Willem Dafoe & his dubbing voice Reiner Schöne

Since 2005, William J. Dafoe has been married to the Italian film director Giada Colagrande, who is twenty years younger than him and with whom he lives alternately in New York, Los Angeles and Rome. 

 

Dafoe's first success came in 1986 with the role of Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama "Platoon", for which he was rewarded with an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

 

His roles are multi-layered, making it difficult to categorize his acting spectrum into one genre. He shines as a villain (e.g. in "Speed 2" or "Spider-Man") as well as a hero (e.g. in "Platoon" or "Mississippi Burning") and alternates between arthouse and blockbusters.

 

His omnipresence on the big screen over the past forty years is sensational.

 

84 awards & 123 nominations

 

Willem Dafoe has been nominated for an Oscar four times (1987, 2001, 2018 and 2019). In 2018, he was awarded the Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement at the Berlinale.

We have listed some of his best and most famous films here:

 

2023: Inside

2021: Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021: The French Dispatch

2019: The Lighthouse

2018: At Eternity's Gate

2017: The Florida Project

2014: A Most Wanted Man

2014: The Grand Budapest Hotel

2009: Antichrist

2007: Spider-Man 3

2006: Inside Man

2004: Spider-Man 2

2002: Spider-Man

2000: American Psycho

2000: Shadow of the Vampire

1996: The English Patient 

1988: The Last Temptation of Christ

1980: Heaven’s Gate