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Name
Embeth Davidtz

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1965-08-11 (61 years old)

Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Biography

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1993 Schindler's List as Helen Hirsch
2001 The Hole as Dr. Philippa Horwood
2005 Junebug as Madeleine
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary as Natasha
1992 Army of Darkness as Sheila
1999 Bicentennial Man as Little Miss / Portia
1999 Mansfield Park as Mary Crawford
1996 Matilda as Miss Honey
2007 Fracture as Jennifer Crawford
2022 Not Okay as Judith
1995 Murder in the First as Mary McCasslin
1998 Fallen as Gretta Milano
1998 The Gingerbread Man as Mallory Doss
2001 Thir13en Ghosts as Kalina
1989 Mutator as Jennifer
2009 Winged Creatures as Lydia Jaspersen
2002 The Emperor's Club as Elizabeth
2010 3 Backyards as The Actress
2023 Retribution as Heather Turner
2013 Paranoia as Judith Bolton
2013 Europa Report as Dr. Samantha Unger
2013 Miracle Rising: South Africa as Self
2005 Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda' as Self
2005 My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson as Self
1990 Sweet Murder
1989 A Private Life as Older Karen
2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
2012 The Amazing Spider-Man as Mary Parker
2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Mary Parker
1995 Feast of July as Bella Ford
2014 Nelson Mandela Redrawn as Self
1992 Deadly Matrimony as Dianne Masters
2025 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight as Nicola Fuller
1999 Last Rites as Dr. Lauren Riggs
1992 Till Death Us Do Part as Katherine Palliko
1997 The Garden of Redemption as Adriana
1999 Simon Magus as Leah
2021 Old as Adult Maddox
1991 The Night of the 19th as Tessa van Dyk
2018 An Oral History of: Schindler's List as Self (archive footage)

2007 Californication ( 10 episodes ) as Felicia Koons
2001 Citizen Baines ( 9 episodes ) as Ellen Baines Croland
2002 Shackleton ( 2 episodes ) as Rosalind Chetwynd
2020 Love, Victor ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Campbell
2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 1 episode ) as Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
2019 The Morning Show ( 5 episodes ) as Paige Jacobs
2013 Ray Donovan ( 4 episodes ) as Sonia Kovitzky
2007 Mad Men ( 8 episodes ) as Rebecca Pryce
2008 In Treatment ( 8 episodes ) as Amy
2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe ( 2 episodes ) as Natasha Lytess
2022 Tales of the Walking Dead ( 1 episode ) as Amanda
2005 Grey's Anatomy ( 1 episode ) as Nancy Shepherd
2001 Scrubs ( 1 episode ) as Maddie
1985 Screen Two ( 1 episode ) as Older Karen

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