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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
Green Goblin
for Green Goblin in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Teenager Miles Morales struggles to live up to the expectations of his father, Officer Jefferson Davis, who sees Spider-Man as a threat. Miles moves to boarding school, but after school he usually runs off to his uncle Aaron Davis' house. When he takes Miles to an abandoned subway station to graffiti the walls, Miles is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains spider skills. Miles returns to the station to look for the spider and finds a particle accelerator called "The Super-Collider" built by Wilson Fisk, who plans to access parallel universes to find alternative versions of his late wife and son, who died in a car accident afterwards that they found him trying to kill Spider-Man. Spider-Man tries to deactivate the collider while fighting the police of Fisk, a giant mutant version of the Green Goblin and the Sneaker. Spider-Man saves Miles and realizes their similarities. The Goblin pushes the Spider into the collider, causing an explosion that almost kills him. Injured, Spider-Man gives Miles a USB device to disable the accelerator and warns
