Willem Dafoe movies

(born July 22, 1955) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor and a founding member of the experimental theatre company The Wooster Group. He is best known for his roles in the Hollywood films The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Platoon (1986) and the Spider-Man series.BiographyEarly lifeDafoe, the seventh of eight children, was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Muriel Isabel Sprissler, a nurse and Boston native, and Dr.

His birth name is William Dafoe; he changed it to "Willem" (Dutch for "William") so people wouldnt call him "Billy". After graduating from Appleton East High School, he studied drama at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, but left before graduation in order to join the newly formed avant-garde group Theatre X.
After touring with Theatre X for four years in the United States and Europe, he moved to New York City and joined the Performance Group. Dafoes film career began in 1981, when he was cast in Heavens Gate, but his role was removed from the film during editing. A year later he starred as the leader of a motorcycle gang in The Loveless (and later played a similar role in Streets of Fire), but his first breakthrough film role was as the compassionate Sergeant Elias in Platoon (1986). He has since become a popular character actor; due to his harsh facial features, he is often typecast as unstable or villainous characters, such as the psychotic Green Goblin in the Spider-Man movies and Barillo in Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Willem Dafoe Movies

All movies starring Willem Dafoe.

• American Dreamz
• American Psycho
• Clear and Present Danger
• Wild at Heart
• eXistenZ
• Finding Nemo
• Fireflies in the Garden
• Inside Man
• Manderlay
• Mississippi Burning
• Mr. Bean's Holiday
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico
• Platoon
• Shadow of the Vampire
• Adam Resurrected
• Spider-Man