Willem Dafoe

William J. "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22, 1955) is an American actor. A member of the experimental theatre company the Wooster Group, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles as Elias in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) and Max Schreck in the comedy-horror film Shadow of the Vampire (2000). His other film appearances include The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Mississippi Burning (1988),The English Patient (1996), American Psycho (2000), the Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007) and Justice League (2017). He has also had voice roles in Finding Nemo (2003) and its sequel Finding Dory (2016), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and the forthcoming adaptation of Death Note (2017). 2Early life Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. One of seven children of Muriel Isabel (née Sprissler) and Dr. William Alfred Dafoe, he recalled in 2009: "My five sisters raised me because my father was a surgeon, my mother was a nurse and they worked together, so I didn't see either of them much." In high school, he acquired the nickname Willem. His father's ancestry is French-Canadian, Swiss and English, and his mother's ancestry is German, Irish and Scottish. He was once expelled from high school for shooting a pornographic fil