Willem Dafoe’s Wife: Everything To Know About Giada Colagrande Their 16 Year Marriage
30.01.2022 - 00:23
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Willem Dafoe, has had one of the most celebrated careers in Hollywood with four Oscar nominations, including one for Best Supporting Actor in 1987’s Platoon and one for Best Actor for playing Vincent Van Gogh in 2019’s At Eternity’s Gate. The 66-year-old Wisconsin native found a new legion of fans as the supervillain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the original Tobey MacGuire Spider-Man trilogy, as well as in the most recent edition of the Marvel web-crawler franchise, Spider-Man: No Way Home.
With the Tom Holland vehicle being one of the biggest blockbusters ever, and Willem hosting Saturday Night Live on January 29, the public is hungry to find out more about the actor’s personal life. From 1977 to 2004, he was married to Elizabeth LeCompte, a founding member of experimental acting company The Wooster Group. The pair welcomed one child together, son Jack, in 1982. Since his marriage to Elizabeth ended, Willem has settled down with Giada Colagrande. Find out all about his second wife, below!
Giada is an Italian filmmaker and actress Giada was born in Pescara, Italy on October 16, 1975, making her younger than Willem by two decades. She studied in Italy, Switzerland and Australia, according to her website. In 1995 she moved to Rome where she began making “video art and documentaries on contemporary art.” For three years from 1997 to 2000, Colagrande was part of an art project called Volume where she “made videos on the works of Jannis Kounellis, Alfredo Pirri, Bernhard Rudiger, Nunzio, Raimund Kummer, Gianni Dessi, Maurizio Savini and Sol Lewitt.”
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In 2001, she wrote, directed, and starred in her first film Aprimi il Cuore, meaning Open My Heart. The movie premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.