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Cate Blanchett as Jane Winslett-Richardson Anjelica Huston as Eleanor Zissou Willem Dafoe as Klaus Daimler Jeff Goldblum as Alistair Hennessey Michael Gambon as Oseary Drakoulias Bud Cort as Bill Ubell, Bond Company Stooge Noah Taylor as Vladimir Wolodarsky Seu Jorge as Pel dos Santos Robyn Cohen as Anne-Marie Sakowitz Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival in 2007. Dafoe played a paraplegic, wheelchair-using Vietnam veteran who befriends the film's subject Ron Kovic (played by Tom Cruise), another paraplegic veteran. Esteban! [shocked] [49] Dafoe then co-starred in the spy thriller Clear and Present Danger (1994), an adaptation of the Tom Clancy novel of the name starring Harrison Ford as CIA operative Jack Ryan. Dafoes subsequent roles included a mercenary in pursuit of a Tasmanian tiger in the Australian thriller The Hunter (2011) and an animated Martian warrior, portrayed through the motion-capture technique, in the sci-fi adventure John Carter (2012). She, with her former romantic partner Spalding Gray and others, edged out Schechner and created the Wooster Group. [72] Dafoe received numerous awards and nominations for his performance, including his second Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. Official Sites [10] His surname, Dafoe, is the Anglicized version of the Swiss Thvou. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. I hear what you're saying, but I think you misjudge the guy. [86], The following year, Dafoe took on another villainous role in The Clearing, albeit with a more sympathetic approach. Like the novel, the film sparked controversy for departing from the biblical portrayal of Jesus and was branded as being blasphemous. Vikram, is that thing rolling? Because no one can mak. We'll split into two groups. 1/8 inch (3.2mm) white border around each design. Dafoes numerous credits from 2016 included the crime drama Dog Eat Dog and the fantasy thriller The Great Wall, about monsters attacking the Great Wall of China. [39], Dafoe made a cameo appearance in John Waters' musical comedy Cry-Baby (1990) as a prison guard who gives a brief lecture on values to the title character, who is played by Johnny Depp. No! Dafoe was critically lauded for his performances in a number of controversial films released in the late 1980s. I'm gonna fight you, Steve. A balanced diet of different roles and different stories and movies - I think it's the way to stay healthy artistically and career wise. | [82] Dafoe provided his voice to the computer-animated Pixar film Finding Nemo in 2003. DAFOE: I must admit you had me puzzled a lot of the time. Yeah? William James Dafoe[2] was born on July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin. [143] In Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace (2013), starring Christian Bale, Dafoe played the supporting role of a bookmaker running an illegal gambling operation. [161][162] His final film of the year was the monster film The Great Wall, a Chinese-American co-production directed by Zhang Yimou starring Matt Damon as a European mercenary in China defending the Great Wall of China from a horde of monsters, in which Dafoe played a former adventurer working as a teacher in China. In the simplest terms, it's a pleasure to borrow someone else's body and someone else's life. : [44] In his next starring role, Paul Schrader's drama Light Sleeper, Dafoe played John LeTour, a lonely, insomniac, New Yorker working as a delivery man for a drug supplier, who is played by Susan Sarandon. published July 18, 2017. There he met the actress and director Elizabeth LeCompte, who founded the deconstructionist theatre company the Wooster Group, with which Dafoe later performed. : The film was met with a mixed reception from critics, although Caryn James of The New York Times felt that Dafoe's "stunningly sharp, sympathetic portrait raises the film above a script that is full of serious holes and stilted dialogue". William James Dafoe (/dfo/;[1] born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. The first to be released, White Sands, saw Dafoe a play small-town sheriff who impersonates a dead man after finding his dead body and a suitcase containing $500,000 to solve the case, resulting in an FBI investigation. [1] Life and career [ edit] LeCompte was born and grew up in New Jersey. Osborn is a family friend of Spider-Man's secret identity Peter Parker as Osborn's son, Harry Osborn (played by James Franco), is a close friend of Parker. Willem Dafoe, original name William J. Dafoe, (born July 22, 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S.), American actor known for his versatility and willingness to appear in controversial roles. Please don't let any one make fun of me for saying so. : [138] The film was a box office failure and ranks among the biggest box-office bombs of all time. The film garnered a poor reaction critics, with a reviewer for Paste stating "there's only so much depth [Dafoe] can bring to such a shallow character". It's like going to a cocktail party - you know who's going to be there, you have certain expectations about the topics of conversation and the social dynamic. Klaus Daimler It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. [189], On January 18, 2022, it was announced that Dafoe would host Saturday Night Live on January 29, 2022, with musical guest singer Katy Perry.[190]. : Later that year he provided the voice of a rat in Fantastic Mr. Fox, Andersons animated film adaptation of Roald Dahls childrens book, and he appeared as a vampire hunter in the horror movie Daybreakers (2009). It follows X (Dafoe) and Fox (Walken), a pair of corporate raiders attempting to lure a Japanese scientist from one megacorporation to another. [15] Dafoe would continue with the Wooster Group into the 2000s. [43] Dafoe had two lead roles in 1992. [151] He was next featured in a supporting role as a mean-spirited, alcoholic author who is visited by a pair of cancer patients, who are played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars. [73], Dafoe took on two leading roles in 2001, both of which were as priests. [173] In the same year, he played a lighthouse keeper on a storm-swept island in Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson. : Steve Zissou The story concerns a lawyer, played by Dafoe, who engages in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship with the woman he is representing in a murder case. In 2021 he was featured in another Anderson film, The French Dispatch, playing a crooked accountant. But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. Dafoe portrayed John Henry Carpenter, an electronics expert who develops a strange friendship with the actor Bob Crane, leading Crane into a downward spiral. But sometimes the most important thing is just having a good costume. [41] He wore fake, corroded teeth and grew a pencil moustache that bore resemblance to his previous collaborator, John Waters. I try to avoid anyone that pokes around-filmmaking should be an opportunity to make something that's very thrilling and, you know, exciting. Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg played a couple whose relationship becomes increasingly sexually violent and sadomasochistic after retreating to a cabin in the woods following the death of their child. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Both are often in relentless pursuit of their goals. [23] Later in 1985, Dafoe starred with William Petersen and John Pankow in William Friedkin's thriller To Live and Die in L.A., in which Dafoe portrays a counterfeiter named Rick Masters who is being tracked by two Secret Service agents. He is of Scottish, French, English, Irish, and . As a 12-year old, he attended the 1967 NFL Championship Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers, better known as the Ice Bowl, one of the most famous games in pro football history. [122] Dafoe reprised his role from The Boondock Saints in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, making a brief cameo appearance. [115][116] Roger Ebert commended Dafoe's and Gainsbourg's performances as being "heroic and fearless". *Chewed*! Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. 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Steve Zissou Steve Zissou The film received mixed reviews, although Peter Travers felt that he added a note of "vulnerability to the menace he has made his stock in trade". : I think it's criminal that Steve allowed this to happen, by which I mean illegal. : [74] He then starred opposite Haley Joel Osment in Edges of the Lord, playing a compassionate priest helping a young Jewish boy pose as a Catholic to protect him during Nazi Germany's occupation of Poland. [84] The murder mystery The Reckoning was Dafoe's final film of 2003, in which he starred with Paul Bettany. He played Christ in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)a film based on Nkos Kazantzkiss revisionist novel of Christs life and relationship with Mary Magdaleneand starred as an FBI agent investigating the disappearance of civil rights activists in the 1960s in Mississippi Burning (1988). Decorate and personalize laptops, windows, and more. - On his career. Omissions? 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