🎬Embeth Davidtz

Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men.

In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The film had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, in Lafayette, Indiana, to South African parents John and Jean, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. The family later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then to South Africa when Davidtz was nine years old

Davidtz has Dutch, English, and French ancestry. She had to learn Afrikaans before attending school classes in South Africa, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University. Davidtz graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983 and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.

In 1992, Davidtz played the part of Sheila in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness alongside Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. The third movie in the Evil Dead franchise would eventually become a big cult classic worldwide. In 1993, Davidtz played the role of Helen Hirsch in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.

In 1995, Davidtz had a central role in the fact-based film Murder in the First, and the Merchant Ivory Productions Feast of July.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Retribution (2023)	Heather Turner		5.1
2	Not Okay (2022)	Judith		6.8
3	Old (2021)	Adult Maddox		6.3
4	Schindler's List: 25 Years Later (2018)	Self	-	-
5	The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)	Mary Parker		6.8
6	Paranoia (2013)	Judith Bolton		5
7	Europa Report (2013)	Dr. Samantha Unger		6.3
8	The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)	Mary Parker		7.1
9	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Oscars 2012	Annika Blomkvist Giannini		7.7
10	Winged Creatures (2009)	Lydia Jaspersen		7
11	Fracture (2007)	Jennifer Crawford		7.2
12	Junebug (2005) Oscars 2006	Madeleine		8.3
13	The Emperor's Club (2002)	Elizabeth		8.3
14	Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) Oscars 2002	Natasha		6.6
15	The Hole (2001)	Dr. Philippa Horwood		6.1
16	Thir13en Ghosts (2001)	Kalina		6.9
17	Bicentennial Man (1999) Oscars 2000	Little Miss / Portia		7.3
18	Mansfield Park (1999)	Mary Crawford		6.9
19	The Gingerbread Man (1998)	Mallory Doss		6.3
20	Fallen (1998)	Gretta Milano		7.3
21	Matilda (1996)	Miss Honey		7.6
22	Murder in the First (1995)	Mary McCasslin		7
23	Schindler's List (1993)	Helen Hirsch		8.7
24	Till Death Us Do Part (1992)	Katherine Palliko	-	-
25	Army of Darkness (1992)	Sheila		7.7
26	Sweet Murder (1990)	-	-	-