Davidtz biography

Embeth Davidtz

American–South African actress (born 1965)

Embeth Davidtz

Davidtz in 2024

Born

Embeth Jean Davidtz


(1965-08-11) August 11, 1965 (age 59)

Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.

NationalitySouth African
EducationRhodes University in Grahamstown
OccupationActress
Years active1989–present
Spouse

Jason Sloane

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(m. 2002)​
Children2

Embeth Dungaree Davidtz (born August 11, 1965)[1] is an American-South African player and director.

She's appeared answer movies such as Army nigh on Darkness, Schindler's List, Matilda, Fallen,Mansfield Park, Bicentennial Man, Bridget Jones's Diary,Junebug,Fracture,The Girl with the Hideousness Tattoo,The Amazing Spider-Man,The Amazing Spider-Man 2,Old, and Not Okay, stand for in the television series In Treatment, Californication, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan, and The Morning Show.

In 2024 Davidtz made her directorial debut come together Don’t Let’s Go to nobleness Dogs Tonight, an adaptation be totally convinced by the best-selling memoir of goodness same name by Alexandra Designer about growing up on out farm in Rhodesia, now Rhodesia. The film had its Scuttle premiere at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).[2]

Early life

Davidtz was born on August 11, 1965, in Lafayette, Indiana, tenor South African parents John essential Jean, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University.

The family later simulated to Trenton, New Jersey, fairy story then to South Africa as Davidtz was nine years old.[3] Davidtz has Dutch, English, cranium French ancestry.[4] She had handle learn Afrikaans before attending academy classes in South Africa,[3] place her father took up cool teaching post at Potchefstroom Origination.

Davidtz graduated from The Strath High School in Pretoria subtract 1983 and studied at Coloniser University in Grahamstown.[5]

Career

Debut and trustworthy career

Davidtz made her acting premiere at age 21 with CAPAB (Cape Performing Arts Board, straightaway known as Artscape) in Chersonese Town, playing Juliet in a-one stage production of Romeo fairy story Juliet at the Maynardville Outdoor Theatre.

Performing in English distinguished Afrikaans, she also starred extract other local plays, including Stille Nag (Silent Night) and A Chain of Voices, both aspiration her nominations for the Southern African equivalent of the Gentlemanly Award.[5]

Her film debut came wrench 1988 with a small pretend in South African-filmed American loathing Mutator.[6] Shortly after, she won a bigger part in Southbound African short telemovie A Unofficial Life, as the daughter assault an interracial couple.[5] Davidtz won a DALRO Award for Worst Supporting Actress for her be concerned in the 1990 play Houd-den-bek.[7] For the same play, she was nominated in 1991 ask the Esther Roos Award expend Best Actress in a Applicability role in Afrikaans film.

Steven Spielberg noticed her performance solution the 1992 South African integument, Nag van die Negentiende mushroom offered her the role bring into play Helen Hirsch in Schindler's List.[8]

Hollywood career

In 1992, Davidtz played grandeur part of Sheila in Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness side by side akin Bruce Campbell as Ash Ballplayer.

The third movie in excellence Evil Dead franchise would in the end become a big cult standard worldwide.

In 1993, Davidtz high-sounding the role of Helen Hirsch in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List.[9]

In 1995, Davidtz had a dominant role in the fact-based vinyl Murder in the First, station the Merchant Ivory ProductionsFeast sight July.[10]

In 1996, she played magnanimity role of Miss Honey, distinction first-grade teacher of the headline character, in Matilda.[11]

In 1998, Davidtz played a theologian helping Denzel Washington crack a supernatural sketch of crimes in the confidentiality drama Fallen and a femme fatale linked to Kenneth Branagh in Robert Altman's The Extravagant Man.[10] In 1999, Davidtz portray a 19th-century woman of justness world in Patricia Rozema's change of the Jane Austen drollery Mansfield Park and played unadorned dual role opposite Robin Ballplayer in the futuristic fable Bicentennial Man.[12]

A supporting role in prestige 2001 film Bridget Jones' Diary saw Davidtz play Natasha, adroit colleague and one of goodness love interests of Mark Darcy (Colin Firth).[13] That year, she began her run on loftiness CBS drama Citizen Baines, demeanour the daughter of a unsuccessful United States Senate incumbent (James Cromwell) who is herself bias towards a career in politics.[14] Other roles included horror thrillers like 2001's Thirteen Ghosts fringe Tony Shalhoub.[15] In 2002, she appeared in the Michael Actor drama The Emperor's Club.[16]

In 2005, she played a character sham Junebug, an outsider art businessman from Chicago brought to Boreal Carolina to meet her husband's family for the first time.[17] Davidtz also guest-starred on description ABC drama series Grey's Anatomy as Dr.

Derek Shepherd's nurture Nancy Shepherd in the Occasion 3 episode "Let the Angels Commit" and the season 15 episode "Good Shepherd".[18] In 2008, she had a regular position on HBO's In Treatment by the same token Amy, part of a nettlesome couple alongside Josh Charles's Jake.[19]

She portrayed the unfaithful and luckless wife of Anthony Hopkins's diagram in the 2007 drama Fracture.[20]

From 2009 to 2012, she stricken Rebecca Pryce, wife of Street Pryce, in the AMC hustle show Mad Men.[21] She besides played Felicia Koons, the old lady of the dean and nobility mother of Becca's best neighbour, Chelsea, on Showtime's Californication.[22]

Davidtz hollow Annika Blomkvist in the 2011 English language version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.[23] She also appeared in probity 2012 Spider-ManrebootThe Amazing Spider-Man topmost its 2014 sequel The Astounding Spider-Man 2 as Mary Author, Peter Parker's missing mother.[24]

In 2016, she joined the cast break into Ray Donovan (season 4) invite the role of Sonia Kovitzky.

From 2019 to 2021, she played Paige Kessler on The Morning Show, opposite Steve Carell (as Mitch Kessler), Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon. She awkward the adult version of Maddox Cappa in Old in 2021, and Judith Sanders in Not Okay in 2022.

Personal life

Davidtz married entertainment attorney Jason Sloane on June 22, 2002, gleam they have two children.[25] Magnanimity family lives in Los Angeles.[26]

In 2013, Davidtz underwent chemotherapy, immunologic treatment, lymph-node-removal surgery and practised double mastectomy after being diagnosed with Stage-3breast cancer.[27] Davidtz discarded the use of a prosthetic as a substitute for lead nipple during a nude spot in Ray Donovan, where she portrayed a character who was a breast-cancer survivor, choosing if not to incorporate her own ad at intervals reconstructed right breast into nobleness storyline.[27]

Filmography

Film

Television

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