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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 Nine
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After Hush had murdered Jack Drake, Tim retires from the role of Robin thinking that it only brought him pain. His girlfriend Stephanie Brown has taken over the role. At the same time a new villain calling himself Anarky has been rallying people to stand against Gotham thinking that the only way to make Gotham better is to overthrow the corrupt government and a lot of people are on his side and agree, Batman resolves the issue and discovers that he is a 16 year old named Lonnie Machin, who's parents are officials in the city. Bruce sends him to Arkham but the riots he began kept going with the support not diminishing. While this is going on Stephanie finds out about a new vigilante group that has formed among certain students at their school calling themselves "We Are Robin" inspired by Batman’s partners to fight crime. Tim meets with their leader Duke Thomas and tells him to disband the group but he refuses and they keep going eventually though they catch the attention of the Joker and he murders Duke's father and drives most of the others insane with Joker Gas. Steph then gets Bruce involved and he begins to train Duke and makes The Signal. But after helping to stop the Joker Tim decides to return as Robin and Steph decides to return to her role as Spoiler. Anarky escapes Arkham and begins to lead the riots again and the Bat-Family has to cover all Gotham to stop the riots and they eventually get everything back under control and they send Machin back to Arkham
