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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 Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers. Dafoe was a founding member of experimental theatre company The Wooster Group.

He made his film debut with an uncredited role in Heaven's Gate (1980). Dafoe's early career includes credits for The Loveless (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985). He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon (1986), followed by nominations for his roles in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Florida Project (2017), and the Vincent van Gogh biopic At Eternity's Gate (2018). He also gained acclaim and wide recognition for his roles as Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and as the supervillain Norman Osborn in the superhero film Spider-Man (2002), a role he reprised in its sequels Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021).

His other film appearance include roles in Mississippi Burning (1988), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Light Sleeper (1992), Body of Evidence (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), Affliction (1997), New Rose Hotel(1998), Existenz (1999), The Boondock Saints (1999), American Psycho (2000), Auto Focus (2002), Finding Nemo (2003), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Inside Man (2006), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Antichrist (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Nymphomaniac (2013), The Fault in Our Stars (2014), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Aquaman (2018), The Lighthouse (2019), Nightmare Alley (2021), Poor Things (2023), and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024).

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Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021
Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Spider-Man 2002
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Finding Nemo 2003
Gill (voice)
Spider-Man 2 2004
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Spider-Man 3 2007
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Aquaman 2018
Nuidis Vulko
Finding Dory 2016
Gill (voice)
American Psycho 2000
Donald Kimball
Inside Man 2006
John Darius
John Carter 2012
Tars Tarkas

Credit 220

2025 The Man in My Basement as Anniston Bennett

2025 Tropico as Raymond Producer

2025 The Birthday Party as Marcos Timoleon

2025 The Sleeping Shepherd

2025 Tenzing as Colonel John Hunt

2025 The Phoenician Scheme as Knave

2025 Wick Is Pain as (archive footage)

2025 The Souffleur

2025 Late Fame as Ed Saxberger

2025 American Nails

2025 The Legend of Ochi as Maxim

2025 Zero as (voice)

2025 Was Ist Kino ? as Self (Archive Footage)

2024 Nosferatu: An Inside Look as Self

2024 Jesus Goes to Hollywood as Self (archive footage)

2024 Nosferatu as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz

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2024 Saturday Night as David Tebet

2024 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as Jackson

2024 Kinds of Kindness as Raymond / George / Omi

2024 Can Creativity Save the World? as Self

2024 Finally Dawn as Rufo Priori

2023 Poor Things as Godwin Baxter

2023 Interior (The Spectator) as Narrator

2023 Gonzo Girl as Walker Reade

2023 Pet Shop Days as Francis

2023 Asteroid City as Saltzburg Keitel

2023 Lynch/Oz as Bobby Peru (archive footage) (uncredited)

2023 The Wild One as Narrator (voice)

2023 Inside as Nemo

2022 Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone

2022 Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus as Self / Grand Duc

2022 Dead for a Dollar as Joe Cribbens

2022 7 Deaths of Maria Callas as Film Actor

2022 Il coraggio di essere Franco as Sé stesso

2022 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home as Self

2022 The Northman as Heimir the Fool

2022 Finding Satoshi as Narrator

2022 Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious as Self

2021 Spider-Man: No Way Home as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

2021 Nightmare Alley as Clem Hoatley

2021 The French Dispatch as Albert 'the Abacus'

2021 Why Are We (Not) Creative? as Self

2021 The Card Counter as Gordo

2021 River as Narrator

2021 Maresco / Pasolini as Self

2021 Zack Snyder's Justice League as Vulko

2020 Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Self Associate Producer

2020 Sportin' Life as Self

2020 Wim Wenders, Desperado as Self

2020 Siberia as Clint

2020 Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

2020 The Last Thing He Wanted as Richard McMahon

2020 The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale as Self

2020 Tommaso as Tommaso

2019 Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee as Self / Norman Osborn/ Green Goblin (archive footage)

2019 Togo as Leonhard Seppala

2019 Vincent van Gogh Superstar as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)

2019 Motherless Brooklyn as Paul Randolph

2019 The Lighthouse as Thomas Wake

2019 Love, Antosha as Self

2019 Manou the Swift as Manou's Father (voice)

2018 Opus Zero as Paul

2018 Aquaman as Nuidis Vulko

2018 At Eternity's Gate as Vincent van Gogh

2018 Brothers in Arms as Self

2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self

2018 Vox Lux as Narrator (voice)

2018 The House That Jack Built Thanks

2018 Theatron. Romeo Castellucci

2018 Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project as Self

2017 Mountain as Narrator (voice)

2017 Murder on the Orient Express as Gerhard Hardman

2017 The Florida Project as Bobby

2017 Piazza Vittorio as Himself

2017 Death Note as Ryuk (voice)

2017 What Happened to Monday as Terrence Settman

2017 Ballad of a Righteous Merchant as Self

2017 Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self

2017 Sanctuary as Narrator

2016 The Great Wall as Ballard

2016 Dog Eat Dog as Mad Dog

2016 Father as James Verdun

2016 A Family Man as Ed Blackridge

2016 Sculpt

2016 Finding Dory as Gill (voice)

2016 Nelson Algren Live as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh

2016 My Hindu Friend as Diego Fairman

2016 Mind the Gap as Self

2015 Fukushima: A Nuclear Story as Narrator

2015 The Making of A Most Wanted Man as Self

2015 John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry as Self

2015 Don't F*#% With John Wick as Self

2014 John Wick as Marcus

2014 Bad Country as Bud Carter

2014 Pasolini as Pier Paolo Pasolini

2014 SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg as (archive footage)

2014 A Most Wanted Man as Tommy Brue

2014 The Fault in Our Stars as Peter van Houten

2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Jopling

2013 The Benaki Museum as Narrator (voice)

2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. I as L

2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. II as L

2013 Out of the Furnace as John Petty

2013 Love's Routine as Barry

2013 The Smile Man as Willem

2013 Saving Norman as Lionel Pembrooke

2013 Odd Thomas as Wyatt Porter

2012 Tomorrow You're Gone as The Buddha

2012 Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic as Self

2012 4:44 Last Day on Earth as Cisco

2012 John Carter as Tars Tarkas

2011 The Hunter as Martin David

2010 Miral as Eddie

2010 A Woman as Max Oliver

2010 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done as Detective Hank Havenhurst

2010 The Making of Daybreakers as Self

2010 Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World as Narrator

2010 Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self (archive footage)

2010 Daybreakers as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac

2009 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day as Paul Smecker

2009 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant as Gavner Purl

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Rat (voice)

2009 Farewell as Feeney

2009 Antichrist as He

2008 The Dust of Time as A

2008 Adam Resurrected as Commandat Klein

2008 Fireflies in the Garden as Charles Waechter

2007 To Each His Own Cinema as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)

2007 Cannes: All Access as Self

2007 Voom Portraits as Self

2007 Anamorph as Stan Aubray

2007 The Procedure as Christopher

2007 Go Go Tales as Ray Ruby

2007 Spider-Man 3 as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

2007 Mr. Bean's Holiday as Carson Clay

2007 The Walker as Larry Lockner

2006 Paris Je T'aime as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)

2006 Inside Man as John Darius

2006 American Dreamz as Chief of Staff

2005 Ripley Under Ground as Neil Murchison

2005 Before It Had a Name as Leslie Screenplay

2005 Manderlay as Grace's Father

2005 This Is an Adventure as Self

2005 Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal as Self

2005 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)

2005 xXx: State of the Union as Gen. George Octavius Deckert

2005 On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' as Self / Klaus D.

2004 The Aviator as Roland Sweet

2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as Klaus Daimler

2004 Control as Dr. Michael Copeland

2004 Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

2004 The Misbehavers as Self

2004 Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate as Narrator (voice)

2004 The Clearing as Arnold Mack

2004 Spider-Man 2 as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

2004 Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man' as Self

2004 The Reckoning as Martin

2003 Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.' as Self

2003 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico as Armando Barillo

2003 Overnight as Self

2003 Finding Nemo as Gill (voice)

2003 Rockets Redglare! as Self

2002 Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure as Hunter (voice)

2002 Auto Focus as John Carpenter

2002 The Spider-Man Story as Self

2002 Spider-Man as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

2002 Spider-Mania as Self

2002 Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' as Self

2001 Edges of the Lord as Priest

2001 Pavilion of Women as Father Andre

2001 A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' as Self

2000 Animal Factory as Earl Copen

2000 Bullfighter as Father Ramirez

2000 Shadow of the Vampire as Max Schreck

2000 American Psycho as Donald Kimball

1999 eXistenZ as Gas

1999 New Rose Hotel as X Co-Producer

1999 The Boondock Saints as Paul Smecker

1999 Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle as Narrator

1998 Lulu on the Bridge as Dr. Van Horn

1998 Abel/Asia as Self (archival footage)

1997 Affliction as Rolfe Whitehouse

1997 Speed 2: Cruise Control as Geiger

1997 Wrong Guys as Jack Straw

1996 Victory as Axel Heyst

1996 The English Patient as David Caravaggio

1996 Basquiat as The Electrician

1995 The Night and the Moment as Lo scrittore

1994 Clear and Present Danger as John Clark

1994 Tom & Viv as Tom Eliot

1993 Faraway, So Close! as Emit Flesti

1993 Brace Up! as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin

1993 White Homeland Commando as Karl

1993 Body of Evidence as Frank Dulaney

1993 Rhyme 'Em to Death

1992 Light Sleeper as John LeTour

1992 White Sands as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal

1992 North on Evers

1991 Flight of the Intruder as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole

1990 Wild at Heart as Bobby Peru

1990 Cry-Baby as Hateful Guard

1989 Born on the Fourth of July as Charlie

1989 Triumph of the Spirit as Salamo Arouch

1988 Mississippi Burning as Agent Alan Ward

1988 Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ as Self

1988 The Last Temptation of Christ as Jesus

1988 Off Limits as Buck McGriff

1987 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Elephant Grass (voice)

1986 Platoon as Sergeant Elias Grodin

1985 To Live and Die in L.A. as Rick Masters

1985 O Panama

1984 Roadhouse 66 as Johnny Harte

1984 Streets of Fire as Raven Shaddock

1984 New York Nights as Boyfriend

1984 The Loveless as Vance

1984 Atalanta Strategy as Immigration Staff

1983 The Hunger as 2nd Phone Booth Youth

1980 Heaven's Gate as Willy (uncredited)

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6.64 War 8

6.62 Documentary 48

6.50 Adventure 21

6.47 Comedy 29

6.42 Action 33

6.36 Mystery 14

6.36 Family 8

6.26 Fantasy 15

6.22 Drama 89

6.22 Thriller 45

6.17 Crime 28

6.15 Horror 9

6.07 Romance 14

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5.67 Music 3

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