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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 Three
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Set one year after the events of season two. Dick and Barbara are now getting ready to graduate from high school and while Barbara is fine and has decided to stay in Gotham and continue crime fighting as usual, Dick is uncertain about his future, he is wanting to go to college and wants to escape Batman’s shadow and prove himself a hero in his own right but Bruce expects him to stay in Gotham and continue as partners. While this is happening the crime boss Sal Maroni escapes from prison and sets his sights on the man who put him away, the now DA Harvey Dent. Maroni kidnaps Dent and plans to murder him but Batman arrives before they do, but in the chaos and gunfire Harvey is knocked over into a pool of acid, burning and disfiguring half of his body- and mind. This event turns him into the villain Two-Face, and he blames Batman for his condition, Dent also makes the discovery that Batman is his best friend Bruce Wayne and he kidnaps Wayne’s daughter Helena and threatens her. I’m the midst of this, Dick is told a story of an old vigilante from Blüdhaven by Lucias Fox, the vigilante’s name is Nightwing and Fox encourages Dick to leave and become his own man, and hero, and even makes him a new suit to represent this new identity. So despite Bruce’s feelings about Dick leaving, they must put their differences aside in order to save Bruce’s daughter and defeat his former friend.
