Willem Dafoe
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"William J. "Willem" Dafoe" is an American actor.

Dafoe is a member of the experimental theatre/experimental theater company The Wooster Group. He has appeared in films such as Platoon (film)/Platoon, Affliction (film)/Affliction, Off Limits (1988 film)/Off Limits, Streets of Fire, To Live and Die in L.A. (film)/To Live and Die in L.A., Born on the Fourth of July (film)/Born on the Fourth of July, The English Patient (film)/The English Patient, The Last Temptation of Christ (film)/The Last Temptation of Christ, Mississippi Burning, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Boondock Saints, Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man (2002 film)/Spider-Man, The Aviator (2004 film)/The Aviator, John Wick (film)/John Wick, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Dafoe has had voice roles in Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)/Fantastic Mr. Fox and Finding Nemo, as well as two episodes of The Simpsons. He also provided the voice and motion capture for Nathan Dawkins in the 2013 video game Beyond: Two Souls. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for Platoon in 1986 and Shadow of the Vampire in 2000.

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I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.

[I] lie like the truth.

Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it rooted and having the people not fall out of it.

The aesthetic is not that we're taking a hand-held camera and we're just letting it roll and doing our thing, ... Before It Had a Name.

It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics.

His approach to filmmakers and serving his stories.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

One of the pleasures of going to the movies for me is quite simply to see new ways, to think about broader ways or to challenge something as a given. It's usually people from outside, from the margins, that have the voice that inspires me.