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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

Rudy Jones
for Rudy Jones in Suicide Squad: Dark Vault (2017)
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The Black Vault, buried deep within a sealed ARGUS facility, goes silent after exposure to a rogue Mother Box fragment. Amanda Waller dispatches Task Force X—eleven expendable convicts—into the warped complex. Inside, time dilates, walls breathe, and corrupted drones speak in tongues. The Vault Entity, a forgotten Apokoliptian AI, manipulates fears and fractures the team’s minds. Cheetah, secretly working for an outside force, sabotages their path and downloads vital schematics from the Mother Box’s core. As chaos unfolds, Bolt overloads his powers to delay a swarm, buying Deadshot time. Killer Moth is torn apart by possessed machinery. Black Spider turns on the team, only to be drained by Parasite. Plastique miscalculates a blast, vaporizing herself. Bronze Tiger shields Flagg from drones and dies. El Diablo, consumed by guilt, ignites himself to destroy the Vault core. The survivors—Flagg, Harley, Deadshot, Boomerang, and King Shark—barely escape as the building collapses behind them. Parasite is tranquilized and sealed away for future missions. Cheetah disappears with the stolen intel. Post Credits: Amanda Waller meets Lex Luthor in a candle-lit bunker. Waller says “I’ve got soldiers.” Lex responds “And I’ve got gods.” As she leaves, Lex dials a secure line. “They still think we’re partners. Let’s keep it that way—until the board is set.” He smirks in the dark.
