Actor box office profile
Willem Dafoe
221 acting credits tracked, with 56 films carrying usable worldwide financial data.
#33Worldwide rank
Credited worldwide
$9.11B56 matched films
Average gross
$162.8Mreported films
Median gross
$34.4Mreported films
Top movie
Spider-Man: No Way Home$2.02B
Career history
Box office filmography
Eligible acting credits with reported worldwide theatrical gross.| Year | Film / character | Worldwide | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 |  Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceJackson |
$452.0M | Actor |
| 2024 |  Kinds of KindnessRaymond / George / Omi |
$16.4M | Actor |
| 2024 |  NosferatuProf. Albin Eberhart von Franz |
$181.8M | Actor |
| 2023 |  Poor ThingsGodwin Baxter |
$117.6M | Actor |
| 2022 |  The NorthmanHeimir the Fool |
$69.6M | Actor |
| 2021 |  Nightmare AlleyClem Hoatley |
$39.6M | Actor |
| 2021 |  Spider-Man: No Way HomeNorman Osborn / Green Goblin |
$2.02B | Actor |
| 2021 |  The Card CounterGordo |
$5.0M | Actor |
| 2019 |  Motherless BrooklynPaul Randolph |
$18.4M | Actor |
| 2019 |  The LighthouseThomas Wake |
$18.3M | Actor |
| 2018 |  AquamanNuidis Vulko |
$1.15B | Actor |
| 2017 |  Murder on the Orient ExpressGerhard Hardman |
$352.8M | Actor |
| 2017 |  The Florida ProjectBobby |
$11.3M | Actor |
| 2017 |  What Happened to MondayTerrence Settman |
$28.0M | Actor |
| 2016 |  The Great WallBallard |
$332.0M | Actor |
| 2014 |  A Most Wanted ManTommy Brue |
$31.6M | Actor |
| 2014 |  John WickMarcus |
$86.1M | Actor |
| 2014 |  The Fault in Our StarsPeter van Houten |
$307.2M | Actor |
| 2014 |  The Grand Budapest HotelJopling |
$174.6M | Actor |
| 2013 |  Out of the FurnaceJohn Petty |
$15.4M | Actor |
| 2010 |  DaybreakersLionel 'Elvis' Cormac |
$51.4M | Actor |
| 2009 | $7.4M | Actor | |
| 2009 |  Fantastic Mr. FoxRat (voice) |
$46.5M | Voice role |
| 2007 |  Mr. Bean's HolidayCarson Clay |
$232.2M | Actor |
| 2006 |  American DreamzChief of Staff |
$16.7M | Actor |
| 2006 |  Inside ManJohn Darius |
$186.0M | Actor |
| 2006 |  Paris Je T'aimeLe cow-boy (Place des Victoires) |
$17.5M | Actor |
| 2005 |  xXx: State of the UnionGen. George Octavius Deckert |
$71.4M | Actor |
| 2004 |  The ClearingArnold Mack |
$12.5M | Actor |
| 2004 |  The Life Aquatic with Steve ZissouKlaus Daimler |
$34.8M | Actor |
| 2003 |  Finding NemoGill (voice) |
$940.3M | Voice role |
| 2003 |  Once Upon a Time in MexicoArmando Barillo |
$98.8M | Actor |
| 2002 |  Auto FocusJohn Carpenter |
$2.1M | Actor |
| 2002 |  Spider-ManGreen Goblin / Norman Osborn |
$821.7M | Actor |
| 2001 |  Pavilion of WomenFather Andre |
$1.0M | Actor |
| 2000 |  American PsychoDonald Kimball |
$34.3M | Actor |
| 2000 |  Shadow of the VampireMax Schreck |
$8.3M | Actor |
| 1999 |  eXistenZGas |
$2.9M | Actor |
| 1998 |  AfflictionRolfe Whitehouse |
$6.3M | Actor |
| 1997 |  Speed 2: Cruise ControlGeiger |
$164.5M | Actor |
| 1996 |  BasquiatThe Electrician |
$3.0M | Actor |
| 1996 |  The English PatientDavid Caravaggio |
$232.0M | Actor |
| 1994 |  Clear and Present DangerJohn Clark |
$215.9M | Actor |
| 1993 |  Body of EvidenceFrank Dulaney |
$38.0M | Actor |
| 1993 |  Faraway, So Close!Emit Flesti |
$810,455 | Actor |
| 1992 |  Light SleeperJohn LeTour |
$1.1M | Actor |
| 1992 |  White SandsDeputy Sheriff Ray Dolezal |
$9.0M | Actor |
| 1991 |  Flight of the IntruderLt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole |
$14.6M | Actor |
| 1990 |  Wild at HeartBobby Peru |
$14.6M | Actor |
| 1989 |  Born on the Fourth of JulyCharlie |
$161.0M | Actor |
| 1988 |  Mississippi BurningAgent Alan Ward |
$34.6M | Actor |
| 1988 |  Off LimitsBuck McGriff |
$7.2M | Actor |
| 1988 | $33.8M | Actor | |
| 1986 |  PlatoonSergeant Elias Grodin |
$138.5M | Actor |
| 1985 |  To Live and Die in L.A.Rick Masters |
$17.3M | Actor |
| 1984 |  Streets of FireRaven Shaddock |
$8.1M | Actor |
Additional acting creditsCredits without usable worldwide box office data165
| Year | Film / character | Status | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Late FameEd Saxberger |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2026 | TenzingColonel John Hunt |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2026 |  The Birthday PartyMarcos Timoleon |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2026 | The Resurrection of ChristActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2026 | The SouffleurLucius |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2026 | WerwulfActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 | Avrio VradyDancing man |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 | Grande EnvieCount |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 | Pet Shop DaysFrancis |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 |  The Legend of OchiMaxim |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 |  The Man in My BasementAnniston Bennett |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2025 | Financial data pending | Actor | |
| 2025 | Zero(voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2024 | Can Creativity Save the World?Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2024 |  Finally DawnRufo Priori |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2024 | Jesus Goes to HollywoodSelf (archive footage) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2024 | Nosferatu: An Inside LookSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2024 | run 002Acting credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2024 |  Saturday NightDavid Tebet |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2023 |  Asteroid CitySaltzburg Keitel |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2023 | Gonzo GirlWalker Reade |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2023 |  InsideNemo |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2023 | Interior (The Spectator)Narrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2023 | The Wild OneNarrator (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2023 | Willem DafoeActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | 7 Deaths of Maria CallasFilm Actor |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Creation of the Kingdom of ExodusSelf / Grand Duc |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 |  Dead for a DollarJoe Cribbens |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Finding SatoshiNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Franco Battiato - La voce del padroneActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Il coraggio di essere FrancoSé stesso |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the MysteriousSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2022 | Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way HomeSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2021 | Maresco / PasoliniSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2021 | RiverNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2021 |  The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening SunAlbert 'the Abacus' |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2021 | Why Are We (Not) Creative?Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2021 | Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueVulko |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | Babenco: Tell Me When I DieSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | Roy's World: Barry Gifford's ChicagoActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | SiberiaClint |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | Sportin' LifeSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | The Last Thing He WantedRichard McMahon |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | The Lighthouse: A Dark & Stormy TaleSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | TommasoTommaso |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2020 | Wim Wenders, DesperadoSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2019 | Love, AntoshaSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2019 | Manou the SwiftManou's Father (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2019 | TogoLeonhard Seppala |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2019 | Vincent van Gogh SuperstarVincent van Gogh (archive footage) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | At Eternity's GateVincent van Gogh |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | Brothers in ArmsSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | Friedkin UncutSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | Opus ZeroPaul |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | Theatron. Romeo CastellucciActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 | Under the Rainbow: Making The Florida ProjectSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2018 |  Vox LuxNarrator (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2017 | Ballad of a Righteous MerchantSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2017 | Death NoteRyuk (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2017 | Julian Schnabel: A Private PortraitSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2017 |  MountainNarrator (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2017 | Piazza VittorioHimself |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2017 | SanctuaryNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 |  A Family ManEd Blackridge |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 |  Dog Eat DogMad Dog |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 | FatherJames Verdun |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 |  Finding DoryGill (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2016 | Mind the GapSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 | My Hindu FriendDiego Fairman |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 | Nelson Algren LiveRole1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2016 | SculptActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2015 | Don't F*#% With John WickSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2015 | Fukushima: A Nuclear StoryNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2015 | John Wick: Calling in the CavalrySelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2015 | The Making of A Most Wanted ManSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2014 | Bad CountryBud Carter |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2014 | PasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2014 | SPYMASTER: John le Carré in Hamburg(archive footage) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2013 | Love's RoutineBarry |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2013 | Financial data pending | Actor | |
| 2013 |  Odd ThomasWyatt Porter |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2013 | Saving NormanLionel Pembrooke |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2013 | The Benaki MuseumNarrator (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2013 | The Smile ManWillem |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2012 | Financial data pending | Actor | |
| 2012 | Bob Wilson's Life & Death of Marina AbramovicSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2012 |  John CarterTars Tarkas |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2012 | Tomorrow You're GoneThe Buddha |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2011 |  The HunterMartin David |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2010 | A WomanMax Oliver |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2010 | Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The WorldNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2010 |  MiralEddie |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2010 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye DoneDetective Hank Havenhurst |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2010 | The Making of DaybreakersSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2009 |  Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's AssistantGavner Purl |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2009 | FarewellFeeney |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2009 |  The Boondock Saints II: All Saints DayPaul Smecker (uncredited) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2008 | Adam ResurrectedCommandat Klein |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2008 |  Fireflies in the GardenCharles Waechter |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2008 |  Go Go TalesRay Ruby |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2008 | The Dust of TimeA |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 | AnamorphStan Aubray |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 | Cannes: All AccessSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 |  Spider-Man 3Green Goblin / Norman Osborn |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 | The ProcedureChristopher |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 |  The WalkerLarry Lockner |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema(segment "Occupations") (archive footage) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2007 | Voom PortraitsSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 | Before It Had a NameLeslie |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 |  Jiminy Glick in LalawoodWillem Dafoe (uncredited) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 |  ManderlayGrace's Father |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 | Matthew Gray Gubler's Life Aquatic Intern JournalSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 | On the Set: 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'Self / Klaus D. |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 | Ripley Under GroundNeil Murchison |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2005 | This Is an AdventureSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 | Behind the Scenes of 'Spider-Man'Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 | ControlDr. Michael Copeland |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 | Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's GateNarrator (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2004 | Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at HeartActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 |  Spider-Man 2Green Goblin / Norman Osborn |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 |  The AviatorRoland Sweet |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 | The MisbehaversSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2004 | The ReckoningMartin |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2003 | Abel Ferrara: Not GuiltyActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2003 | Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2003 | OvernightSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2003 | Rockets Redglare!Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2002 | Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2002 | Globehunters: An Around the World in 80 Days AdventureHunter (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 2002 | Spider-ManiaSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2002 | The Spider-Man StorySelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2001 | A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon'Self |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2001 | Edges of the LordPriest |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2000 |  Animal FactoryEarl Copen |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 2000 | BullfighterFather Ramirez |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1999 | Forrest Bess: Key to the RiddleNarrator |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1999 | Financial data pending | Actor | |
| 1999 |  The Boondock SaintsPaul Smecker |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1998 | Lulu on the BridgeDr. Van Horn |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1997 | Wrong GuysJack Straw |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1996 | VictoryAxel Heyst |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1995 | The Night and the MomentThe Writer |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1994 | Tom & VivTom Eliot |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1993 | Brace Up!Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1993 | Rhyme 'Em to DeathActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1993 | White Homeland CommandoKarl |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1992 | Blast 'EmSelf (uncredited) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1992 | North on EversActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1990 |  Cry-BabyHateful Guard |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1989 | Triumph of the SpiritSalamo Arouch |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1988 | Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of ChristSelf |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from VietnamElephant Grass (voice) |
Financial data pending | Voice role |
| 1985 | O PanamaActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1984 | Atalanta StrategyImmigration Staff |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1984 | New York NightsBoyfriend |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1984 | Roadhouse 66Johnny Harte |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1984 | The LovelessVance |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1983 |  The Hunger2nd Phone Booth Youth |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| 1980 |  Heaven's GateWilly (uncredited) |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | A Christmas CarolEbenezer Scrooge |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | CuddleDante |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | The Sleeping ShepherdActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | Time OutActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | TropicoRaymond |
Financial data pending | Actor |
| — | White LiesActing credit |
Financial data pending | Actor |
Chronology
Cumulative credited worldwide gross
1984Streets of Fire$8.1M
1985To Live and Die in L.A.$25.4M
1986Platoon$163.9M
1988Off Limits$171.2M
1988The Last Temptation of Christ$204.9M
1988Mississippi Burning$239.5M
1989Born on the Fourth of July$400.5M
1990Wild at Heart$415.1M
1991Flight of the Intruder$429.7M
1992White Sands$438.7M
1992Light Sleeper$439.8M
1993Body of Evidence$477.8M
1993Faraway, So Close!$478.6M
1994Clear and Present Danger$694.5M
1996Basquiat$697.5M
1996The English Patient$929.5M
1997Speed 2: Cruise Control$1.09B
1998Affliction$1.10B
1999eXistenZ$1.10B
2000American Psycho$1.14B
2000Shadow of the Vampire$1.15B
2001Pavilion of Women$1.15B
2002Spider-Man$1.97B
2002Auto Focus$1.97B
2003Finding Nemo$2.91B
2003Once Upon a Time in Mexico$3.01B
2004The Clearing$3.02B
2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou$3.06B
2005xXx: State of the Union$3.13B
2006American Dreamz$3.15B
2006Inside Man$3.33B
2006Paris Je T'aime$3.35B
2007Mr. Bean's Holiday$3.58B
2009Antichrist$3.59B
2009Fantastic Mr. Fox$3.63B
2010Daybreakers$3.69B
2013Out of the Furnace$3.70B
2014The Grand Budapest Hotel$3.88B
2014The Fault in Our Stars$4.18B
2014A Most Wanted Man$4.21B
2014John Wick$4.30B
2016The Great Wall$4.63B
2017What Happened to Monday$4.66B
2017The Florida Project$4.67B
2017Murder on the Orient Express$5.02B
2018Aquaman$6.18B
2019The Lighthouse$6.20B
2019Motherless Brooklyn$6.21B
2021The Card Counter$6.22B
2021Nightmare Alley$6.26B
2021Spider-Man: No Way Home$8.28B
2022The Northman$8.35B
2023Poor Things$8.46B
2024Kinds of Kindness$8.48B
2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice$8.93B
2024Nosferatu$9.11B
Milestones
Career thresholds
18$100M+ films
4$500M+ films
2$1B+ films