Person
Willem Dafoe
Born 22 July 1955 71 years old Appleton, Wisconsin, USA Who else is 71? → TMDB ↗
William James "Willem" Dafoe (/dəˈfoʊ/ də-FOH; 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 a Volpi Cup Award for Best Actor, with nominations for four Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. He received an Honorary Golden Bear in 2018.
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25age in their first credit on record (1980)
46years on screen and counting
8credits in 2016, their busiest year
174dated credits on record
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Movie credits
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Tropico
as Raymond
The Sleeping Shepherd
Cuddle
as Dante
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A Christmas Carol
as Ebenezer Scrooge
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Time Out
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White Lies
Age: 71 Werwulf
2026
Age: 71 Tenzing
2026as Colonel John Hunt
Age: 71 Late Fame
2026as Ed Saxberger
Age: 70 The Birthday Party
2026as Marcos Timoleon
Age: 70 The Resurrection of Christ
2026
Age: 70 The Souffleur
2026as Lucius
Age: 70 Pet Shop Days
2025as Francis
Age: 70 The Man in My Basement
2025as Anniston Bennett
Age: 69 Avrio Vrady
2025as Dancing man
Age: 69 The Phoenician Scheme
2025as Knave
Age: 69 Grande Envie
2025as Count
Age: 69 The Legend of Ochi
2025as Maxim
Age: 69 Zero
2025as (voice)
Age: 69 Nosferatu
2024as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz
Age: 69 run 002
2024
Age: 69 Saturday Night
2024as David Tebet
Age: 69 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024as Jackson
Age: 68 Kinds of Kindness
2024as Raymond / George / Omi
Age: 68 Finally Dawn
2024as Rufo Priori
Age: 68 Poor Things
2023as Godwin Baxter
Age: 68 Willem Dafoe
2023
Age: 68 Gonzo Girl
2023as Walker Reade
Age: 67 Asteroid City
2023as Saltzburg Keitel
Age: 67 The Wild One
2023as Narrator (voice)
Age: 67 Inside
2023as Nemo
Age: 67 Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022
Age: 67 Dead for a Dollar
2022as Joe Cribbens
Age: 67 7 Deaths of Maria Callas
2022as Film Actor
Age: 66 Il coraggio di essere Franco
2022as Sé stesso
Age: 66 The Northman
2022as Heimir the Fool
Age: 66 Spider-Man: No Way Home
2021as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin
Age: 66 Nightmare Alley
2021as Clem Hoatley
Age: 66 The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021as Albert 'the Abacus'
Age: 66 The Card Counter
2021as Gordo
Age: 65 Zack Snyder's Justice League
2021as Vulko
Age: 64 Siberia
2020as Clint
Age: 64 Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago
2020
Age: 64 The Last Thing He Wanted
2020as Richard McMahon
Age: 64 Tommaso
2020as Tommaso
Age: 64 Togo
2019as Leonhard Seppala
Age: 64 Vincent van Gogh Superstar
2019as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)
Age: 64 Motherless Brooklyn
2019as Paul Randolph
Age: 64 The Lighthouse
2019as Thomas Wake
Age: 63 Manou the Swift
2019as Manou's Father (voice)
Age: 63 Opus Zero
2018as Paul
Age: 63 Aquaman
2018as Nuidis Vulko
Age: 63 At Eternity's Gate
2018as Vincent van Gogh
Age: 63 Vox Lux
2018as Narrator (voice)
Age: 62 Theatron. Romeo Castellucci
2018
Age: 62 Mountain
2017as Narrator (voice)
Age: 62 Murder on the Orient Express
2017as Gerhard Hardman
Age: 62 The Florida Project
2017as Bobby
Age: 62 Death Note
2017as Ryuk (voice)
Age: 62 What Happened to Monday
2017as Terrence Settman
Age: 61 The Great Wall
2016as Ballard
Age: 61 Dog Eat Dog
2016as Mad Dog
Age: 61 Father
2016as James Verdun
Age: 61 A Family Man
2016as Ed Blackridge
Age: 61 Sculpt
2016
Age: 60 Finding Dory
2016as Gill (voice)
Age: 60 Nelson Algren Live
2016as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh
Age: 60 My Hindu Friend
2016as Diego Fairman
Age: 59 John Wick
2014as Marcus
Age: 59 Bad Country
2014as Bud Carter
Age: 59 Pasolini
2014as Pier Paolo Pasolini
Age: 59 A Most Wanted Man
2014as Tommy Brue
Age: 58 The Fault in Our Stars
2014as Peter van Houten
Age: 58 The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014as Jopling
Age: 58 The Benaki Museum
2013as Narrator (voice)
Age: 58 Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013as L
Age: 58 Out of the Furnace
2013as John Petty
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Age: 57 Love's Routine
2013as Barry
Age: 57 The Smile Man
2013as Willem
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Age: 57 Saving Norman
2013as Lionel Pembrooke
Age: 57 Odd Thomas
2013as Wyatt Porter
Age: 57 Tomorrow You're Gone
2012as The Buddha
Age: 56 4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012as Cisco
Age: 56 John Carter
2012as Tars Tarkas
Age: 56 The Hunter
2011as Martin David
Age: 55 Miral
2010as Eddie
Age: 55 A Woman
2010as Max Oliver
Age: 54 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010as Detective Hank Havenhurst
Age: 54 Daybreakers
2010as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac
Age: 54 The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
2009as Paul Smecker (uncredited)
Age: 54 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
2009as Gavner Purl
Age: 54 Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009as Rat (voice)
Age: 54 Farewell
2009as Feeney
Age: 53 Antichrist
2009as He
Age: 53 The Dust of Time
2008as A
Age: 53 Adam Resurrected
2008as Commandat Klein
Age: 53 Fireflies in the Garden
2008as Charles Waechter
Age: 52 Go Go Tales
2008as Ray Ruby
Age: 52 To Each His Own Cinema
2007as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)
Age: 52 Anamorph
2007as Stan Aubray
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Age: 52 The Procedure
2007as Christopher
Age: 51 Spider-Man 3
2007as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Age: 51 Mr. Bean's Holiday
2007as Carson Clay
Age: 51 The Walker
2007as Larry Lockner
Age: 50 Paris Je T'aime
2006as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)
Age: 50 Inside Man
2006as John Darius
Age: 50 American Dreamz
2006as Chief of Staff
Age: 50 Ripley Under Ground
2005as Neil Murchison
Age: 50 Before It Had a Name
2005as Leslie
Age: 49 Manderlay
2005as Grace's Father
Age: 49 Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
2005as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)
Age: 49 xXx: State of the Union
2005as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
Age: 49 The Aviator
2004as Roland Sweet
Age: 49 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2004as Klaus Daimler
Age: 49 Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
2004
Age: 49 Control
2004as Dr. Michael Copeland
Age: 49 Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate
2004as Narrator (voice)
Age: 48 The Clearing
2004as Arnold Mack
Age: 48 Spider-Man 2
2004as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Age: 48 The Reckoning
2004as Martin
Age: 48 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2003
Age: 48 Once Upon a Time in Mexico
2003as Armando Barillo
Age: 47 Finding Nemo
2003as Gill (voice)
Age: 47 Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure
2002as Hunter (voice)
Age: 47 Auto Focus
2002as John Carpenter
Age: 46 Spider-Man
2002as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Age: 46 Edges of the Lord
2001as Priest
Age: 45 Pavilion of Women
2001as Father Andre
Age: 45 Animal Factory
2000as Earl Copen
Age: 45 Bullfighter
2000as Father Ramirez
Age: 45 Shadow of the Vampire
2000as Max Schreck
Age: 44 American Psycho
2000as Donald Kimball
Age: 43 eXistenZ
1999as Gas
Age: 43 New Rose Hotel
1999as X
Age: 43 The Boondock Saints
1999as Paul Smecker
Age: 43 Lulu on the Bridge
1998as Dr. Van Horn
Age: 42 Affliction
1998as Rolfe Whitehouse
Age: 41 Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997as Geiger
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Age: 41 Wrong Guys
1997as Jack Straw
Age: 41 Victory
1996as Axel Heyst
Age: 41 The English Patient
1996as David Caravaggio
Age: 41 Basquiat
1996as The Electrician
Age: 39 The Night and the Moment
1995as The Writer
Age: 39 Clear and Present Danger
1994as John Clark
Age: 38 Tom & Viv
1994as Tom Eliot
Age: 38 Faraway, So Close!
1993as Emit Flesti
Age: 37 Brace Up!
1993as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin
Age: 37 White Homeland Commando
1993as Karl
Age: 37 Body of Evidence
1993as Frank Dulaney
Age: 37 Rhyme 'Em to Death
1993
Age: 37 Light Sleeper
1992as John LeTour
Age: 36 White Sands
1992as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal
Age: 36 North on Evers
1992
Age: 35 Flight of the Intruder
1991as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
Age: 35 Wild at Heart
1990as Bobby Peru
Age: 34 Cry-Baby
1990as Hateful Guard
Age: 34 Born on the Fourth of July
1989as Charlie
Age: 34 Triumph of the Spirit
1989as Salamo Arouch
Age: 33 Mississippi Burning
1988as Agent Alan Ward
Age: 32 The Last Temptation of Christ
1988as Jesus
Age: 32 Off Limits
1988as Buck McGriff
Age: 32 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
1987as Elephant Grass (voice)
Age: 31 Platoon
1986as Sergeant Elias Grodin
Age: 30 To Live and Die in L.A.
1985as Rick Masters
Age: 29 O Panama
1985
Age: 29 Roadhouse 66
1984as Johnny Harte
Age: 28 Streets of Fire
1984as Raven Shaddock
Age: 28 New York Nights
1984as Boyfriend
Age: 28 The Loveless
1984as Vance
Age: 28 Atalanta Strategy
1984as Immigration Staff
Age: 27 The Hunger
1983as 2nd Phone Booth Youth
Age: 25 Heaven's Gate
1980as Willy (uncredited)
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TV credits
Age: 60 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Zylander Quark
Age: 52 Wintergasten
2007
Age: 50 The Colbert Report
2005
Age: 42 The Wonderful World of Disney
1997
Age: 39 The Kingdom
1994as Grand Duc
Age: 34 The Simpsons
1989as The Commandant / Jack Lassen (voice)
Age: 34 The Simpsons
1989as Commandant (voice)
Age: 28 The Hitchhiker
1983as Jeffrey Hunt