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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 Fourteen
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Six months clean from Venom Bruce and Carrie are back to normal as the dynamic duo Then one day a masked assassin breaks in to the Batcave trying to kill the Batman and she comes very close, but him, Tim, and Carrie are able to subdue the assassin and lock her up, when they remove her mask they find that she is fourteen years old. She is unable to speak but she understands language- all languages. Bruce then runs a DNA sample and finds out she is Cassandra Cain, daughter of two of the greatest assassins and fighters the world had ever known David Cain and Lady Shiva and she was breed to be the best there is and was abused by her father her entire life, taught only to fight and survive and read body language, not to speak. When her father realizes that she failed her mission and embarrassed him in front of the League of Assassins, David goes after her to kill both her and the bat. Bruce decides to take her in and give her a better life and they stop David, in the end though Bruce decides to adopt Cassandra and she officially becomes a Wayne. During this time Gotham is still undergoing reconstruction and Bruce is developing a plan to rebuild Gotham for the better, realizing he can do more with his money than be Batman.
