Age: 70
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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
The Joker
for The Joker in Arkham Asylum a Serious House on Serious Earth
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One night, after one of the Joker’s absolute worst crimes yet, The Batman is racing him back to Arkham. But once he is handed off to the doctors, things go south very quickly as the power goes out. Batman is locked into the mad house, as everybody escapes. Bruce is forced to fight his entire rogues gallery, and to figure out what caused the chaos. But the culprit reveals themselves to him, as the Arkham Knight, and that they are determined to kill the Batman. Throughout the night, Bruce attempts to find out the identity of the masked figure. He eventually discovers that it is the daughter of the Asylum’s warden, Astrid Arkham. When she was a child, there was a similar breakout where she watched as a batarang killed her mother, not knowing it was used by an inmate. She grew up surrounded by psychopaths she saw as her family, and tended to the wounds that the Batman inflicted upon them, which caused her to hold a deep hatred towards the caped crusader leading to this, where she enacted her plan to kill the vigilante. After their battle, Astrid’s plan backfires on her and she sustains life threatening injuries, Bruce tries to save her but she ends her own life, refusing to be saved by the man she despises more than anything.
