1965-08-11 ( 59 years old ) in Lafayette, Indiana, USA
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.
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.
Movies
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2024-08-30
Retribution
2023-08-23
Not Okay
2022-07-29
Old
2021-07-21
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014-07-18
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014-04-16
Paranoia
2013-08-14
Europa Report
2013-06-27
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013-02-09
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012-06-23
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011-12-14
3 Backyards
2010-01-24
Winged Creatures
2009-07-08
Fracture
2007-04-19
Junebug
2005-08-03
The Emperor's Club
2002-11-22
Thir13en Ghosts
2001-10-26
The Hole
2001-04-20
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001-04-13
Bicentennial Man
1999-12-17
Mansfield Park
1999-11-12
Last Rites
1999-05-20
Simon Magus
1999-02-17
The Gingerbread Man
1998-01-23
Fallen
1998-01-16
The Garden of Redemption
1997-05-25
Matilda
1996-08-02
Feast of July
1995-10-12
Murder in the First
1995-01-20
Schindler's List
1993-12-15
Deadly Matrimony
1992-11-22
Army of Darkness
1992-10-31
Till Death Us Do Part
1992-02-18
Nag van die 19de
1991-07-19
Sweet Murder
1990-04-30
A Private Life
1989-11-14
Mutator
1989-05-15
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