Willem Dafoe, the brand new inventive director of the Venice Biennale Theater

Immediately, the American actor Willem Dafoe is formally the inventive director of the Venice Biennale Theater, a place given to him for his lengthy profession on the stage earlier than turning to movie and Hollywood.

Dafoe shall be on the helm of the distinguished area for the following few years, as introduced by the president of the Biennale’s Board of Administrators, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco.

The 68-year-old actor, a four-time Oscar nominee for Finest Actor, was shocked and blissful on the information and expressed his gratitude.

I’m conscious of being referred to as a movie actor, however I used to be born within the theater; That medium created me and shocked me. I am a stage animal. The theater taught me in artwork and in life, he stated.

I’ve labored with the Wooster Group (a New York theater firm) for 27 years collaborating with nice administrators, from Richard Foreman to Bob Wilson.

“The path of my theater program shall be documented by my private coaching, as a type of research of the that means of the physique,” Dafoe defined in an announcement.

The well-known actor is married to the Italian filmmaker Giada Colagrande, and is an actor with an experimental vocation and unorthodox selections, revealing the assembly narrative within the phrases of Buttafuoco.

He started his inventive profession from his college days in Milwaukee, the place on the age of 19 he joined Theater X (1975-1977), one of many first theater analysis teams in the US known as Residing and Grotowski affect, he recalled.

In 2016 he participated within the Biennial Theater within the Masterclass part with a workshop devoted to the appearing occupation and thru this, already in cinema, he obtained many worldwide recognitions.

Unbiased of his Oscar nominations – the final one in 2019 for “Van Gogh” -, Dafoe was additionally nominated for 4 Golden Globes – the most recent in 2024 for the movie “Poor Creatures”, winner the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Competition.

In 2018 he gained the Volpi Cup for the most effective actor for “Eternity’s Gate”, with Julian Schnabel, and, this yr he shall be one of many predominant filmmakers who will open the 81st version of the Venetian movie competition: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, by Tim Burton.