Willem Dafoe — Photos Of The Actor

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January 29, 2022 12:25AM EST

Click through the gallery to see photos of the popular character actor Willem Dafoe.

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Willem Dafoe At The 2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards

Willem Dafoe At The 2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards — Willem Dafoe (born William J. “Willem” Dafoe in Appleton, Wisconsin on July 22, 1955) is an American actor. He is a member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Platoon (1986) and Shadow of the Vampire (2000). Willem has also appeared in films such as: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), The English Patient (1996), and the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–07). He has had voice-roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), as well as two episodes of The Simpsons.

As for his personal life, Willem and director Elizabeth LeCompte have a son together named Jack, who was born in 1982. The couple began seeing each other in 1977 and split in 2004.

In 2005 William married an Italian actress, director, and screenwriter named Giada Colagrande after meeting in Rome during a premiere of one of Giada’s films. They got married the next day and have divided their time between Rome, New York City, and Los Angeles. Willem now holds both Italian and American citizenship.

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Willem Dafoe In ‘White Sands’

Willem Dafoe In ‘White Sands’ — Willem Dafoe in the 1992 movie White Sands.

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Willem Dafoe In 1988

Willem Dafoe In 1988 — Willem Dafoe at a photoshoot in Beverly Hills, 1988.

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Willem Dafoe In ‘The Loveless’

Willem Dafoe In ‘The Loveless’ — Willem Dafoe looks James Dean-level cool in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1981 flick The Loveless.

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Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, And Willem Dafoe At The Spider-Man Press Conference

Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, And Willem Dafoe At The Spider-Man Press Conference — Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Willem Dafoe attend a press conference announcing the beginning of the production of Spider-Man. The movie, which was released in 2002 and was directed by Sam Raimi. Willem was memorable as the supervillain the Green Goblin in the action-adventure flick.

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