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About Willem DaFoeBy Cathy Richey, the Cathy Factor
His father, William Sr., was a surgeon. His mother, Muriel, was a nurse. He is the second youngest of eight children who all look and sound alike. But the similarities end there: Willem was the only Dafoe to follow an artistic path, while his siblings took the well-trod professional route, becoming lawyers, nurses, and doctors. At 17, Dafoe enrolled at the University of Wisconsin. The drama department failed to hold his interest, so he joined Milwaukee's avant-garde Theater X troupe. Two years of touring with the company showed him the greater part of the U.S. and Europe. Dafoe's next stop was Manhattan, where in 1977 he landed a promising role in a production with the Performance Group. There, he met artistic director Elizabeth LeCompte. They shared a home together and had a son named Jack. Dafoe and LeCompte eventually founded the celebrated Wooster Group, known for its unique multimedia-deconstructionist style of theater. After dozens of shows, Dafoe made his film debut as a featured extra in Michael Cimino's ill-conceived Heaven's Gate. In 1985, he landed his first sizable role in To Live and Die in L.A. A year later, he earned a breakthrough (and Oscar-nominated) role as the messiah-like Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986). Non-mainstream performances in mainstream films followed: Alan Parker cast Dafoe as a straight-laced F.B.I. agent in 1988's Mississippi Burning (1988) and the following year, Stone called upon him again to play a bitter disabled veteran in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). That same year, Dafoe was in the headlines due to his title-role assignment in one of the most controversial films of all time: Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). In recent years, Dafoe has had the luxury of being discriminating in his choice of roles: "I don't get paid seven million for the movies I do, and when I'm top banana, they're not big studio movies. . . . I can switch hit, I can go and make a small movie, I can make a big movie." He definitely has divided his efforts between big and small projects: In the early '90s, he played the loathsome Bobby Peru in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), a drug dealer in Light Sleeper (1991), T.S. Eliot in Tom & Viv (1994), and a lawyer who finds himself knee-high in some very nasty Madonna-related business in Body of Evidence (1993). In the late '90s, Dafoe starred in the 1996 epic The English Patient (1996); continued his mean streak in Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997); co-starred alongside Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek in Affliction (1997); and visited the virtual-reality realm in the David Cronenberg sci-fier eXistenZ (1999). Dafoe had a banner year in 2000, playing an eccentric homosexual FBI agent in "Boondock Saints." He has twice been nominated for Supporting Actor Academy Awards:
in 2001 for his role in Shadow of the Vampire (2000) and in 1987 for
Platoon (1986). In 2010, he won a Bodil award for Best Actor in
Antichrist (2009). Dafoe, whose birth name was William Dafoe Jr., is a vegetarian. He was known as Billy in Junior high but was nicknamed Willem in high school, and the name stuck. Significant Others:
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