His other Oscar nominations have been for his supporting role in 2017’s The Florida Project, and his leading role as Vincent Van Gogh in At Eternity’s Gate (2018). infantryman in Vietnam to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's The Green. Stone wrote the story based upon his experiences as a U.S. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films by Stone. (1985), Body of Evidence (1993, with Madonna), The Boondock Saints (1999), The Clearing (2004, with Robert Redford), and, playing the Green Goblin, the Spider-Man movies directed by Sam Raimi (2002-07). Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and stars Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. His films include To Live and Die in L.A. Elias, he was an inspiration to his men only because he’d been through hell and back. He was Mephistopheles on a motorcycle in Streets of Fire.In To Live and Die in L.A., he was an arty androgyne with a heart of darkness.As Platoon’s beatific Sgt. Instead of going the leading man route, Dafoe showed tremendous range in a variety of roles: he played Jesus in Martin Scorsese‘s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), a very gnarly bad guy in David Lynch‘s Wild at Heart (1990, starring Nicolas Cage) and a troubled son and brother in Affliction (1998, with Nick Nolte).ĭafoe won a second Oscar nomination for his role as a creepy, bloodsucking actor in Shadow of the Vampire (2000).Ī versatile and hard-working actor, he’s a familiar face at the box office. WILLEM DAFOE Willem Dafoe’s looks could kill lips born to sneer, the eyes of a cobra with cheekbones. (Click on image below to browse.Willem Dafoe played mostly bad guys and weirdos until an Oscar-nominated role in Oliver Stone‘s Platoon (1986) made him a star.Ĭompelling and intense, Dafoe started in the movies in the 1980s after extensive work in experimental theater. He had sisters who went to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and he told Colbert they "came back transformed."įor more information on Willem Dafoe, visit Wikipedia.īuy Willem Dafoe posters, t-shirts and videos at Amazon. As of 2017, he has received 2 Oscar nominations Best Actor for Platoon and Best Supporting actor for Shadow of the Vampire, winning neither. He participated in all of the group’s artistic work as a creator and performer from 1977 through 2005. In the January, 2018 The Late Show with Steven Colbert interview, Dafoe mentions the impact Madison had on him as a teenager. Willem is a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large and small, Hollywood films as well as Independent. To join the experimental theater company Theatre X in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to New York in 1976. Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time.
Obviously Platoon, but its a little bit too obvious. Probably the first one, The Loveless, or maybe To Live and Die in L.A.
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Defoe dropped out of UWM after a year and a half Dafoe, which movie changed your life the most Thats hard to say. He then went on to attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) where he took drama classes. In a story published in Appleton's local newspaper, The Post-Crescent, in 1987, Dafoe said he completed graduation requirements by taking a class at Lawrence University. So, when Defoe returned from lunch he was told to go to the principal's office where his parents (who were already there) exclaimed, "Oh, Willy, you're making pornography!" Teacher found the footage while he was at lunch and reported DeFoe to the principal. Defoe claims that he was going to cut the crazy stuff out but his
The footage included segments about a satanist with a pornography collection, a guy that was interested in legalizing pot and a nudist. they kicked me out!"Īccording to an interview on The Late Show with Steven Colbert in 2018, Defoe explained that when he went out for lunch he left the footage he was shooting on the editing bed. Defoe attended Appleton East High School but was expelled because of a video editing project in his communications class. Willem Dafoe - Actor born William James Dafoe on Jin Appleton, Wisconsin.Īppearing in over 100 movies, Defoe is probably best known for his roles as Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's war film Platoon (1986), Jesus of Nazareth in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin in Spiderman (2002), and Bobby Hicks in The Florida Project (2017) to name a few.ĭefoe, grew up in a large house near Lawrence University in Appleton and was the seventh of eight children.
Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported: Siebbi. Above: Actor Willem Dafoe at the opening of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival at the Berlinale Palast.
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