[24], Dafoe's sole film release of 1986 was Oliver Stone's Vietnam War film Platoon, gaining him his widest exposure up to that point for playing the compassionate Sergeant Elias Grodin. In the drama Pavilion of Women, he played an American priest living in China who falls in love with a local married woman (played by the film's screenwriter Luo Yan) while giving her son a Western education. When you look back at your experiences, it's true that sometimes the most horrendous experiences can translate into being your best work. : : Steve Zissou : No, we're out of dynamite anyway. Brother, Donald Dafoe, is an accomplished transplant surgeon. 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Since then, he has collaborated with directors who represent a virtual encyclopedia of modern cinema: James Wan, Robert Eggers, Sean Baker, Kenneth Branagh, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Raimi, Alan Parker, Walter Hill, Mary Harron, Wim Wenders, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Yimou, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, William Friedkin, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, David Cronenberg, Paul Schrader, Anthony Minghella, Theo Angelopoulos, Robert Rodriguez, Phillip Noyce, Hector Babenco, John Milius, Paul Weitz, The Spierig Brothers, Andrew Stanton, Josh Boone, Dee Rees and Julian Schnabel.Dafoe has been recognized with four Academy Award nominations: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Platoon, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Shadow Of The Vampire, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Florida Project, for which he also received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations, and most recently, Best Leading Actor for At Eternity's Gate, for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination. [37] While the film was negatively received, Dafoe's performance was lauded by some critics; Peter Travers of Rolling Stone felt he gave a "disciplined performance" and Janet Maslin thought he was "harrowingly good". [80] Steven Scaife at Vice wrote that Dafoe's Goblin "represents everything thats fun about superhero villains, as well as everything thats great about Raimi's campy films", also commending Dafoe's voice and body language, which helped overcome the bulky Green Goblin costume that he compared to that of a Power Rangers villain. And that doesn't mean I'm not analytical or that I'm anti-intellectual. Steve Zissou [109] Roger Ebert thought that Dafoe was "fearsome" in the role,[110] while Manohla Dargis felt he and Roberts were "awkwardly matched" as a married couple. [98] Dafoe had a supporting role in Spike Lee's 2006 crime thriller Inside Man, playing a veteran captain of the NYPD Emergency Services Unit helping with a hostage negotiation during a bank heist on Wall Street. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Dafoe also had to wear a prosthetic teeth for his part as Norman whereas the hallucinations of the character had Dafoe in his natural teeth. Klaus Daimler [30][31] His second release of 1988 was Martin Scorsese's epic drama The Last Temptation of Christ, in which Dafoe portrayed Jesus. What's the deal? Wait a second. You're down with them. [2004, on selection parts] I'm always looking for an adventure-I try not to work just to work. [81], Later in 2002, Dafoe starred with Greg Kinnear in Paul Schrader's biographical film Auto Focus, Dafoe's third collaboration with Schrader. He did most of his own stunts on the glider in, He was delirious for 24 hours after coming down with yellow fever on the set of. And then, as I get older, it transforms into something else.". [168] Also that year, he co-starred as Gerhard Hardman in a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's detective novel Murder on the Orient Express, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh;[169] and played Atlantean scientist Nuidis Vulko in a deleted role in Zack Snyder's Justice League. If you're eating pasta for a week, eventually, you crave something else. : You can make a persona, corner a market, and make yourself almost a thing. Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' "[45][46], Dafoe next starred in the erotic thriller Body of Evidence (1993) with Madonna. To avoid having his role in the film prematurely revealed, Dafoe wore a cloak on-set to conceal his appearance from being outed publicly. He studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin but left school to join Theater X, an experimental Wisconsin-based theatre troupe with which Dafoe toured for four years. : He's right-hand man to Bill. No! | [16] On May 22, 2022, Dafoe was invited back to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee by Chancellor Mark Mone to serve as the keynote speaker for the University's commencement ceremony and to receive an honorary Doctor of Arts degree. [154] Dafoe stated he found the use of gun fu combat created an interesting mix of action, stating "you have the grace of martial arts, but then the bang of the gun". [186][187] Amelia Emberwing of IGN praised the performances of Dafoe, Molina, and Foxx in No Way Home,[188] while Vulture's Bilge Ebiri said Dafoe "once again gets to have some modest fun with his character's divided self". Steve! You can use that and that can be interesting iconographical but I still am that actor who likes to bend myself to the material rather than find material to support some idea of who I am or some persona that I've made, or some mask that I've made. He is the recipient of various accolades, including the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, in addition to receiving nominations for four Academy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA. [2007]. Speed 2 was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics,[58] with Dafoe himself receiving a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Supporting Actor. It's one of those invented things. Klaus Daimler If you ever touch me again, I will kick your goddamn teeth out. [173] In the same year, he played a lighthouse keeper on a storm-swept island in Robert Eggers' psychological horror The Lighthouse opposite Robert Pattinson. We'll split into two groups. [130], Dafoe's first of two leading roles in 2011 was in Abel Ferrara's apocalyptic drama 4:44 Last Day on Earth, his third film with Ferrara. The film was excoriated by a Variety reviewer as a "wannabe haunted house tale laced with silly sex scenes" and an "embarrassment". Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. Dafoe, the son of a surgeon and a nurse, was one of seven children. Marc Maron "It keeps you honest. : [pouting] I'm gonna fight you, Steve. [151] He was next featured in a supporting role as a mean-spirited, alcoholic author who is visited by a pair of cancer patients, who are played by Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort, in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars. I like being the thing itself. I never act. While we have a very strong popular culture, the roots of our culture are very shallow, and we put emphasis on how a movie does as far as the box office goes. He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. [36] Dafoe starred in the drama Triumph of the Spirit in 1989 as Jewish Greek boxer Salamo Arouch, an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate who was forced to fight other internees to death for the Nazi officers' entertainment. [on being a veteran on a set with mostly newcomers in, "How did it affect your performance being in the presence of real destitution and real desperation?" [47] In his review of the film, Vincent Canby felt that Dafoe lacked sensuality in the role. Notable roles include in The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Antichrist (2009), John Wick (2014), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Murder on the Orient Express (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The French Dispatch (2021), Nightmare Alley (2021), and The Northman (2022). In 2009 Dafoe starred in von Triers controversial Antichrist, which centres on a couple who struggle to cope with the death of a child. Steve Zissou Dafoe played a cold, domineering English professor who has a strained relationship with his family. Sticker types may be printed and shipped from different locations. Cross the line if you're going to quit. : If you're not asking those questions you're not growing. You honor those people, and they stop being 'those people' and they become *your* people. A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. I don't know. Today the actor is 66 years old. Are we - are we safe in here? Dafoe played the Norman Osborn incarnation of the Green Goblin, the billionaire founder and owner of the corporation Oscorp, becoming the Green Goblin after testing an unstable strength enhancer on himself, turning him insane and making him extremely powerful. He was also nominated for his portrayal of the 19th-century painter Vincent van Gogh during his last years in At Eternitys Gate (2018). 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