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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 Fifteen
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After David Cain tried to prove himself a worthy successor to Ra's Al Ghul by killing the Batman by using his daughter only for her to see Bruce as her father and he failed. Ra's attempts to convince Bruce to come back to the League and become his heir by introducing Brue to his son- Damian Wayne. The son that Bruce had with Ra's daughter Talia. Ra's leaves the child there to try and bring Bruce back and join the head of the demon in "saving" the world from humanity. After this bombshell revelation Bruce must learn what to do now that he has a son who was raised to become an assassin his entire life and teach him not to murder his enemies. Since Carrie Kelley was currently Robin Damian viewed the role as his birthright and beat her to near death. Batman had to stop his son before he killed her. Kelley decided that Damian needed to take the role of Robin so that he could learn to become better and to get past his assassin conditioning so she steps down from the role and decides to go to college and becomes the vigilante Misfit. Now making Damian his Robin Bruce sets out to fix his homicidal son. Then one day when When Talia comes to Gotham to retrieve her son and see if Bruce will return with them Damian decides to stay in Gotham with his father.
