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	Willem Dafoe: The Unofficial Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dafoe Treads The Boards (17 October 2001): Actor Willem Dafoe is enjoying being back in the theatre, especially with the group directed by his partner of 20 years, Elizabeth LeCompte.
		Dafoe Sucks Bat Blood In New Vampire Film (11 January 2001): Actor Willem Dafoe had to "eat" a bat in his new film Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - and it was a "freaky" experience.
		Dafoe refuses to talk about his personal life in interviews, and is sadly too moral to be able to invent something really interesting.
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	Willem Dafoe
		But the similarities end there: Willem was the only Dafoe to follow an artistic bent, while the rest of the brood took the well-trod professional route, becoming lawyers, nurses, and doctors.
		At 17, Dafoe enrolled at the University of Wisconsin.
		Dafoe's next stopover was Manhattan, where, in 1977, he landed a promising role in a production with the Performance Group.
	www.tribute.ca /all_actors/bios/2124.htm (373 words)

	Willem Dafoe , Celebrity profile, bio, biography
		Willem Dafoe is an internationally acclaimed actor on the stage and screen, and continues to bring life to a surprising array of characters.
		Dafoe was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award, and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his transformational performance as Max Shreck in Shadow of the Vampire.
		Dafoe has been a member of the groundbreaking theater company for more than twenty years, helping to define a theatrical language that incorporates influences as diverse as vaudeville and Noh theater.
	www.starglimpse.com /celebs/pages/willem_dafoe/willem_dafoe.shtml (658 words)

	HELLO! Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem is one of those rare actors who moves effortlessly between leads and character parts — and he's equally effective in either.
		Born William Dafoe Junior on July 22, 1955, Willem was raised, the seventh of eight children, in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA, by his doctor father and nurse mother.
		Willem married Italian actress Giada Colagrande in 2005, in an intimate ceremony in New York's City Hall.
	www.hellomagazine.com /profiles/willemdafoe (600 words)

	WILLEM DAFOE INTERVIEW
		Willem Dafoe will screen his very first film --- Kathryn Bigelow’s The Loveless --- at the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman House this Saturday night.
		Dafoe: People are funny --- if something is out of their experience, sometimes they can just literally disconnect and they can be starting at W-I-L-L-E-M and they'll read it as "William" every time.
		Dafoe: It was basically my first movie, in the respect that it was the first that I was the center of.
	www.sick-boy.com /dafoe.htm (1148 words)

	Willem Dafoe interview
		Willem Dafoe is that rare breed of actor who glides effortlessly from one role to the other, from mainstream Hollywood (2002's Spiderman) to independent fare, such as his latest film, Shadow of the Vampire.
		Instead Dafoe aims to be the kind of actor who "can only work from instinct, curiosity and adventure." And, surprisingly Dafoe admits, that sense of adventure is an easier road to follow the older he becomes.
		Dafoe's screen debut was in the disastrous Heaven's Gate in 1981, where his screen time was cut from the film's final release print, saving him the embarrassment of being associated with the film but also making him something of a nonentity.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /feats/interviews/w/willem_dafoe.shtml (1546 words)

	To Live and Die in L.A.: Ritual in the Films of Willem Dafoe
		Dafoe's roles are connected with death and various forms of suffering; even his early action movies or thrillers, with their car, plane, or boat chases ending in sensational, sometimes cartoon-like crashes and deaths, are underscored by metaphysical subtexts adding a spiritual or ritual dimension to the visible surface reality.
		Half-undressed, Dafoe is strapped to a stretcher while the total transformation brought about by a newly developed chemical is made visible in the contorted movements of his body and face (9).
		Dafoe's ongoing search for re-invention, aiming for what critics (35) call the “essence” of theatre, a kind of acting that lays bare the fundamentals of human existence as if on the very edge of survival, affects the entirety of the film productions he is part of.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/04/32/willem_dafoe.html (7641 words)

	Willem Dafoe - Cranky Critic® StarTalk - Movie Star Interviews
		Dafoe admits that that sense of adventure is an easier road the older he becomes.
		Dafoe's 1981 film debut was a decidedly mixed blessing, as it consisted of a minor role in Michael Cimino's now infamous Heaven's Gate.
		Ultimately, Dafoe's screen time was cut from the film's final release print, saving him the embarrassment of being associated with the film but also making him something of a nonentity.
	www.crankycritic.com /qa/pf_articles/williamdafoe.html (1462 words)

	Willem Dafoe Web Page At MyStarLinks.com
		Dafoe began acting as a teenager, and at the age of seventeen he enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
		Dafoe's 1981 film debut was a decidedly mixed blessing, as it consisted of a minor role in Michael Cimino's disastrous Heaven's Gate.
		Willem Dafoe is that rare breed of actor who glides effortlessly from one role to the other, from...
	www.mystarlinks.com /stars/willemdafoe.php (1327 words)

	Willem Dafoe Biography
		Willem found himself at odds with the theatre department, believing there was too much attitude and not enough talent.
		Dafoe plays her lawyer, who himself falls for her kinky charms, allowing her to pour hot wax on his privates, but then suspects that she may actually be a killer.
		Dafoe questions the locals but they're in total thrall to the local lord, so he writes a play about the crime, thus the film becomes a fascinating treatise on the power of art to reveal and communicate truth.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/biographies/willem_dafoe_biog.html (4280 words)

	Meg's Boyfriend: Willem Dafoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem dumped me so that he could spend his time writing you love poems (did you even read them, or were you to busy aquiring and dumping Boyfriends at a weekly or semi-weekly rate?) and crying about how lost and lonely he feels in this world all alone without you.
		Willem gets to use his devious grin a lot in this one, which makes me happy even though his character didn't hang out nekkid nearly as much as he ought to have.
		Dafoe may not be the most classically handsome actor in America today, but he is, in my opinion, the most talented one.
	home.comcast.net /~mjbrunner1/archive/willemdafoe.html (2322 words)

	Amazon.ca: Victory (Widescreen): DVD: Willem Dafoe,Sam Neill,Irène Jacob,Rufus Sewell,Jean Yanne,Ho Yi,Bill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Heyst (Willem Dafoe) lives alone on the secluded island where he once operated a coal mine.
		The story is a classic good vs. evil allegory, with Heyst (Willem Dafoe) representing a fallen Adam trying to make his way back to paradise.
		Dafoe fits the bill for the Conradian westerner isolating himself in the far east.
	www.amazon.ca /Victory-Widescreen-Willem-Dafoe/dp/B00006JDVY (1388 words)

	Willem Dafoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the seventh of eight children, he acquired the nickname "Willem" in childhood.
		Dafoe's film career began in 1981, when he was cast in Heaven's Gate, but his role was removed from the film during editing.
		Dafoe played peculiar detectives in The Boondock Saints (1999) and in American Psycho (2000).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willem_Dafoe (455 words)

	Willem Doafoe Interview - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But Dafoe can also be convincingly heroic, even godly, as he has frequently demonstrated during his twenty-year film career, most notably in Platoon (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).
		But at the same time, thanks to Dafoe's wizardry, he's an unforgettable, crazily touching creature--snatching a bat from the sky and greedily devouring it one moment, gamely preparing for his close-up the next.
		WILLEM DAFOE: No, it all sounds good to me. I could pretend I don't hear it, but I do.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_1_31/ai_68768270 (801 words)

	Willem Dafoe News
		Like the one where Willem Dafoe asks him if it's OK to give Spike Lee his number, and a couple of hours later he gets a call and the voice at the other end of the line...
		Actor Willem Dafoe was "the perfect fit" for the career achievement award that was presented to him Thursday at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival, according to first-year Locarno artistic director...
		Willem Defoe and his Italian wife Giada Cologrande have been enjoying the delights of Dubrovnik.
	www.topix.net /who/willem-dafoe (670 words)

	I Am A Demented Soul -- Willem Dafoe
		He has a son, Jack, who I think is going into acting as well....(I may be wrong, but if he is....maybe he's just as good as his dad)...and he lives with Elizabeth LeCompte, his partner of 20 years or so (that's a LONG time to stay together w/o getting married, if you ask me)..
		Dafoe says he feels like he's missed out on more conventional roles because he's perceived as an eccentric actor in dark little films, kind of the boy-next-door type -- if you lived next door to a mausoleum.
		Willem admits never reading comics as a kid because he was too busy "being" a comic.
	www.angelfire.com /comics/nosborn2/dafoebio.html (623 words)

	WILLEM DAFOE movie feature with photos
		Dafoe laughs with the question, but also is quick with a response.
		Dafoe said he had been eager to take on a blockbuster movie -- and a villain -- when director Jan De Bont called.
		Dafoe is about to tour with it in Europe.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/s/spesid.html (944 words)

	village voice > film > by Amy Taubin
		Willem Dafoe, who plays Schreck, says he found the premise "delicious." He lets the word hang in the air just long enough to remind you of the scene in the film where he catches a fast-flying bat in his mouth, bites off its head, and swallows it whole.
		Dafoe's wickedly funny performance, a tour de force of comic timing, has already won him an L.A. Film Critics award and may garner him his second supporting-actor Oscar nomination (his first was for Platoon).
		Dafoe, in fact, comes from a Midwestern, middle-class family, although his distinctive voice (omnipresent these days on the tube in those Salomon Smith Barney commercials) sounds like working-class Boston.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0052/taubin.shtml (1094 words)

	The Book LA - Spring 2001 Willem Dafoe
		Willem Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, one of eight children in a comfortably middle-class family.
		willem dafoe: Growing up, my identity was very wrapped up in my family.
		You have been a member of the New York theater company the Wooster Group for 25 years and have credited it with having a profound influence on you.
	www.bookla.com /ws_2001_dafoe.html (367 words)

	Willem Dafoe
		William Dafoe grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, about 100 miles north of Milwaukee, and was nicknamed "Willem" in high school.
		Dafoe joined that city's experimental Theater X, and toured with them for two years before moving to New York in 1977.
		Before his breakthrough in To Live and Die in L.A., Dafoe's film roles were mostly tiny, and usually had him playing oddballs and bad guys.
	www.nndb.com /people/789/000022723 (228 words)

	Willem Dafoe \| movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
		The last time Oscar smiled on Willem Dafoe was 1987, when the Wisconsin-born thespian got a Best Supporting Actor nod for his performance as the saintly, star-crossed Sergeant Elias in Oliver Stone's ''Platoon.'' This time, it's his portrayal of a far less benevolent character that has drawn the Academy's attention.
		Dafoe, who is rendered all but unrecognizable by a magnificently creepy makeup job, fairly oozes warped malevolence.
		Small wonder that Dafoe wanted to sink his teeth into the role: It was written expressly for him.
	www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,194835_1_0_,00.html (467 words)

	Willem DaFoe Failure Watch!
		When threatened with exposure to the real life Willem DaFoe, your first choice should always be to run away.
		Willem DaFoe emits a powerful two foot failure radius - you don't want to get caught inside that bubble, or worse, infect your wife and child later that evening.
		Willem DaFoe is apparently like a cancer, feeding off the failure and misfortune of others.
	faildafoe.blogspot.com (1925 words)

	Willem Dafoe Picture, Profile, Gossip, and News at CelebrityWonder.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A little flattery landed Dafoe in cold water in FINDING NEMO -- Dafoe said it felt good when Director Andrew Stanton brought him in and said he was the only one who could speak for Gil, the leader of the fish in the fish tank.
		In one scene of LIGHT SLEEPER (1991), John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) is shown sitting on his bed watching old photographs and listening to some CDs.
		When Elias (Willem Dafoe) leaves after a dispute among the officers in PLATOON (1986), one of them makes the comment, Been in the bush three years and he thinks he's Jesus F***in Christ.
	www.celebritywonder.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/willemdafoe.html (558 words)

	Cinema Confidential News: 12/20/04 - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Willem Dafoe on "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou"
		Having started out initially as a member of the Wooster touring group, Willem Dafoe leads a career that is extremely focused to the artistry of film and more so than most actors of his caliber.
		I sat down with Willem one-on-one for this exclusive interview and below is what he had to say.
		WILLEM: I think that the biggest, obvious thing is that I’ve never been in a picture that was so wildly successful.
	www.cinecon.com /news.php?id=0412201 (1242 words)

	Willem Dafoe Trivia -- notstarring.com
		Val Kilmer, Willem Dafoe and Benicio del Toro were each considered for the role of Mike Blueberry, but director Jan Kounen remembered conversations he had about shamanism with his friend Vincent Cassel and chose him instead.
		Willem Dafoe was considered for the role of Bill Cutting.
		Willem Dafoe was considered for the voice of Hades.
	www.notstarring.com /actors/dafoe-willem (287 words)

	Willem Dafoe - Moviefone
		Known for the darkly eccentric characters he often plays, Willem Dafoe is one of the screen's more provocative and engaging actors.
		Willem Dafoe on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		Willem Dafoe - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Willem Dafoe Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/willem-dafoe/16547/main (115 words)

	Willem Dafoe Forum @ Filmbug
		I was about to say how gorgeous and talented and damn sexy Willem Dafoe is...til I read some of the other fans comments.
		I wish there were more actors out there that can move me with their performances as Willem.
		I'd just like to say that i think willem dafoe is a great actor, and has a gret range from big hits like Spiderman to smaller movies like the shadow of the vampire.
	www.filmbug.com /db/20743-8 (581 words)

	Willem Dafoe Current Month TV Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon, Michael E Rodgers, Kurt Fuller, Christopher Neiman, Lyle Kanouse.
		Starring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola.
		Two-time Oscar-nominee Willem Dafoe ('Shadow of the Vampire'; 'Platoon') is interviewed.
	www.tv-now.com /stars/dafoe.html (1044 words)

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