Light Sleeper Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/light-sleeper/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:30:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png Light Sleeper Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/light-sleeper/ 32 32 Willem Dafoe: The Essential Films & Performances https://staging2.theplaylist.net/willem-dafoe-the-essential-films-performances-20210616/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/willem-dafoe-the-essential-films-performances-20210616/#respond Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:07:45 +0000 https://theplaylist.net/?p=423686 Willem Dafoe: The Essential Films & Performances

The great Willem Dafoe was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1955. Since his first uncredited appearance in Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate” – in which Dafoe, enjoying his first real Hollywood gig before going on to star in Kathryn Bigelow’s arty biker tone poem “The Loveless,” would go on to be fired for lying about speaking Dutch – the Oscar-nominated actor has featured in over a hundred films, all of which are automatically more interesting because he is in them.  

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Dafoe’s career runs the gamut from the arthouse to the larger DC superhero universe; over the course of his remarkable, far-ranging filmography, the actor has undeniably mastered playing all manners of creeps, psychos, and misunderstood souls.

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