Willem Dafoe
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. 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 cinema. In 1979, he was given a role in Michael's Cimino's Heaven's Gate, from which he was fired. 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. Among his other nominations and awards, he has received two Los Angeles Film Critics Awards, a New York Film Critics Circle Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Independent Spirit Awards, Venice Film Festival Volpi Cup, as well as a Berlinale Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement. Willem was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Muriel Isabel (Sprissler), a nurse, and William Alfred Dafoe, a surgeon. He is of mostly German, Irish, Scottish, and English descent. He and his wife, director Giada Colagrande, have made three films together: Padre, A Woman, and Before It Had A Name. His natural adventurousness is evident in roles as diverse as Marcus, the elite assassin who is mentor to Keanu Reeves in the neo-noir John Wick; in his voice work as Gil the Moorish Idol in Finding Nemo and Ryuk the Death God in Death Note; as Paul Smecker, the obsessed FBI agent in the cult classic The Boondock Saints; and as real life hero Leonhard Seppala, who led the 1925 Alaskan dog sled diphtheria serum run in Ericson Core's Togo. That adventurous spirit continues with upcoming films including Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Abel Ferrara's Siberia, and Paul Schrader's The Card Counter. Dafoe is one of the founding members of The Wooster Group, the New York based experimental theatre collective. He created and performed in all of the group's work from 1977 thru 2005, both in the U.S. and internationally. Since then, he worked with Richard Foreman in Idiot Savant at The Public Theatre (NYC), with Robert Wilson on two international productions: The Life & Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov and developed a new theatre piece, directed by Romeo Castellucci, based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil. He recently completed work on Marina Abramovic's opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas.
Willem Dalby
Willem Dalby is an actor, known for The Favourite (2018) and Shortflix (2018).
Willem De Schryver
Willem De Schryver is known for Déjà Vu (2021), Wtfock (2018) and Ondergronds (2023).
Willem Drees
Willem Drees was born on 5 July 1886 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was previously married to Catharina Hent. He died on 14 May 1988 in The Hague, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
Willem Halfyard
Willem Halfyard is known for Lifechanger (2018), Bloody Bits: Shorts Compilation Vol. 1 (2016) and ABCs of Death 2 (2014).
Willem Herbots
Willem Herbots was born on 25 October 1999. He is an actor, known for wtFOCK (2018), Ritueel (2022) and Het geheugenspel (2023).
Willem Jacobson
Willem Erik Jacobson was born on September 20th, 1995 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. An only child, Willem began his career as a child actor in 2004 after being considered for an acting role in a Los Angeles, California TV series with ABC. After meetings and a screen test with the Los Angeles staff at ABC, he returned to his hometown of Vancouver to appear on BC-filmed productions. After appearances on various commercials and short films, Willem was cast on the pilot episode of Criminal Minds: Extreme Aggressor (2005) as the episode's serial killer as a child. In 2007 Willem made his first appearance as a principal actor on the film Anna's Storm (2007), a film for television shot throughout British Columbia's lower mainland. In 2014, Willem appeared as the drone pilot in Seth Rogen's film, The Interview (2014). He has since begun to produce his own content, collaborating with filmmakers from Canada, Mexico and England. In 2019, Willem graduated Vancouver Film School's film production program, specializing in Producing and Cinematography where he created a 19-minute short film called Likeness (2020) with Mexican director Pablo Celaya Navarro, and another short film called Muscle Memory with Mexican director Inda Macías.
Willem Jacobus de Jongh
Willem Jacobus de Jongh is known for iNumber Number: Jozi Gold (2023).
Willem Miller
Willem Miller is an actor, known for Band of Robbers (2015), Stitchers (2015) and Grandma (2015).
Willem Möller
Willem Möller is a composer, known for Skeem (2011) and Searching for Sugar Man (2012).