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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
Norman Osborn
for Norman Osborn in Spectacular Spider-Man 6
Suggested by adrianabengozarlopez
Six months after Spectacular Spider-Man 5 Peter has become a full-on villain and when he's now being Spider-Man he's ruining all of his relationships. During a party he ends up punching Harry and after Eddie Brock gets his job since he hasn't been showing up to work, he attacks Eddie out in an alley. Soon Mj breaks up with Peter and Peter starts working with Black Cat a lot more. Meanwhile it's revealed that Norman Osborn and Fisk were the ones that gave Peter the symbiote after J. Jonah Jameson's son John Jameson. Jr came back from a mission in space he accidentally brought back an alien symbiote which the Green Goblin stole. Peter ends up getting into a fight with a criminal named Electro who ends up knocking Peter into a bell tower above a church where Peter enters his own mind and talks to Uncle Ben who reminds him that with great; power comes great responsibility and so Peter wakes up to see the noise from the bell is getting rid of the symbiote but when he gets it off it bonds with Eddie Brock who was in the church below. The movie ends with Peter seeing Eddie rampaging through New York as a giant symbiote monster calling himself Venom. Peter ends up getting Eddie to the bell tower where Peter tears the symbiote off of Eddie and it runs away, and Eddie goes to jail. Peter apologizes to everyone, and Harry and Mj forgive him knowing that Gwen and Aunt May just died recently but Mj doesn't get back together with Peter. It closes with Peter web swinging in red and blue.
