Embeth Davidtz

ActorDirectorProducerWriterCrew Aug 11 (age 60) Lafayette, Indiana, USA 1989–2025 (36 year career)

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Biography

Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men. In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe…

Known For

Film

Schindler's List

Helen Hirsch

Film

The Amazing Spider-Man

Mary Parker

Film

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Annika Blomkvist Giannini

Film

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Mary Parker

Film

Matilda

Miss Honey

Film

Fracture

Jennifer Crawford

Film

Bicentennial Man

Little Miss / Portia

Film

Army of Darkness

Sheila

Filmography

Acting (54)

Movies (41)

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

as Nicola Fuller

Retribution

as Heather Turner

Not Okay

as Judith

Old

as Adult Maddox

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

2018

as Self

An Oral History of: Schindler's List

2018

as Self (archive footage)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

2014

as Mary Parker

6.5

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

2014

as Self

Europa Report

2013

as Dr. Samantha Unger

6.3

Miracle Rising: South Africa

as Self

Paranoia

as Judith Bolton

The Amazing Spider-Man

2012

as Mary Parker

6.7

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2011

as Annika Blomkvist Giannini

3 Backyards

as The Actress

Winged Creatures

as Lydia Jaspersen

Fracture

as Jennifer Crawford

Junebug

as Madeleine

Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'

2005

as Herself

4.5

My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson

as Self

The Emperor's Club

as Elizabeth

Thir13en Ghosts

as Kalina

Bridget Jones's Diary

2001

as Natasha

6.7

The Hole

2001

as Dr. Philippa Horwood

6.2

Bicentennial Man

1999

as Little Miss / Portia

Mansfield Park

as Mary Crawford

Last Rites

as Dr. Lauren Riggs

Simon Magus

as Leah

Fallen

as Gretta Milano

The Gingerbread Man

as Mallory Doss

The Garden of Redemption

1997

as Adriana

Matilda

as Miss Honey

Murder in the First

as Mary McCasslin

Feast of July

as Bella Ford

Schindler's List

as Helen Hirsch

Army of Darkness

as Sheila

Deadly Matrimony

as Dianne Masters

Till Death Us Do Part

1992

as Katherine Palliko

6.7

The Night of the 19th

1991

as Tessa van Dyk

Sweet Murder

Mutator

as Jennifer

A Private Life

as Older Karen

Television (13)

Tales of the Walking Dead

as Amanda

Love, Victor

as Mrs. Campbell

The Morning Show

as Paige Jacobs

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

as Natasha Lytess

Ray Donovan

as Sonia Kovitzky

In Treatment

as Amy

Mad Men

as Rebecca Pryce

Californication

as Felicia Koons

Grey's Anatomy

as Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)

Shackleton

as Rosalind Chetwynd

Scrubs

as Maddie

Citizen Baines

as Ellen Baines Croland

The Venery of Samantha Bird

as Carol Minot

Crew (4)

Movies (4)

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

2025

Director

7.0

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

2025

Producer

7.0

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

2025

Screenplay

7.0

Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'

2005

Thanks

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