Willem Dafoe

71 years old Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

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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Recent movies

# Name Character Rating
1 The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Knave 6.3
2 The Legend of Ochi (2025) Maxim 6
3 Nosferatu (2024) Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz 7.3
4 Saturday Night (2024) David Tebet 6.4
5 Kinds of Kindness (2024) Raymond / George / Omi 6.8
6 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Jackson 7.3
7 Finally Dawn (2024) Rufo Priori -
8 Asteroid City (2023) Saltzburg Keitel 7
9 Inside (2023) Nemo 6.2
10 Poor Things (2023)
Top 100 by FilmGator 		Godwin Baxter 8.2
11 Dead for a Dollar (2022) Joe Cribbens 5.3
12 The Northman (2022)
Most waited movies 2022 		Heimir the Fool 7
13 Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home (2022) Self 7
14 Nightmare Alley (2021) Clem Hoatley 7
15 Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Top 100 by FilmGator 		Norman Osborn / Green Goblin 8.6
16 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) Albert 'the Abacus' 7.1
17 The Card Counter (2021) Gordo 5.8
18 Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Top 100 by FilmGator 		Vulko 7.9
19 The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) Richard McMahon 5.4
20 Siberia (2020) Clint -
21 Love, Antosha (2019) Self -
22 The Lighthouse (2019) Thomas Wake 7.6
23 Motherless Brooklyn (2019) Paul Randolph 7.3
24 Manou the Swift (2019) Manou's Father (voice) -
25 Togo (2019) Leonhard Seppala 8.1
26 Vox Lux (2018) Narrator (voice) 6.6
27 At Eternity's Gate (2018) Vincent van Gogh 7.1
28 Aquaman (2018) Nuidis Vulko 7.1
29 Friedkin Uncut (2018) Self -
30 Opus Zero (2018) Paul -
31 Mountain (2017) Narrator (voice) 6
32 The Florida Project (2017) Bobby 7.3
33 What Happened to Monday (2017) Terrence Settman 7.2
34 Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Gerhard Hardman 6.8
35 Death Note (2017) Ryuk (voice) 4.6
36 Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait (2017) Self 3
37 A Family Man (2016) Ed Blackridge 7
38 The Great Wall (2016) Ballard 6.3
39 Finding Dory (2016) Gill (voice) 7.6
40 Dog Eat Dog (2016) Mad Dog 5.3
41 Don't F*#% With John Wick (2015) Self -
42 Fukushima: A Nuclear Story (2015) Narrator -
43 Pasolini (2014) Pier Paolo Pasolini 5
44 A Most Wanted Man (2014) Tommy Brue 6.2
45 The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Peter van Houten 8
46 The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Top 100 by FilmGator 		Jopling 8.1
47 Bad Country (2014) Bud Carter 5.5
48 John Wick (2014) Marcus 7.9
49 The Smile Man (2013) Willem -
50 Odd Thomas (2013) Wyatt Porter 7.1
51 Love's Routine (2013) Barry -
52 Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013) L 6.7
53 Out of the Furnace (2013) John Petty 6.1
54 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012) Cisco 2
55 Tomorrow You're Gone (2012) The Buddha -
56 John Carter (2012) Tars Tarkas 6.8
57 The Hunter (2011) Martin David 6.7
58 Daybreakers (2010) Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac 6.8
59 Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World (2010) Narrator -
60 Miral (2010) Eddie 8
61 A Woman (2010) Max Oliver -
62 The Making of Daybreakers (2010) Self -
63 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) Detective Hank Havenhurst 5
64 Antichrist (2009) He 6.4
65 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) Paul Smecker (uncredited) 6.2
66 Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Oscars 2010 		Rat (voice) 7.7
67 Farewell (2009) Feeney -
68 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) Gavner Purl 6.2
69 Go Go Tales (2008) Ray Ruby 6
70 Adam Resurrected (2008) Commandat Klein 6.7
71 Fireflies in the Garden (2008) Charles Waechter 6
72 Spider-Man 3 (2007) Green Goblin / Norman Osborn 6.2
73 The Walker (2007) Larry Lockner 3.5
74 Anamorph (2007) Stan Aubray 4.3
75 To Each His Own Cinema (2007) (segment "Occupations") (archive footage) -
76 Ripley Under Ground (2007) Neil Murchison -
77 Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) Carson Clay 6
78 Inside Man (2006) John Darius 7.5
79 American Dreamz (2006) Chief of Staff 5.1
80 Paris Je T'aime (2006) Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires) 8
81 Manderlay (2005) Grace's Father 7.6
82 Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal (2005) Self -
83 This Is an Adventure (2005) Self -
84 On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' (2005) Self / Klaus D. -
85 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2005) Willem Dafoe (uncredited) -
86 xXx: State of the Union (2005) Gen. George Octavius Deckert 4.9
87 Control (2004) Dr. Michael Copeland 5.8
88 The Clearing (2004) Arnold Mack 6
89 The Reckoning (2004) Martin 6.3
90 The Aviator (2004)
Oscars 2005 		Roland Sweet 7.1
91 Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Oscars 2005 		Green Goblin / Norman Osborn 7.2
92 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) Klaus Daimler 7.2
93 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) Armando Barillo 6.3
94 Finding Nemo (2003)
Top 100 by FilmGator 		Gill (voice) 8.1
95 Overnight (2003) Self 6
96 Auto Focus (2002) John Carpenter 6.5
97 Spider-Man (2002)
Oscars 2003 		Green Goblin / Norman Osborn 7.5
98 Pavilion of Women (2001) Father Andre 5
99 Edges of the Lord (2001) Priest -
100 A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001) Self -
101 Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Oscars 2001 		Max Schreck 6.9
102 Bullfighter (2000) Father Ramirez -
103 American Psycho (2000) Donald Kimball 7.7
104 Animal Factory (2000) Earl Copen 6
105 eXistenZ (1999) Gas 7
106 New Rose Hotel (1999) X 6.5
107 The Boondock Saints (1999) Paul Smecker 7.6
108 Affliction (1998)
Oscars 1999 		Rolfe Whitehouse 6.6
109 Lulu on the Bridge (1998) Dr. Van Horn -
110 Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) Geiger 4.9
111 The English Patient (1996) David Caravaggio 7.2
112 Basquiat (1996) The Electrician 6
113 Clear and Present Danger (1994) John Clark 6.7
114 Tom & Viv (1994) Tom Eliot -
115 Faraway, So Close! (1993) Emit Flesti 7
116 Body of Evidence (1993) Frank Dulaney 7
117 Light Sleeper (1992) John LeTour 8
118 White Sands (1992) Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal 5
119 North on Evers (1992) - 4
120 Flight of the Intruder (1991) Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole 7
121 Wild at Heart (1990) Bobby Peru 6.8
122 Cry-Baby (1990) Hateful Guard 6.9
123 Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Charlie 6.8
124 Triumph of the Spirit (1989) Salamo Arouch -
125 The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Jesus 6.6
126 Mississippi Burning (1988) Agent Alan Ward 8.2
127 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987) Elephant Grass (voice) -
128 Platoon (1986) Sergeant Elias Grodin 7.9
129 To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) Rick Masters 7.2
130 The Loveless (1984) Vance 6
131 Streets of Fire (1984) Raven Shaddock 5
132 Roadhouse 66 (1984) Johnny Harte -
133 New York Nights (1984) Boyfriend -
134 The Hunger (1983) 2nd Phone Booth Youth 6.4
135 Heaven's Gate (1980) Willy (uncredited) 6.7