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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 Demon of Hoia Baciu (Voice)
for The Demon of Hoia Baciu (Voice) in Dracula : Legacy of the Dragon
Suggested by jeanpaulvalley
In the early 2010s, excavations launched by Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Transylvania discovered, in the castle of Vlad Tépès, the possible presence of the tomb of the Impaler. The Professor's protege, Mina Harker, and some members of her group will be forced, under armed threat from her colleague Renfield and mercenaries, to go to the Count's grave. Not heeding the professor's warnings, Renfield awakens the powerful vampire with his blood, the creature frightening the mercenaries who shoot at him, this only having the effect of angering him. As Van Helsing, Mina and others escape, Dracula easily kills the mercenaries before Renfield saves his life by explaining to him that he is a servant wanting to help him, intriguing the Count. He uses the researcher's knowledge to try to better understand his world, when he is shocked to find that Transylvania is secretly under the control of the betraying vampire, Nosferatu, and extremely well-armed mercenaries. He wants to restore order to the blood but, after being summoned by Van Helsing, a group of extraordinary beings intervene, telling him that he had better act as a hero for all. This, and the fact that Mina looks like exactly to his late wife, will make Dracula question himself. If these people, considered monsters for their appearance, fight for good as heroes... shouldn't he do the same ?
