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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
Norman Osborn
for Norman Osborn in Ultimate Spider-Man 7
Suggested by lucasbarnett
1 year after Ultimate Spider-Man 6 Miles Morales has been working with people like Daredevil to stop the criminal underworld but every time he tries to get close, he fails and eventually decides to get the Avengers involved but they refuse to help because it is more of a street level threat. Meanwhile Martin Lee and Tombstone have been working on a project to stop Spider-Man once and for all. Martin Lee goes into a secret vault in his penthouse where it's revealed he's been trying to power up Electro's powers. Meanwhile we see in a cell underneath Fisk Industries Falicia Hardy is chained to the wall and has been tortured to the point where she has given up trying to escape but suddenly the ceiling is blown up and Daredevil saves her. It turns out Daredevil has also been working against Fisk and has done a way better job than Miles and now Fisk is now going to prison. Falicia and Daredevil find Miles and tell him, but they are attacked by Electro. They fight him off for a while but all he cares about is killing Miles. Miles and Max fight for a while until they end up in an old abandoned Oscorp power plant where Miles tries everything, he can to escape but is cornered by Electro and just as he's about to die Miles's hands start glowing and using all the energy around him Miles grabs Electro and absorbs his powers with his. Max ends up on the ground without memory of what happened, and Miles leaves ready to end Martin and Tombstone for good.
