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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).
AdamBrashearwasachildprodigybeingthesmartestmanintheworldbythetimehewasateenager But when he was 19 he was drafted into the Korean War he was approached by agents from project PEGASUS to help them build a dimension transporter. He built them the machine and it was capable of teleporting anything or anyone to another dimension that he had discovered and named the Negative Zone When no one would test the machine he took it into his own hands and went there by himself When he was there he was imbued with insane amounts of radiation that should have killed him but instead he was given incredible powers more than had ever been seen When he returned and told his best friend and Conner Sims he became jealous and went there to get the same powers but the machine was damaged from the last trip when Sims attempted to use it and it collapsed in on him leaving him trapped inside it in the Negative Zone for years. After his girlfriend finds out about this she encourages him to become a hero and use them to protect people He keeps this going for a few years and becomes the beloved superhero Blue Marvel but one day he is fighting a villain and his helmet breaks revealing his identity When this happens people begin to turn on Brashear and public perception of him changes Eventually it gets bad enough that president JFKreluctantly asks him to step down and no longer be a hero Adam only asks for one thing for funds to rebuild the machine and retrieve his friend
