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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 Eleven
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After having his back broken by the venom fueled monster of a man Bane, The Batman is widely considered dead, even by those closest to him such as Alfred and the rest of the Bat-Family, with them having to live in safe houses across Gotham which has been deemed a no man’s land uninhabitable by the US Government. AfterBane freed all of Arkham Asylum the criminals are running rampant doing whatever they please in the chaotic city. The only person who hasn’t given up hope that Bruce is alive is Tim Drake who ditches the Robin moniker in order to find his mentor, even finding a way out of Gotham to search for him after discovering that League of Assassins leader Ra’s Al Ghūl had been in Gotham. While this is happening Bruce wakes up in the LoA headquarters being trained back into health by Ra’s who tells him the only way to beat Bane is with Venom. When Tim finds Bruce they head back to Gotham and discover that Azrael had taken it upon himself to takeover as The Batman, but has been killing every criminal he came across, so Bruce must stop the wannabe Batman and the monstrous Bane at any cost- and eventually gives in using the Venom to beat Bane.
