Willem Dafoe
- Born: 22 Jul, 1955
A wiry, pale, sharp-featured veteran of experimental theater, Willem Dafoe soared to stardom and earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actor playing the Christ-like Sgt. Elias in the Academy Award-winning "Platoon" (1986). Prior to that performance, Dafoe used his menacing features and languid delivery to create an air of intensity for a succession of roles as toughs and villains. He made his feature debut as a poet-biker in Kathryn Bigelow's first feature, "The Loveless" (1981), an mannered film about the motorcycle mystique. Dafoe donned leather again as the vicious gang leader in Walter Hill's oddball rock-n-roll action flick, "Streets of Fire" (1984). He oozed erotic evil as a dangerous counterfeiter in William Friedkin's scalding "To Live an...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father William Dafoe:
- sisters : has five; Dafoe was the seventh of eight children
- brothers : has two; Dafoe was the seventh of eight children
- son Jack Dafoe: born c. 1982; mother, Elizabeth LeCompte
- Elizabeth LeCompte: born c. 1945; member and director of the Wooster Group; awarded a MacArthur grant in 1995 for $310,000
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