On some level, I'm a sensation junkie. Official Sites Yes, because it's logical. And it may be temporary, and you have no illusion." The rest of the team uses a model that's a variation of the adidas sl-72. [Klaus jumps into the water to get Steve, still wearing all of his normal clothes and not bothering to take his shoes off]. [152] Dafoe once again collaborated with Ferrara on the drama Pasolini, in which he played Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini during his last days before his murder in 1975. Roger Ebert praised Dafoe's "gifted" portrayal of LeTour and Owen Gleiberman opined that "even when the film doesn't gel, one is held by Willem Dafoe's grimly compelling performance. [18] Dafoe was only present for the first three months of an eight-month shoot. "[8] His brother, Donald Dafoe, is a transplant surgeon and researcher. : And that doesn't mean I'm not analytical or that I'm anti-intellectual. : Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group. [82] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. [140], In 2013, Dafoe played a police officer in the supernatural thriller Odd Thomas, starring Anton Yelchin as the titular character that possesses supernatural powers to see the dead. I've always thought of you two as my dads. Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' [17], Dafoe began his film career in 1979, when he was cast in a supporting role in Michael Cimino's epic Western film Heaven's Gate. - On preparation for the characters he plays. Where's Esteban? Has worked with seven directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: He sticks to an all-organic, vegan diet except for the rare occasion when he indulges in a fried lake perch sandwich. And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else.". In the cult film The Boondock Saints (1999), he portrayed a detective tracking down two renegade killers who believe their actions to be righteous. The film was positively received by critics and Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times wrote that "Dafoe steals the picture with his comic timing". Dafoe was critically lauded for his performances in a number of controversial films released in the late 1980s. That adventurous spirit continues with upcoming films including Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Abel Ferrara's Siberia, and Paul Schrader's The Card Counter.Dafoe is one of the founding members of The Wooster Group, the New York based experimental theatre collective. [19] His role, that of a cockfighter who works for Jeff Bridges' character, was removed from a majority of the film during editing but was visible during a cockfight scene. [9] He has English, French, German, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Klaus Daimler : Do you still want to blow him up? : When I try to explain what I do, I get a little bit disgusted with myself because I come off too earnest. Filming & Production [79] IGN's Richard George commented that Green Goblin's armor, particularly the helmet, was "almost comically bad Not only is it not frightening, it prohibits expression". [shouting] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post found the scene to be one of the film's highlights. Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. I always like to mix it up. [20] Dafoe did not receive a credit for his work on the film. It's really true; there's no accounting for taste. Dafoes numerous credits from 2016 included the crime drama Dog Eat Dog and the fantasy thriller The Great Wall, about monsters attacking the Great Wall of China. He played Christ in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)a film based on Nkos Kazantzkiss revisionist novel of Christs life and relationship with Mary Magdaleneand starred as an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of civil rights activists in the 1960s in Mississippi Burning (1988). Steve Zissou [12] Only after becoming an actor did he take the second interpretation as his stage name. In 2009 Dafoe starred in von Triers controversial Antichrist, which centres on a couple who struggle to cope with the death of a child. [117] During an interview with L Magazine, it was revealed Dafoe had a stand in for scenes where his character's penis was on screen as his own was too big. The film follows a pair of United States Navy pilots, played by Dafoe and Johnson, who scheme and participate in an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi. [23] Later in 1985, Dafoe starred with William Petersen and John Pankow in William Friedkin's thriller To Live and Die in L.A., in which Dafoe portrays a counterfeiter named Rick Masters who is being tracked by two Secret Service agents. If you're not asking those questions you're not growing. [136][137] Dafoe played Martian chieftain Tars Tarkas in the Disney film John Carter (2012), using motion capture to portray the multi-limbed character. What's the deal? No, we're out of dynamite anyway. [37][38] Dafoe reunited with Platoon director Oliver Stone for a small appearance in the biographical war drama Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Yes, I am. Dafoes subsequent roles included a mercenary in pursuit of a Tasmanian tiger in the Australian thriller The Hunter (2011) and an animated Martian warrior, portrayed through the motion-capture technique, in the sci-fi adventure John Carter (2012). Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Moved to New York in 1977 and soon after founded the Wooster Group which has toured America and the world,. [163] Also in 2016, Dafoe appeared in another Super Bowl commercial, this time for Snickers, recreating Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress scene from the film The Seven Year Itch. : In the film, Dafoe played a perverse businessman who hires Charlotte Gainsbourg's character to work as a debt collector using sex and sadomasochism. [12] There he apprenticed under Richard Schechner, director of the avant-garde theater troupe The Performance Group, where he met and became romantically involved with Elizabeth LeCompte. [60] Also in 1997, Dafoe took on a voice acting role in an episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons titled "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", voicing the commandant of a military academy that Bart and Lisa Simpson are attending. He played the "hilariously doltish" German first mate of a research vessel owned by the eponymous lead character, who is played by Bill Murray. It does a funny thing because you're not refining one way of seeing you. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA. Frequently portrays psychotic villains or wounded mentors. He and his wife, director Giada Colagrande, have made three films together: Padre, A Woman, and Before It Had A Name.His natural adventurousness is evident in roles as diverse as Marcus, the elite assassin who is mentor to Keanu Reeves in the neo-noir John Wick; in his voice work as Gil the Moorish Idol in Finding Nemo and Ryuk the Death God in Death Note; as Paul Smecker, the obsessed FBI agent in the cult classic The Boondock Saints; and as real life hero Leonhard Seppala, who led the 1925 Alaskan dog sled diphtheria serum run in Ericson Core's Togo. I think it's criminal that Steve allowed this to happen, by which I mean illegal. I'm always very fond of laconic, cut-off characters that have a rich inner life, and you have to restrain that. I'm gonna fight you, Steve. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [170][171] He later played Nuidis Vulko in a leading role in James Wan's 2018 film Aquaman. Well, there are a lot of things that are important to some people around here, sonny. Elias Grodin in Oliver Stones Platoon (1986), which earned Dafoe his first Academy Award nomination. The English Patient was filmed in Tuscany, where Dafoe said he particularly enjoyed the "quiet moments in the monastery between shoots". [33], 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. By Sean O'Connell. Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. He played a tormented T.S. : [59] For his next film, Affliction (1997), Dafoe worked with Paul Schrader for a second time, playing the brother of Nick Nolte's character and served as the film's narrator. [174] Owen Gleiberman of Variety said "Both actors are sensational (and they work together like one), but in terms of sheer showboating power its Dafoes movie. Willem mentioned that whoever dropped out did so to be in a project that ended up flopping, so maybe if we look at flops around that time and compare their actors to Wes' familiar roster we can find out who it is. Dafoe played the Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the corporation Oscorp, becoming the Green Goblin after testing an unstable strength enhancer on himself, turning him insane and making him extremely powerful. From 1977 to 2004, . Oh Do it again. Willem Dafoe is one of these actors, and in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, he plays one of the movie's most beloved characters, Klaus Daimler. He then narrated Australian documentarian Jennifer Peedom's documentary Mountain. [88] Dafoe was next seen in the comedy-drama The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), his first of three films with director Wes Anderson. As a 12-year old, he attended the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, better known as the Ice Bowl, one of the most famous games in pro football history. [139] Later in 2012, Dafoe co-starred in the low-budget crime thriller Tomorrow You're Gone with Stephen Dorff and Michelle Monaghan. Steve Zissou : I doubt it. [Steve bursts to the surface from an underwater dive, shouting hysterically]. Browse shows and movies that include Willem Dafoe, such as The Northman, Spider-Man: No Way Home and more. No! It's like going to a cocktail party - you know who's going to be there, you have certain expectations about the topics of conversation and the social dynamic. 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He made his film debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), but was fired during production. You're down with them. It's one of those invented things. 3 Antichrist (2009) Nordisk Film Distribution. The film delves into fiction when, over the course of Nosferatu's production, the cast and crew come to discover that Schreck is actually a vampire himself. Super durable and water-resistant. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. Klaus Daimler [130], Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011 was in Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his third film with Ferrara. [48] 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. [131] Dafoe then starred in the Australian drama The Hunter, playing a professional hunter who travels to Tasmania to hunt down the world's only remaining thylacine. [to the camera] Fresh Air critic David Edelstein felt Dafoe was one of the film's highlights as a "hep-cat, knife-wielding rat security guard". - On his acting style. In the drama Pavilion of Women, he played an American priest living in China who falls in love with a local married woman (played by the film's screenwriter Luo Yan) while giving her son a Western education. The film garnered a poor reaction critics, with a reviewer for Paste stating "there's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character". [10] His surname, Dafoe, is the Anglicized version of the Swiss Thvou. [101], In 2007, Dafoe played a pretentious film director in the British comedy film Mr. Bean's Holiday, starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. [133][134][135] Dafoe starred alongside Marina Abramovi and Gretchen Mol in the play The Life and Death of Marina Abramovi, which premiered at The Lowry in 2011. Official Sites, Prominent cheekbones and serpentine smile, Deeply lined face that can be contorted to frightening effect, Frequently portrays soldiers or eccentric characters. He is of mostly German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. : [87] Dafoe reprised his role as Norman Osborn in Spider-Man 2 (2004), appearing to his son Harry in an hallucination. The critic Peter Brunette felt the cast's performances, especially Dafoe's, were unconvincing. On principle I don't have favorites. [56] In 1997, Dafoe returned to playing a villainous role in the action thriller Speed 2: Cruise Control, expressing the necessity of appearing in both independent and blockbuster films. The film and his performance received enormous critical acclaim, with The Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday writing that "Dafoe delivers his finest performance in recent memory, bringing to levelheaded, unsanctimonious life a character who offers a glimmer of hope and caring within a world markedly short on both". married to Giada Colagrande (2005present), This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willem-Dafoe, Turner Classic Movies - Biography of Willem Dafoe. : Dafoe also had to wear a prosthetic teeth for his part as Norman whereas the hallucinations of the character had Dafoe in his natural teeth. I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy. [186][187] Amelia Emberwing of IGN praised the performances of Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx in No Way Home,[188] while Vulture's Bilge Ebiri said Dafoe "once again gets to have some modest fun with his character's divided self". [52], "I really made a conscious effort to mix it up, not because in itself it's not the job of an actor to do all different things, but for me that's what I'm interested in. One of his more visually unsettling films, Dafoe plays He in Lars von Trier's Antichrist. If you ever touch me again, I will kick your goddamn teeth out. It's a way of just fitting in socially. The film received a polarized response from critics and audiences,[114] receiving both applause and boos at the Cannes Film Festival and was called the "most shocking movie" to be shown at the festival because of its graphic sex scenes. Brother, Donald Dafoe, is an accomplished transplant surgeon. There's a funny perception that I play bad guys, but if you really know my movies, the big and small ones, the truth is often I play good guys. : His character in the film served as the main antagonist, who captures the ex-girlfriend of a mercenary, played by Diane Lane and Michael Par, respectively. Cate Blanchett as Jane Winslett-Richardson Anjelica Huston as Eleanor Zissou Willem Dafoe as Klaus Daimler Jeff Goldblum as Alistair Hennessey Michael Gambon as Oseary Drakoulias Bud Cort as Bill Ubell, Bond Company Stooge Noah Taylor as Vladimir Wolodarsky Seu Jorge as Pel dos Santos Robyn Cohen as Anne-Marie Sakowitz Much of the film's critical praise went to Dafoe; Roger Ebert wrote that Dafoe "embodies the Schreck of Nosferatu so uncannily that when real scenes from the silent classic are slipped into the frame, we don't notice a difference". : In 2019, he had a supporting role in Edward Norton's period crime drama Motherless Brooklyn where he played powerful developer Moses Randolph's "beaten and broken" brother. | [95], With the avant-garde drama Manderlay in 2005, Dafoe began another actor-director collaboration, this time with Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. Klaus Daimler William James Dafoe (/ d f o /; born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. [160] He next played the boss of Gerard Butler's character in the drama A Family Man and starred in Loris Graud's arthouse science fiction film Sculpt, which was only screened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for one person at a time. [159] In the same year, Dafoe reprised his voice role as Gill, a Moorish idol fish, from Finding Nemo in its sequel Finding Dory. [96] Along with his wife Giada Colagrande, Dafoe co-wrote and starred in Before It Had a Name (2005), which Colagrande directed. : [71] The Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opined felt the film's "only redeeming quality" was Dafoe's "enjoyably over-the-top, eye-rolling performance". [138] The film was a box office failure and ranks among the biggest box-office bombs of all time. Willem Dafoe, original name William J. Dafoe, (born July 22, 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor known for his versatility and willingness to appear in controversial roles. [115][116] Roger Ebert commended Dafoe's and Gainsbourg's performances as being "heroic and fearless". Anonymous, Other Works 1/8 inch (3.2mm) white border around each design. American actor, comedian, writer, and director. : That's the craft, and it's a bit like voodoo, because you don't know exactly how you do it. Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast: Willem Dafoe on a busy year that included "Nightmare Alley" and . Has English, French, German, Irish, Northern Irish, Scottish and Swiss-French ancestry. [2004, on selection parts] I'm always looking for an adventure-I try not to work just to work. [143] In Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), starring Christian Bale, Dafoe played the supporting role of a bookmaker running an illegal gambling operation. [2007]. That's true. Marc Maron "It keeps you honest. Built sets and acted with experimental Milwaukee, Wisconsin group Theatre X, before moving to New York in 1977, where he worked with the Wooster Group at the Performing Garage. [41] Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman felt the role proved Dafoe as a "master of leering, fish-faced villainy". : DAFOE: You clearly weren't into rehearsal. But I'm getting too serious. [126] Also in 2010, Dafoe began voicing Clarence, the Birds Eye polar bear mascot in the company's television commercials in the United Kingdom,[129] and narrated Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World, a Ric Burns documentary about the history of the whaling industry in the United States. Willem Dafoe, original name William J. Dafoe, (born July 22, 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor known for his versatility and willingness to appear in controversial roles. [108] Dafoe starred with Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, and Emily Watson in the drama Fireflies in the Garden, which premiered at Berlinale in 2008 but was not released theatrically until 2011. 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