Willem Dafoe is an American actor who was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. He has won several honors, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. He has been nominated for three Golden Globes, four Screen Actors Guild honors, four Academy Awards, and a British Academy Film Award.
On July 22, 1955, in Appleton, Wisconsin, the United States, Willem Dafoe was born. His age is 68 years.
Dafoe stands at a stature of 5 feet 9 inches/1.75 m tall.
Dafoe graduated from Appleton East High School before enrolling in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he studied acting for a year and a half before leaving to join the experimental theater company Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to New York City in 1976.
Dafoe was born and nurtured by his loving parents in Appleton, Wisconsin. Muriel Isabel (née Sprissler) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe had eight siblings. Donald Dafoe, his brother, is a transplant surgeon and researcher. He is descended from Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish ancestors. The surname Dafoe is an Anglicized version of the Swiss surname Thévou.
Dafoe began a relationship with director Elizabeth LeCompte in 1977. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982, and they divorced in 2004. They never married because “marriage represented ownership to her.”
On March 25, 2005, he married Italian screenwriter, actor, and director Giada Colagrande, a year after they met at the premiere of one of her films in Rome. “We were having lunch, and I said: ‘Do you want to get married tomorrow?'” Dafoe remarked in 2010. They did so the next afternoon in a short ceremony attended by two friends. They collaborated on her films Before It Had a Name and A Woman. They spend time in Rome, New York City, and Los Angeles. He is currently a dual citizen of the United States and Italy.
Dafoe has an approximate net worth of $40 million.
William James “Willem” Dafoe is an actor from the United States. He has won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and two Independent Spirit Awards, as well as being nominated for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. He has worked numerous times with filmmakers such as Paul Schrader, Abel Ferrara, Lars von Trier, Julian Schnabel, Wes Anderson, and Robert Eggers.
Dafoe was a founder of The Wooster Group, an experimental theater company. He made his film debut in Heaven’s Gate (1980), but was sacked during production and went uncredited even though one of his scenes was used in the final cut of the picture. His first leading role was in the outlaw biker film The Loveless (1982), and he then played supporting roles in Streets of Fire (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), before making his breakthrough as Sgt. Elias in Oliver Stone’s war film Platoon (1986), went on to play Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and FBI agent Alan Ward in Mississippi Burning (1988).
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