William James Willem Dafoe born July 22 1955 is an American actor He is the recipient of various accolades including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards four Screen Actors Guild Awards three Golden Globe Awards and a British Academy Film Award He frequently collaborates with filmmakers Paul Schrader Abel Ferrara Lars von Trier Julian Schnabel Wes Anderson and Robert Eggers Dafoe was an early member of experimental theater company The Wooster Group He made his film debut in Heavens Gate 1980 but was fired during production He had his first leading role in the outlaw biker film The Loveless 1982 and then played the main antagonist in Streets of Fire 1984 and To Live and Die in LA 1985 He received his first Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Sergeant Elias Grodin in Oliver Stones war film Platoon 1986 In 1988 Dafoe played Jesus in Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ and costarred in Mississippi Burning both of which were controversial After receiving his second Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for portraying Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire 2000 Dafoe portrayed the supervillain Norman Osborn Green Goblin in the superhero film SpiderMan 2002 a role he reprised in its sequels SpiderMan 2 2004 and SpiderMan 3 2007 and the Marvel Cinematic Universe film SpiderMan No Way Home 2021 earning him the Guinness World Record for the longest career as a liveaction Marvel character He also portrayed the villains in Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003 and XXX State of the Union 2005 as well as Carson Clay in the film Mr Beans Holiday 2007 In 2009 he starred in the experimental film Antichrist one of his three films with Lars von Trier Dafoe then appeared in The Fault in Our Stars John Wick The Grand Budapest Hotel all 2014 The Great Wall 2016 Murder on the Orient Express 2017 The Florida Project 2017 for which he received his third Academy Award nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category The Lighthouse 2019 The French Dispatch and Nightmare Alley both 2021 He portrayed Nuidis Vulko in the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman 2018 Zack Snyders Justice League 2021 and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 2022 Dafoe has portrayed several reallife figures including T S Eliot in Tom Viv 1994 Pier Paolo Pasolini in Pasolini 2014 Vincent van Gogh in At Eternitys Gate 2018 for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor nomination his first in that category and Leonhard Seppala in Togo 2019
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