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Willem Dafoe
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Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia:

A lean, sharp-featured actor with a seductive, serpentine smile, Dafoe finds himself in the unusual (but enviable) position of bouncing back and forth between leads and showy character parts-and he's equally effective in either. Following an inauspicious movie debut in Heaven's Gate (1980), the stage-seasoned Dafoe toiled in several minor films, usually as sadistic villains, before his turn in William Friedkin's To Live and Die in L.A (1985) set the mold for the postmodern heavy and, in so doing, elevated him to a higher rank of player. For 1986's Platoon director Oliver Stone cast him against type as a Christ-like soldier; in 1988 Martin Scorsese went all the way and made Dafoe the lead in The Last Temptation of Christ Platoon earned him an Oscar nomination.) Since then he's been playing mainly heroic roles-an FBI agent in Mississippi Burning (1988), a boxer imprisoned by Nazis in Triumph of the Spirit (1989), a daring pilot in Flight of the Intruder (1991), a small-town cop working undercover in White Sands (1992)- although he did revert to his initial type in John Waters' Cry-Baby (1990), with a cameo as a bullying reformatory guard, and in Wild at Heart (1990), playing a lascivious bandit in bad need of an orthodontist. He's also been in Light Sleeper (1992), Faraway, So Close! (1993), the notorious Body of Evidence (also 1993, as the lawyer led astray by kinky client Madonna), and Tom & Viv (1994, as T. S. Eliot).

Willem Dafoe stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Streets of Fire 1984 Don't know 0000-00-00 ***
Mississippi Burning 1988 With Jessica 0000-00-00 ***
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988 at home with house church 2000-06-12 *** 1/2
Clear and Present Danger 1994 Don't Remember 0000-00-00 ***
Spiderman 2002 at Branford Hoyts 2002-05-03 *** 1/2
Once Upon a Time in Mexico 2003 at Showcase North Haven 2003-09-12 ***
Finding Nemo 2003 at Showcase Orange 2003-08-04 *** 1/2
Spiderman 2 2004 in Tampa, FL 2004-10-04 ** 1/2
The Clearing 2004 w/ Suzy on DVD 2004-12-31 ***
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004 Suzy on DVD 2005-05-20 ** 1/2
The Aviator 2004 Family on DVD 2005-05-27 ***
Inside Man 2006 2006-09-03 *** 1/2
American Dreamz 2006 family on DVD 2007-01-26 ** 1/2
Mr. Bean's Holiday 2007 Suzy and Hanna 2013-03-09 **
Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 Hanna 2010-01-29 **
John Carter 2012 Hanna & Suzy 2012-06-02 * 1/2
The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 Suzy at Middletown 2014-05-24 *** 1/2
John Wick 2014 Suzy 2019-09-02 **
The Great Wall 2016 Hanna 2017-08-24 **
What Happened To Monday 2017 Suzy & Lichen 2023-06-23 ** 1/2
Murder on the Orient Express 2017 Suzy and Hanna 2018-02-16 **
At Eternity's Gate 2018 Suzy and Hanna 2019-02-08 **
Aquaman 2018 Suzy and Hanna 2019-03-09 *** 1/2
Motherless Brooklyn 2019 Suzy 2020-03-17 *** 1/2
Togo 2019 Suzy and Hanna 2020-05-16 *** 1/2
The French Dispatch 2021 Middletown with Suzy 2021-11-19 ***
Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021 Suzy and Hanna at Middletown 2022-01-01 ***
Nightmare Alley 2021 Suzy 2022-02-10 ***
Asteroid City 2023 Suzy and Lichen 2023-07-15 *** 1/2
Poor Things 2023 Suzy 2024-03-06 ** 1/2
The Boy and the Heron 2023 Suzy and Lichen 2024-06-28 * 1/2
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 Suzy 2024-10-11 **