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Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965) is an American-born South African actress and director. She has appeared in movies such as Schindler's List, Matilda, Bridget Jones's Diary, and The Amazing Spider-Man, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, and Mad Men.
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In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, an adaptation of the best-selling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller about growing up on a farm in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. The film had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, in Lafayette, Indiana, to South African parents John and Jean, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. The family later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then to South Africa when Davidtz was nine years old
Davidtz has Dutch, English, and French ancestry. She had to learn Afrikaans before attending school classes in South Africa, where her father took up a teaching post at Potchefstroom University. Davidtz graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983 and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.
In 1992, Davidtz played the part of Sheila in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness alongside Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams. The third movie in the Evil Dead franchise would eventually become a big cult classic worldwide. In 1993, Davidtz played the role of Helen Hirsch in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.
In 1995, Davidtz had a central role in the fact-based film Murder in the First, and the Merchant Ivory Productions Feast of July.
Biographie en anglais, source TMDb.
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- 2025Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightNicola Fuller
- 2023RetributionHeather Turner
- 2022Not OkayJudith
- 2021OldAdult Maddox
- 2014The Amazing Spider-Man : Le Destin d'un héros (The Amazing Spider-Man 2)Mary Parker
- 2013Paranoïa (Paranoia)Judith Bolton
- 2013Europa ReportDr. Samantha Unger
- 2012The Amazing Spider-ManMary Parker
- 2011Millénium : Les Hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)Annika Blomkvist Giannini
- 20103 BackyardsThe Actress
- 2009Fragments (Winged Creatures)Lydia Jaspersen
- 2007La Faille (Fracture)Jennifer Crawford
- 2005JunebugMadeleine
- 2002Le Club des empereurs (The Emperor's Club)Elizabeth
- 200113 fantômes (Thir13en Ghosts)Kalina
- 2001The HoleDr. Philippa Horwood
- 2001Le Journal de Bridget Jones (Bridget Jones's Diary)Natasha
- 1999L'Homme Bicentenaire (Bicentennial Man)Little Miss / Portia
- 1999Mansfield ParkMary Crawford
- 1999Last RitesDr. Lauren Riggs
- 1999Simon MagusLeah
- 1998The Gingerbread ManMallory Doss
- 1998Le Témoin du mal (Fallen)Gretta Milano
- 1997The Garden of RedemptionAdriana
- 1996MatildaMiss Honey
- 1995Feast of JulyBella Ford
- 1995Meurtre à Alcatraz (Murder in the First)Mary McCasslin
- 1993La Liste de Schindler (Schindler's List)Helen Hirsch
- 1992Jack Reed: La loi de Chicago/L'affaire Diane Masters (Deadly Matrimony)Dianne Masters
- 1992Evil dead 3 : L'armée des ténèbres (Army of Darkness)Sheila
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- 1992Till Death Us Do PartKatherine Palliko
- 1991Nag van die 19deTessa van Dyk
- 1990Sweet Murder
- 1989A Private LifeOlder Karen
- 1989Coup de griffe mortel (Mutator)Jennifer
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