Actor
Willem Dafoe
Known for Acting
Born 1955-07-22 in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
Age 71
Mostly Horror, Drama
2Films in catalog
200Credits
1980 to 2026Years active
133Trailers on Reactr
Biography
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).
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Tenzing
2026
as Colonel John Hunt
The Birthday Party
2026 · Trailer
as Marcos Timoleon
The Resurrection of Christ
2026
The Souffleur
2026 · Trailer
as Lucius
The Man in My Basement
2025 · Trailer
as Anniston Bennett
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 · Trailer
as Knave
Grande Envie
2025 · Trailer
as Count
The Legend of Ochi
2025 · Trailer
as Maxim
Zero
2025 · Trailer
as (voice)
Pet Shop Days
2025 · Trailer
as Francis
Nosferatu: An Inside Look
2024
as Self
Nosferatu
2024 · Trailer
as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
run 002
2024
Saturday Night
2024 · Trailer
as David Tebet
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Trailer
as Jackson
Kinds of Kindness
2024 · Trailer
as Raymond / George / Omi
Can Creativity Save the World?
2024 · Trailer
as Self
Finally Dawn
2024 · Trailer
as Rufo Priori
Poor Things
2023 · Trailer
as Godwin Baxter
Gonzo Girl
2023
as Walker Reade
Asteroid City
2023 · Trailer
as Saltzburg Keitel
The Wild One
2023 · Trailer
as Narrator (voice)
Inside
2023 · Trailer
as Nemo
Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
2022
as Self / Grand Duc
Dead for a Dollar
2022 · Trailer
as Joe Cribbens
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022 · Trailer
as Self
The Northman
2022 · Trailer
as Heimir the Fool
Finding Satoshi
2022
as Narrator
Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
2022
as Self
Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021 · Trailer
as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Nightmare Alley
2021 · Trailer
as Clem Hoatley
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 · Trailer
as Albert 'the Abacus'
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
as Self
The Card Counter
2021 · Trailer
as Gordo
River
2021 · Trailer
as Narrator
Maresco / Pasolini
2021
as Self
Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021 · Trailer
as Vulko
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
as Self
Sportin' Life
2020 · Trailer
as Self
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020 · Trailer
as Self
Siberia
2020 · Trailer
as Clint
Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020 · Trailer
The Last Thing He Wanted
2020 · Trailer
as Richard McMahon
The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale
2020
as Self
Tommaso
2020 · Trailer
as Tommaso
Togo
2019 · Trailer
as Leonhard Seppala
Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019
as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Motherless Brooklyn
2019 · Trailer
as Paul Randolph
The Lighthouse
2019 · Trailer
as Thomas Wake
Love, Antosha
2019 · Trailer
as Self
Manou the Swift
2019
as Manou's Father (voice)
Opus Zero
2018 · Trailer
as Paul
Aquaman
2018 · Trailer
as Nuidis Vulko
At Eternity's Gate
2018 · Trailer
as Vincent van Gogh
Brothers in Arms
2018
as Self
Friedkin Uncut
2018 · Trailer
as Self
Vox Lux
2018 · Trailer
as Narrator (voice)
Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018 · Trailer
Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project
2018
as Self
Mountain
2017 · Trailer
as Narrator (voice)
Murder on the Orient Express
2017 · Trailer
as Gerhard Hardman
The Florida Project
2017 · Trailer
as Bobby
Piazza Vittorio
2017
as Himself
Death Note
2017 · Trailer
as Ryuk (voice)
What Happened to Monday
2017 · Trailer
as Terrence Settman
Ballad of a Righteous Merchant
2017
as Self
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
2017 · Trailer
as Self
The Great Wall
2016 · Trailer
as Ballard
Dog Eat Dog
2016 · Trailer
as Mad Dog
Father
2016 · Trailer
as James Verdun
A Family Man
2016 · Trailer
as Ed Blackridge
Sculpt
2016
Finding Dory
2016 · Trailer
as Gill (voice)
Nelson Algren Live
2016
as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
My Hindu Friend
2016
as Diego Fairman
The Making of A Most Wanted Man
2015
as Self
Don't F*#% With John Wick
2015
as Self
John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry
2015
as Self
John Wick
2014 · Trailer
as Marcus
Bad Country
2014 · Trailer
as Bud Carter
Pasolini
2014 · Trailer
as Pier Paolo Pasolini
A Most Wanted Man
2014 · Trailer
as Tommy Brue
The Fault in Our Stars
2014 · Trailer
as Peter van Houten
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 · Trailer
as Jopling
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013 · Trailer
as L
Out of the Furnace
2013 · Trailer
as John Petty
Love's Routine
2013
as Barry
The Smile Man
2013
as Willem
Odd Thomas
2013 · Trailer
as Wyatt Porter
Tomorrow You're Gone
2012 · Trailer
as The Buddha
Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic
2012
as Self
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012 · Trailer
as Cisco
John Carter
2012 · Trailer
as Tars Tarkas
The Hunter
2011 · Trailer
as Martin David
Miral
2010 · Trailer
as Eddie
A Woman
2010
as Max Oliver
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · Trailer
as Detective Hank Havenhurst
The Making of Daybreakers
2010
as Self
Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World
2010
as Narrator
Daybreakers
2010 · Trailer
as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009 · Trailer
as Paul Smecker (uncredited)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009 · Trailer
as Gavner Purl
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Trailer
as Rat (voice)
Farewell
2009 · Trailer
as Feeney
Antichrist
2009 · Trailer
as He
The Dust of Time
2008 · Trailer
as A
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Trailer
as Commandat Klein
Fireflies in the Garden
2008
as Charles Waechter
Go Go Tales
2008 · Trailer
as Ray Ruby
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Trailer
as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Ripley Under Ground
2007
as Neil Murchison
Cannes: All Access
2007
as Self
Voom Portraits
2007
as Self
Anamorph
2007 · Trailer
as Stan Aubray
Spider-Man 3
2007 · Trailer
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007 · Trailer
as Carson Clay
The Walker
2007 · Trailer
as Larry Lockner
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Trailer
as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
Inside Man
2006 · Trailer
as John Darius
American Dreamz
2006 · Trailer
as Chief of Staff
Before It Had a Name
2005
as Leslie
Manderlay
2005 · Trailer
as Grace's Father
This Is an Adventure
2005
as Self
Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal
2005
as Self
Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005 · Trailer
as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
xXx: State of the Union
2005 · Trailer
as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'
2005
as Self / Klaus D.
The Aviator
2004 · Trailer
as Roland Sweet
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004 · Trailer
as Klaus Daimler
Control
2004
as Dr. Michael Copeland
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
The Misbehavers
2004
as Self
Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004
as Narrator (voice)
The Clearing
2004 · Trailer
as Arnold Mack
Spider-Man 2
2004 · Trailer
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'
2004
as Self
The Reckoning
2004 · Trailer
as Martin
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'
2003
as Self
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003 · Trailer
as Armando Barillo
Overnight
2003 · Trailer
as Self
Finding Nemo
2003 · Trailer
as Gill (voice)
Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002
as Hunter (voice)
Auto Focus
2002 · Trailer
as John Carpenter
The Spider-Man Story
2002
as Self
Spider-Man
2002 · Trailer
as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Spider-Mania
2002
as Self
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002
as Self
Edges of the Lord
2001
as Priest
Pavilion of Women
2001 · Trailer
as Father Andre
A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'
2001
as Self
Animal Factory
2000 · Trailer
as Earl Copen
Bullfighter
2000
as Father Ramirez
Shadow of the Vampire
2000 · Trailer
as Max Schreck
American Psycho
2000 · Trailer
as Donald Kimball
eXistenZ
1999 · Trailer
as Gas
New Rose Hotel
1999 · Trailer
as X
The Boondock Saints
1999 · Trailer
as Paul Smecker
Lulu on the Bridge
1998
as Dr. Van Horn
Affliction
1998 · Trailer
as Rolfe Whitehouse
Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997 · Trailer
as Geiger
Victory
1996
as Axel Heyst
The English Patient
1996 · Trailer
as David Caravaggio
Basquiat
1996 · Trailer
as The Electrician
The Night and the Moment
1995 · Trailer
as The Writer
Clear and Present Danger
1994 · Trailer
as John Clark
Tom & Viv
1994 · Trailer
as Tom Eliot
Faraway, So Close!
1993 · Trailer
as Emit Flesti
Brace Up!
1993
as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
Body of Evidence
1993 · Trailer
as Frank Dulaney
Light Sleeper
1992 · Trailer
as John LeTour
Blast 'Em
1992
as Self (uncredited)
White Sands
1992 · Trailer
as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Flight of the Intruder
1991 · Trailer
as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
Wild at Heart
1990 · Trailer
as Bobby Peru
Cry-Baby
1990 · Trailer
as Hateful Guard
Born on the Fourth of July
1989 · Trailer
as Charlie
Triumph of the Spirit
1989
as Salamo Arouch
Mississippi Burning
1988 · Trailer
as Agent Alan Ward
The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 · Trailer
as Jesus
Off Limits
1988
as Buck McGriff
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987
as Elephant Grass (voice)
Platoon
1986 · Trailer
as Sergeant Elias Grodin
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 · Trailer
as Rick Masters
O Panama
1985
Roadhouse 66
1984 · Trailer
as Johnny Harte
Streets of Fire
1984 · Trailer
as Raven Shaddock
New York Nights
1984 · Trailer
as Boyfriend
The Loveless
1984 · Trailer
as Vance
Atalanta Strategy
1984
as Immigration Staff
The Hunger
1983 · Trailer
as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
Heaven's Gate
1980 · Trailer
as Willy (uncredited)
White Lies
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Tropico
Release date to be announced
as Raymond
Time Out
Release date to be announced
Cuddle
Release date to be announced
as Dante
American Nails
Release date to be announced
The Sleeping Shepherd
Release date to be announced
A Christmas Carol
Release date to be announced
as Ebenezer Scrooge
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