Willem Dafoe has been acting since 1980 and has a decades-long career. He's racked up four Academy Award nominations in that time for roles in Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project , and At Eternity's Gate. He can currently be seen in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as ghost detective Wolf Jackson.
Everyone knows Willem Dafoe as a distinguished actor, but one of his most underrated roles is being a father. Dafoe became dad to his only child, Jack Dafoe , in 1982. While Willem and Jack's mother Elizabeth LeCompte are both in entertainment, Jack is an environmentalist lawyer and police researcher, working to create a better tomorrow for the world.
Here's what you need to know about Willem Dafoe's only son, Jack.
Who is Jack Dafoe's mother?
Jack Dafoe's mother is Elizabeth LeCompte. She and Willem started dating in 1977 after meeting in The Wooster Group theater troupe. They were together for 25 years before separating in 2004. They were never married. LeCompte is an experimental theater director who lives in New York City.
Dafoe told The Guardian in 2010 that he and LeCompte never married because she didn't like the concept. "She's the mother of my son, but we never married because to her marriage represented ownership, and I respected that," he said. "But after a while, I was more interested in getting married than she was. Increasingly, I found it's not so good going around saying: 'I'm with this person, but I'm not married to them.' It's confusing to you and other people."
Jack told The New Yorker in 2007 that his mother was always confident, but she did not think she could take ownership of the theater troupe where she and Willem first fell in love.
"Liz still spends a certain amount of time hiding herself. I think she was always confident, but maybe she didn’t think that as a woman she could do that—step center stage as the auteur," he said.
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Who is Jack Dafoe's stepmother?
Willem Dafoe is currently married to Italian actress Giada Colagrande , whom he met while he was filming Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou . The pair tied the knot in 2005 after less than a year of dating and a 24-hour engagement.
How old is Willem Dafoe's son, Jack?
Jack was born in 1982. He is currently 42 years old.
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What does Jack Dafoe do for work?
Unlike his parents, Jack has avoided Hollywood. He went to Yale University for his undergrad degree and then went on to the University of Michigan Law School. According to a New Yorker profile of his mother , Jack worked as a policy researcher in the late aughts. He was a host of the Apollo Alliance in New York City, which promotes clean and sustainable living.
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Who plays Willem Dafoe's son in the Spider-man movies?
One of Willem Dafoe's most iconic roles is Norman Osborn in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man films opposite Tobey Maguire . Norman's son and Peter Parker's best friend Harry was played by James Franco in Spider-Man , Spider-Man 2 , and Spider-Man 3 .
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