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William James "Willem" Dafoe (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).
Willem Dafoe
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 007: Carte Blanche
Suggested by char94
The 1950s, following the conclusion of WW2, British espionage enters a new and revolutionary dawn with the birth of the 00 program. Technology, gadgets and vehicular combat become more prominent in a new world of secret service. An ex Nazi general, believed to be dead has fled to Greece under a new identity and appearance following disfiguring facial injuries sustained at war. He fronts an ever-growing crime organisation called Spectre under the codename 'Number 1'. MI6 are tasked with investigating the organisation after several mysterious disappearances of world leading scientists occur with ex SAS veteran James Bond (Henry Cavill) , now agent 007, spearheading the operation. Number 1's main henchman (Michael Shannon) is sent to intercept Bond but fails after the British spy delivers seemingly fatal injuries to his face and neck, removing his teeth and rupturing his vocal chords. However, he is rescued by fellow agents of Spectre and receives state of the art prosthetic teeth and skin grafts. The massive henchman is now on a rampage to get Bond, stopping at nothing. Capturing Bond's newly found love. The bait is set. It's the mission or the girl...
