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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: No Way Home: The Banani Cut
Suggested by ethelthecreator
In honor of today's trailer drop, here is my ideal cast for Spider-Man: No Way Home. After his identity is exposed to the world, its been ages since Peter Parker has donned the classic webbed suit, and is in hiding just outside New York. But when he sees other heroes wearing it and doing what he used to do, the former hero teams up with his old friends MJ (still as darkly comedic as ever) and Ned (who has changed his entire lifestyle and is almost unrecognizable), and newcomers Gwen Stacy (a girl with a mysterious past) and Harry Osborn (a rich boy with severe daddy issues) to solve the mystery. This leads them to the Sanctum Sanctorum, where none other than Doctor Strange reveals that variants of heroes are running amuck in the galaxy, and these new Spider-Men are in fact variants of Peter. And with them came the villains from their own universe, all now wrecking havoc on the Big Apple. With a new suit and new allies, Peter has everything he needs to stop the villains, get the variants back to their own timelines, and save the world once again. But is the weight too much for Peter? Or can he step up from the shadows when the world needs him once more?
