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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
Joker
for Joker in Tales of the Bat-Family Season Eight
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One night the Dynamic Duo was trying to stop a hostage situation by the criminal Cluemaster and they receive help from a new vigilante calling herself the Spoiler. When Cluemaster escapes she goes after him and they lose track of them. When a string of murders appears Batman tasks Tim with figuring out who she is. The murder victim had their face surgically removed then bandages wrapped around their head with the word HUSH painted on them in blood. All of the victims are in the uppermost classes among the richest and most powerful in Gotham and Batman begins to investigate these murders he figures out that it is his childhood friend Tommy Elliot who had been sent to Arkham as a child for killing his parents. One night Hush breaks in to Wayne Manor and finds Barbara babysitting Tiffany Fox and when he is about to kill them he is stopped by Lucius but it came at the cost of his life. Bruce then goes to Harvey Dent for help, hoping that he can break through to his old friend who had stayed in touch with Tommy better than Bruce. Eventually Harvey tells Bruce where Tommy had last been living and they come to a stand off when suddenly Hush is shot in the back by Harvey, who had escaped Arkham in order to help and they put Hush back into Arkham, where he is then quickly dispatched by an assassin clad in black and gold. While this is going on, Tim finds out that she is the daughter of Cluemaster Stephanie Brown. They then defeat Cluemaster and begin a relationship
