Embeth Davidtz
Birthday: 1965-08-11 | Place of Birth: Lafayette, Indiana, USAEmbeth 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.
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as Nicola Fuller
as Mary Parker
as Mary Parker
as Heather Turner
as Judith
as Self
as Natasha Lytess
as Natasha Lytess
as Self
as Dr. Samantha Unger
as Herself
as Judith Bolton
as Lydia Jaspersen
as Jennifer Crawford
as Sheila
as Madeleine
as Elizabeth
as Dr. Philippa Horwood
as Ellen Baines Croland
as Kalina
as Leah
as Natasha
as Dr. Lauren Riggs
as Little Miss / Portia
as Gretta Milano
as Mallory Doss
