Profile
Famous as :
ActorBirth Name :
William J. DafoeBirth Date :
July 22, 1955Birth Place :
Appleton, Wisconsin, USASpouse :
Giada Colagrande (actress, director, since 25-Mar-05)Claim to fame :
As Sgt. Elias Grodin in "Platoon" (1986)
Willem Dafoe Besieged by the "Daybreakers"
June 28, 2007 11:06:48
Spilling the beans about his next project "Daybreakers", Ethan Hawke revealed to Star Pulse News that two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe has joined him and Sam Neill in the cast of the futuristic vampire flick.
"Willem Dafoe and I are duelling vampires," so Hawk informed. "It's really dark and weird and everybody's sucking each other's blood."
Two Collect "Dust of Time"
June 22, 2007 10:06:09
Both successfully establishing solid reputation in Hollywood, Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel have been brought together to star in "The Dust of Time", an English-language debut from Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos.
Project was unveiled by Angelopoulos on Monday, June 18 in Cologne, Germany where he spoke at a panel at Filmstiftung North Rhine-Westphalia's annual International Film Congress. Plot details still remain a mystery, but it is revealed that filming will begin this October in Russia for a 2008 release with Bruno Ganz and Valeria Golino also starring.
Five Spotting "Fireflies in the Garden"
March 30, 2007 10:03:57
Enhancing the high-profile status of the picture, Willem Dafoe, Hayden Panettiere, Shannon Lucio, Ioan Gruffudd, and George Newbern have all come onboard to take part in drama flick "Fireflies in the Garden", The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
Marking the feature directorial debut of Dennis Lee, who also wrote the screenplay, the project is loosely based on his life as it explores the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced with an unexpected tragedy.
Four Stack Things into "The Hurt Locker"
March 15, 2007 09:03:14
Probably this could be the dream team moviegoers often imagine of. Production Weekly has learned that Charlize Theron, Colin Farrell, Ralph Fiennes, and Willem Dafoe are joining forces to highlight an Iraq-set action drama entitled "The Hurt Locker."
Set to enter production later this spring, the project centers on an elite Army bomb disposal unit who get forced to play a risky game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war and have to come together in a city where every person is a potential enemy.
Willem Dafoe Puts Great Concern on "Adam"
December 18, 2006 03:12:25
Opts to take a contrasting acting stint as his next big screen performance after that in Abel Ferrara's comedy "Go Go Tales", Willem Dafoe has signed on to join Jeff Goldblum in Holocaust drama "Adam Resurrected."
A Bleiberg Entertainment production, the project is an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's novel of the same title which tells about a former circus entertainer who becomes the leader at an asylum populated by Holocaust survivors after being spared the gas chamber by the Nazi.
Three to Tell "Go Go Tales"
November 28, 2006 03:11:46
Coming together on one screen, Willem Dafoe, Matthew Modine, and Bob Hoskins have all given their agreement to take part in "Go Go Tales", a screwball comedy coming from writer-director Abel Ferrara.
Here Dafoe will become the co-owner of a New York go-go dancing club while Modine is billed as his brother also his financial backer who threatens to pull the plug on his business and Hoskins as the owner plus his accountant.
Willem Dafoe to Take Part in "Anamorph"
November 25, 2005 09:11:57Willem Dafoe, the actor best known for his role in "Spider Man," has landed his feet on Henry S. Miller's direction entitled "Anamorph." The film will see Dafoe portraying Stan Aubrey, a veteran cop investigating a serial killer who may be a copycat killer based on a famous murderer Stan allegedly disposed of five years ago. As the killings go on, his partner Carl Unger begins to suspect that Stan didn't do his due diligence five years ago when he pronounced the killer dead.
"Anamorph" is slated to start filming early January next year in the New York area.
