If Willem laughs Dafoe, madness is not far. His character face is made for the many villain roles for which he is known in the mainstream cinema. In recent years he was still concerned that he was only cast for this type. But now not only Hollywood knows that the energetic 70-year-old can see much more than evil. When William James Dafoe born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the son of a surgeon and a nurse in 1955, he came to art through the theater of experimental Wooster Group.