem Hoatley
2021 -- The French Dispatch | Albert 'the Abacus'
2021 -- Why Are We (Not) Creative? | Self
2021 -- River | Narrator
2021 -- The Card Counter | Gordo
2021 -- Maresco / Pasolini | Self
2021 -- Zack Snyder's Justice League | Vulko
2020 -- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Self
2020 -- Sportin' Life | Self
2020 -- Wim Wenders, Desperado | Self
2020 -- Siberia | Clint
2020 -- Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago |
2020 -- The Last Thing He Wanted | Richard McMahon
2020 -- The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale | Self
2020 -- Tommaso | Tommaso
2019 -- Togo | Leonhard Seppala
2019 -- Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee | Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage)
2019 -- Vincent van Gogh Superstar | Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
2019 -- Motherless Brooklyn | Paul Randolph
2019 -- The Lighthouse | Thomas Wake
2019 -- Love, Antosha | Self
2019 -- Manou the Swift | Manou's Father (voice)
2018 -- Opus Zero | Paul
2018 -- Aquaman | Nuidis Vulko
2018 -- At Eternity's Gate | Vincent van Gogh
2018 -- Brothers in Arms | Self
2018 -- Friedkin Uncut | Self
2018 -- Vox Lux | Narrator (voice)
2018 -- Theatron. Romeo Castellucci |
2018 -- Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project |
2017 -- Mountain | Narrator (voice)
2017 -- Murder on the Orient Express | Gerhard Hardman
2017 -- The Florida Project | Bobby
2017 -- Piazza Vittorio | Himself
2017 -- Death Note | Ryuk (voice)
2017 -- What Happened to Monday | Terrence Settman
2017 -- Ballad of a Righteous Merchant | Self
2017 -- Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait | Self
2017 -- Sanctuary | Narrator
2016 -- The Great Wall | Ballard
2016 -- Dog Eat Dog | Mad Dog
2016 -- Father | James Verdun
2016 -- A Family Man | Ed Blackridge
2016 -- Sculpt |
2016 -- Finding Dory | Gill (voice)
2016 -- Nelson Algren Live | Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
2016 -- My Hindu Friend | Diego Fairman
2016 -- Mind the Gap | Self
2015 -- Fukushima: A Nuclear Story | Narrator
2015 -- The Making of A Most Wanted Man | Self
2015 -- Don't F*#% With John Wick | Self
2015 -- John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry | Self
2014 -- John Wick | Marcus
2014 -- Bad Country | Bud Carter
2014 -- Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini
2014 -- SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg | (archive footage)
2014 -- A Most Wanted Man | Tommy Brue
2014 -- The Fault in Our Stars | Peter van Houten
2014 -- The Grand Budapest Hotel | Jopling
2013 -- The Benaki Museum | Narrator (voice)
2013 -- Nymphomaniac: Vol. II | L
2013 -- Out of the Furnace | John Petty
2013 -- Love's Routine | Barry
2013 -- The Smile Man | Willem
2013 -- Saving Norman | Lionel Pembrooke
2013 -- Odd Thomas | Wyatt Porter
2012 -- Tomorrow You're Gone | The Buddha
2012 -- Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic | Self
2012 -- 4:44 Last Day on Earth | Cisco
2012 -- John Carter | Tars Tarkas
2011 -- The Hunter | Martin David
2010 -- Miral | Eddie
2010 -- A Woman | Max Oliver
2010 -- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Detective Hank Havenhurst
2010 -- The Making of Daybreakers | Self
2010 -- Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World | Narrator
2010 -- Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage)
2010 -- Daybreakers | Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
2009 -- The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | Paul Smecker (uncredited)
2009 -- Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | Gavner Purl
2009 -- Fantastic Mr. Fox | Rat (voice)
2009 -- Farewell | Feeney
2009 -- Antichrist | He
2008 -- The Dust of Time | A
2008 -- Adam Resurrected | Commandat Klein
2008 -- Fireflies in the Garden | Charles Waechter
2007 -- To Each His Own Cinema | (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
2007 -- Cannes: All Access | Self
2007 -- Voom Portraits | Self
2007 -- Anamorph | Stan Aubray
2007 -- The Procedure | Christopher
2007 -- Go Go Tales | Ray Ruby
2007 -- Spider-Man 3 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2007 -- Mr. Bean's Holiday | Carson Clay
2007 -- The Walker | Larry Lockner
2006 -- Paris Je T'aime | Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
2006 -- Inside Man | John Darius
2006 -- American Dreamz | Chief of Staff
2005 -- Ripley Under Ground | Neil Murchison
2005 -- Before It Had a Name | Leslie
2005 -- Manderlay | Grace's Father
2005 -- This Is an Adventure | Self
2005 -- Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal | Self
2005 -- Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
2005 -- xXx: State of the Union | Gen. George Octavius Deckert
2005 -- On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' | Self / Klaus D.
2004 -- The Aviator | Roland Sweet
2004 -- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Klaus Daimler
2004 -- Control | Dr. Michael Copeland
2004 -- The Misbehavers | Self
2004 -- Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate | Narrator (voice)
2004 -- The Clearing | Arnold Mack
2004 -- Spider-Man 2 | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2004 -- The Reckoning | Martin
2003 -- Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.' | Himself
2003 -- Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty |
2003 -- Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Armando Barillo
2003 -- Overnight | Self
2003 -- Finding Nemo | Gill (voice)
2003 -- Rockets Redglare! | Self
2002 -- Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure | Hunter (voice)
2002 -- Auto Focus | John Carpenter
2002 -- The Spider-Man Story | Self
2002 -- Spider-Man | Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
2002 -- Spider-Mania | Self
2002 -- Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' | Self
2001 -- Edges of the Lord | Priest
2001 -- Pavilion of Women | Father Andre
2001 -- A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' | Self
2000 -- Animal Factory | Earl Copen
2000 -- Bullfighter | Father Ramirez
2000 -- Shadow of the Vampire | Max Schreck
2000 -- American Psycho | Donald Kimball
1999 -- eXistenZ | Gas
1999 -- New Rose Hotel | X
1999 -- The Boondock Saints | Paul Smecker
1999 -- Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle | Narrator
1998 -- Lulu on the Bridge | Dr. Van Horn
1998 -- Affliction | Rolfe Whitehouse
1998 -- Abel/Asia | Self (archival footage)
1997 -- Speed 2: Cruise Control | Geiger
1996 -- Victory | Axel Heyst
1996 -- The English Patient | David Caravaggio
1996 -- Basquiat | The Electrician
1995 -- The Night and the Moment | Lo scrittore
1994 -- Clear and Present Danger | John Clark
1994 -- Tom & Viv | Tom Eliot
1993 -- Faraway, So Close! | Emit Flesti
1993 -- Brace Up! | Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
1993 -- White Homeland Commando | Karl
1993 -- Body of Evidence | Frank Dulaney
1993 -- Rhyme 'Em to Death |
1992 -- Light Sleeper | John LeTour
1992 -- White Sands | Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
1992 -- North on Evers |
1991 -- Flight of the Intruder | Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
1990 -- Wild at Heart | Bobby Peru
1990 -- Cry-Baby | Hateful Guard
1989 -- Born on the Fourth of July | Charlie
1989 -- Triumph of the Spirit | Salamo Arouch
1988 -- Mississippi Burning | Agent Alan Ward
1988 -- Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ | Self
1988 -- The Last Temptation of Christ | Jesus
1988 -- Off Limits | Buck McGriff
1987 -- Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Elephant Grass (voice)
1986 -- Platoon | Sergeant Elias Grodin
1985 -- To Live and Die in L.A. | Eric Masters
1985 -- O Panama |
1984 -- Roadhouse 66 | Johnny Harte
1984 -- Streets of Fire | Raven Shaddock
1984 -- New York Nights | Boyfriend
1984 -- The Loveless | Vance
1984 -- Atalanta Strategy | Immigration Staff
1983 -- The Hunger | 2nd Phone Booth Youth
1980 -- Heaven's Gate | Willy (uncredited)
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