Willem Dafoe

ActorProducerProductionCrewWriter Jul 22 (age 70) Appleton, Wisconsin, USA 1962–2026 (64 year career)

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Biography

William James "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor as well as nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, four Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has frequently collaborated with filmmakers Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, …

Known For

Film

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

Film

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jopling

Film

Finding Nemo

Gill (voice)

Film

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Vulko

Film

John Wick

Marcus

Film

Spider-Man

Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

Film

The Fault in Our Stars

Peter van Houten

Film

Spider-Man 2

Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

Filmography

Acting (245)

Movies (220)

Werwulf

2026 Upcoming

Dec 25

The Birthday Party

2026 Upcoming

as Marcos Timoleon

Jul 10

Late Fame

2026

as Ed Saxberger

The Souffleur

2026

as Lucius

The Phoenician Scheme

as Knave

The Legend of Ochi

as Maxim

Zero

as (voice)

The Man in My Basement

as Anniston Bennett

Pet Shop Days

as Francis

Avrio Vrady

as Dancing man

Grande Envie

2025

as Count

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

2024

as Jackson

6.9

Nosferatu

2024

as Prof. Albin Eberhart von Franz

6.7

Kinds of Kindness

2024

as Raymond / George / Omi

Saturday Night

as David Tebet

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Finally Dawn

as Rufo Priori

Can Creativity Save the World?

2024

as Self

Nosferatu: An Inside Look

2024

as Self

5.5

Jesus Goes to Hollywood

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Poor Things

as Godwin Baxter

Asteroid City

as Saltzburg Keitel

Inside

as Nemo

Gonzo Girl

as Walker Reade

The Wild One

as Narrator (voice)

Interior (The Spectator)

2023

as Narrator

Willem Dafoe

The Northman

as Heimir the Fool

Dead for a Dollar

as Joe Cribbens

Finding Satoshi

as Narrator

7 Deaths of Maria Callas

2022

as Film Actor

3.0

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

2022

as Self

6.8

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

2022

as Self / Grand Duc

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone

2022

7.0

Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

2022

as Self

Il coraggio di essere Franco

2022

as Sé stesso

5.6

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

as Norman Osborn / Green Goblin

7.9

Zack Snyder's Justice League

as Vulko

Nightmare Alley

as Clem Hoatley

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

2021

as Albert 'the Abacus'

The Card Counter

as Gordo

Maresco / Pasolini

as Self

River

2021

as Narrator

6.0

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

2021

as Self

6.0

The Last Thing He Wanted

as Richard McMahon

Siberia

as Clint

Tommaso

as Tommaso

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020

as Self

7.1

Wim Wenders, Desperado

as Self

Sportin' Life

as Self

The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy Tale

2020

as Self

6.9

Roy's World: Barry Gifford's Chicago

The Lighthouse

as Thomas Wake

Vincent van Gogh Superstar

2019

as Vincent van Gogh (archive footage)

Motherless Brooklyn

as Paul Randolph

Love, Antosha

as Self

Togo

as Leonhard Seppala

Manou the Swift

as Manou's Father (voice)

Aquaman

as Nuidis Vulko

Vox Lux

as Narrator (voice)

At Eternity's Gate

as Vincent van Gogh

Brothers in Arms

as Self

Opus Zero

as Paul

Friedkin Uncut

as Self

Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida Project

2018

as Self

8.3

Theatron. Romeo Castellucci

2018

Murder on the Orient Express

2017

as Gerhard Hardman

6.7

What Happened to Monday

2017

as Terrence Settman

7.1

Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

as Self

Death Note

as Ryuk (voice)

The Florida Project

as Bobby

Ballad of a Righteous Merchant

as Self

Mountain

as Narrator (voice)

Sanctuary

as Narrator

Piazza Vittorio

as Himself

The Great Wall

as Ballard

Finding Dory

as Gill (voice)

Mind the Gap

as Self

A Family Man

as Ed Blackridge

Father

as James Verdun

Dog Eat Dog

as Mad Dog

Sculpt

My Hindu Friend

as Diego Fairman

Nelson Algren Live

as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh

Fukushima: A Nuclear Story

2015

as Narrator

7.4

Don't F*#% With John Wick

2015

as Self

7.7

John Wick: Calling in the Cavalry

2015

as Self

7.2

The Making of A Most Wanted Man

2015

as Self

The Grand Budapest Hotel

as Jopling

John Wick

as Marcus

A Most Wanted Man

as Tommy Brue

The Fault in Our Stars

2014

as Peter van Houten

7.6

SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg

as (archive footage)

Bad Country

as Bud Carter

Pasolini

as Pier Paolo Pasolini

5.7

Nymphomaniac: Vol. II

as L

Odd Thomas

as Wyatt Porter

The Benaki Museum

as Narrator (voice)

Out of the Furnace

as John Petty

Saving Norman

as Lionel Pembrooke

The Smile Man

as Willem

Love's Routine

as Barry

John Carter

as Tars Tarkas

4:44 Last Day on Earth

as Cisco

Tomorrow You're Gone

as The Buddha

Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina Abramovic

as Self

The Hunter

as Martin David

Daybreakers

as Lionel 'Elvis' Cormac

6.3

Miral

2010

as Eddie

5.7

The Making of Daybreakers

2010

as Self

7.0

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

as Detective Hank Havenhurst

6.1

A Woman

2010

as Max Oliver

4.3

Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World

2010

as Narrator

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Rat (voice)

Antichrist

as He

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

2009

as Gavner Purl

5.8

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

2009

as Paul Smecker (uncredited)

Farewell

as Feeney

Go Go Tales

as Ray Ruby

The Dust of Time

as A

Fireflies in the Garden

as Charles Waechter

Adam Resurrected

as Commandat Klein

Spider-Man 3

as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

6.5

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as (segment "Occupations") (archive footage)

Mr. Bean's Holiday

as Carson Clay

Anamorph

as Stan Aubray

Cannes: All Access

as Self

The Walker

as Larry Lockner

Voom Portraits

as Self

The Procedure

as Christopher

Inside Man

as John Darius

Paris Je T'aime

as Le cow-boy (Place des Victoires)

6.8

American Dreamz

2006

as Chief of Staff

5.0

xXx: State of the Union

2005

as Gen. George Octavius Deckert

5.1

Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern Journal

2005

as Self

6.3

On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'

as Self / Klaus D.

Before It Had a Name

as Leslie

Manderlay

as Grace's Father

Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

2005

as Willem Dafoe (uncredited)

Ripley Under Ground

as Neil Murchison

This Is an Adventure

as Self

Spider-Man 2

as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

The Aviator

as Roland Sweet

The Reckoning

as Martin

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

as Klaus Daimler

The Clearing

as Arnold Mack

Control

as Dr. Michael Copeland

6.1

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate

2004

as Narrator (voice)

7.2

The Misbehavers

2004

as Self

Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart

2004

Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'

2004

as Self

Finding Nemo

2003

as Gill (voice)

7.8

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

as Armando Barillo

Rockets Redglare!

as Self

Overnight

as Self

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

2003

8.0

Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'

2003

as Self

8.0

Spider-Man

2002

as Green Goblin / Norman Osborn

Auto Focus

as John Carpenter

Spider-Mania

as Self

The Spider-Man Story

as Self

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

2002

as Self

5.6

Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days Adventure

as Hunter (voice)

Pavilion of Women

as Father Andre

Edges of the Lord

as Priest

A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'

as Self

American Psycho

as Donald Kimball

Animal Factory

as Earl Copen

Bullfighter

as Father Ramirez

Shadow of the Vampire

as Max Schreck

eXistenZ

as Gas

The Boondock Saints

as Paul Smecker

New Rose Hotel

as X

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle

1999

as Narrator

Lulu on the Bridge

as Dr. Van Horn

Affliction

as Rolfe Whitehouse

Speed 2: Cruise Control

1997

as Geiger

4.6

Wrong Guys

1997

as Jack Straw

The English Patient

as David Caravaggio

Basquiat

as The Electrician

Victory

as Axel Heyst

The Night and the Moment

1995

as Lo scrittore

4.3

Clear and Present Danger

as John Clark

Tom & Viv

as Tom Eliot

Faraway, So Close!

as Emit Flesti

Body of Evidence

as Frank Dulaney

Brace Up!

as Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin

10.0

Rhyme 'Em to Death

1993

White Homeland Commando

1993

as Karl

10.0

White Sands

1992

as Deputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal

North on Evers

Light Sleeper

as John LeTour

Flight of the Intruder

1991

as Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole

Wild at Heart

as Bobby Peru

Cry-Baby

as Hateful Guard

Born on the Fourth of July

1989

as Charlie

7.0

Triumph of the Spirit

as Salamo Arouch

Mississippi Burning

as Agent Alan Ward

The Last Temptation of Christ

as Jesus

Off Limits

as Buck McGriff

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ

1988

as Self

4.0

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

1987

as Elephant Grass (voice)

7.1

Platoon

1986

as Sergeant Elias Grodin

7.7

To Live and Die in L.A.

as Rick Masters

O Panama

The Loveless

as Vance

Streets of Fire

as Raven Shaddock

Roadhouse 66

as Johnny Harte

Atalanta Strategy

as Immigration Staff

New York Nights

1984

as Boyfriend

2.4

The Hunger

1983

as 2nd Phone Booth Youth

6.7

Heaven's Gate

1980

as Willy (uncredited)

6.7

Tropico

as Raymond

Tenzing

as Colonel John Hunt

American Nails

The Sleeping Shepherd

Time Out

Cuddle

as Dante

Odesseus

A Christmas Carol

as Ebenezer Scrooge

Television (25)

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue

2022

as Self

8.2

Mostra, Venise

2022

as Self

Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen

2020

as Self

10.0

NHK WORLD PRIME

2017

as Self - Narrator (voice)

9.0

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015

as Self

6.2

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self - Guest

5.2

Off Camera with Sam Jones

2014

as Self

4.0

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Conan

as Self

The Graham Norton Show

as Self

Wintergasten

The Colbert Report

Kulturplatz

as Self

The Directors

as Self

The Wonderful World of Disney

The Daily Show

as Self

The Kingdom

as Grand Duc

Inside the Actors Studio

as Self

Fishing with John

as Self

The Simpsons

as Commandant (voice)

The Hitchhiker

as Jeffrey Hunt

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

7.0

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

The Oscars

as Self

Crew (6)

Movies (6)

The Man in My Basement

2025

Executive Producer

5.5

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

2020

Associate Producer

7.1

The House That Jack Built

Thanks

Before It Had a Name

Screenplay

New Rose Hotel

Co-Producer

Tropico

Producer