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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 ten
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While Bruce is still trying to track down the armored vigilante Azrael, a small militia force arrives and takes Gotham City over by force, closing all bridges not letting anybody in or out of the city. As Batman is relentlessly trying to take down the militia, he is also trying to find who their leader is, eventually the militia leader reveals himself as Bane. Batman begins to research and learn everything that he can about Bane in order to beat him and take his city back. Bruce eventually finds out that his name is Eduardo Dorrace who was imprisoned in Pena Duro on Santa Prisca as a baby to pay off the debt of his father. The prison was heavily influenced by the League of Assassins for their scientific experiments and they had made a chemical named Venom that gave the user the strength of 100 men and Eduardo used it to escape prison becoming addicted to it. Because he grew in a prison all he knew was pain, fighting and fear. In prison he had been forced to fight in a ring to the death against other prisoners so he always felt the need to fight and defeat whoever he viewed as the best, leading him to Gotham to break the bat and prove he is the best and strongest- and he succeeds, breaking Batman's back and freeing every inmate of Arkham Asylum, and took over Gotham because he viewed the harsh, fearful, city as close to his own home of Pena Duro.
