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Embeth Davidtz
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 Di…
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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. 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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2025
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Movie Nicola Fuller
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2023
Retribution
Movie Heather Turner
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2022
Tales of the Walking Dead
TV show Amanda
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2022
Not Okay
Movie Judith
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2021
Old
Movie Adult Maddox
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2020
Love, Victor
TV show Mrs. Campbell
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2019
The Morning Show
TV show Paige Jacobs
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2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
TV show Natasha Lytess
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2014
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Movie Self
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2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Movie Mary Parker
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2013
Paranoia
Movie Judith Bolton
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2013
Ray Donovan
TV show Sonia Kovitzky
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2013
Europa Report
Movie Dr. Samantha Unger
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2013
Miracle Rising: South Africa
Movie Self
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2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
Movie Mary Parker
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2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Movie Annika Blomkvist Giannini
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2010
3 Backyards
Movie The Actress
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2009
Winged Creatures
Movie Lydia Jaspersen
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2008
In Treatment
TV show Amy
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2007
Californication
TV show Felicia Koons
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2007
Mad Men
TV show Rebecca Pryce
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2007
Fracture
Movie Jennifer Crawford
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2005
Junebug
Movie Madeleine
- 2005
- 2005
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
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2002
The Emperor's Club
Movie Elizabeth
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2002
Shackleton
TV show Rosalind Chetwynd
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2001
Thir13en Ghosts
Movie Kalina
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2001
Scrubs
TV show Maddie
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2001
Citizen Baines
TV show Ellen Baines Croland
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2001
The Hole
Movie Dr. Philippa Horwood
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2001
Bridget Jones's Diary
Movie Natasha
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1999
Bicentennial Man
Movie Little Miss / Portia
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1999
Mansfield Park
Movie Mary Crawford
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1999
Last Rites
Movie Dr. Lauren Riggs
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1999
Simon Magus
Movie Leah
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1998
The Gingerbread Man
Movie Mallory Doss
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1998
Fallen
Movie Gretta Milano
