Embeth Davidtz
35 movies · 13 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 11, 1965 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Also known as
- Embeth Jean Davidtz · امبت دیویتز
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
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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
Embeth Davidtz: movies and TV shows
Acting (48)
- 2025 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
as Nicola Fuller
- 2023 Retribution
as Heather Turner
- 2022
- 2022 Not Okay
as Judith
- 2021 Old
as Adult Maddox
- 2020
- 2019
- 2015
- 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Mary Parker
- 2013 Paranoia
as Judith Bolton
- 2013
- 2013 Europa Report
as Dr. Samantha Unger
- 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man
as Mary Parker
- 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
- 2010 3 Backyards
as The Actress
- 2009 Winged Creatures
as Lydia Jaspersen
- 2008
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007 Fracture
as Jennifer Crawford
- 2005 Junebug
as Madeleine
- 2005
- 2002 The Emperor's Club
as Elizabeth
- 2002
- 2001 Thir13en Ghosts
as Kalina
- 2001
- 2001
- 2001 The Hole
as Dr. Philippa Horwood
- 2001 Bridget Jones's Diary
as Natasha
- 1999 Bicentennial Man
as Little Miss / Portia
- 1999 Mansfield Park
as Mary Crawford
- 1999 Last Rites
as Dr. Lauren Riggs
- 1999 Simon Magus
as Leah
- 1998 The Gingerbread Man
as Mallory Doss
- 1998 Fallen
as Gretta Milano
- 1997 The Garden of Redemption
as Adriana
- 1996 Matilda
as Miss Honey
- 1995 Feast of July
as Bella Ford
- 1995 Murder in the First
as Mary McCasslin
- 1993 Schindler's List
as Helen Hirsch
- 1992 Deadly Matrimony
as Dianne Masters
- 1992 Army of Darkness
as Sheila
- 1992 Till Death Us Do Part
as Katherine Palliko
- 1991 The Night of the 19th
as Tessa van Dyk
- 1990
- 1989 A Private Life
as Older Karen
- 1989 Mutator
as Jennifer
- 1985
Behind the camera (2)
- 2025 Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Director, Screenplay, Producer
- 2005
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2018
- 2014
- 2013
- 2005