Mississippi Burning (1988) - FBI Agent Alan Ward.The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Jesus Christ.Streets of Fire (1984) - Raven Shaddock.The Hitchhiker (1983 - 1987) - Jeffrey Hunt note Season 3, Episode 6.Heaven's Gate (1980) - Willy (film debut).His wife since 2005, Giada Colagrande, is an actress and film director in her own right.Īlso, his name sounds like a frog talking to a parrot. In 2019, he received his very first Best Leading Actor Academy Award nomination for portraying Vincent van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor three times for Platoon in 1986, for Shadow of the Vampire in 2000 and for The Florida Project in 2017. He also became part of Wes Anderson's stock company, starring in The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014 along with many well-known actors/actresses. In 2013, he provided the voice and motion capture for Nathan Dawkins in the video game Beyond: Two Souls with Elliot Page. Since then he's appeared in a number of more prominent performances, as well as finding himself in demand for voice-over work (while many note his unusual features, his voice is equally memorable and distinct). This was his first blockbuster role, which made him a mainstream success, and for the first time, a household name. He became obscure in The '90s, but returned to mainstream attention when he appeared in the highly successful Spider-Man where he turned in a memorable performance as Norman Osborn and the Green Goblin. He found himself typecast as villains, while occasionally doing character turns, and in other cases appearing in small scene-stealing cameos (such as as the gas station attendant in existenz).

It stands out in either case, as one of the very few films where he plays the main lead when the majority of his career after that has been as a character actor and supporting actor.

working with major auteurs and roles that interested him. It's the face of a psychopath.' Critics, though, generally praised his performance, and Dafoe credits it for starting his interest in being a 'director's actor', i.e. After watching Dafoe's performance in the film, Sergio Leone was heard to remark 'That's not the face of our Lord. His first major leading role was Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, where even though he had not yet been established for playing villains, his unusual features were highly remarked upon. Elias in Platoon would net him his first Oscar nomination. He first got major attention in The '80s, appearing in a number of controversial, cult, and edgy films, including The Loveless, Streets of Fire, and To Live and Die in LA. William James Dafoe (born Jin Appleton, Wisconsin), known professionally as 'Willem' Dafoe, is an Academy Award-nominated American film, stage, and voice actor, and a member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.

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