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Embeth Davidtz

Embeth Davidtz

Actor · Born 1965-08-11 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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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 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 pla…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) — Mary Parker
  2. Schindler's List (1993) — Helen Hirsch
  3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) — Mary Parker
  4. Grey's Anatomy (2005) — Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
  5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) — Annika Blomkvist Giannini
  6. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) — Natasha
  7. Old (2021) — Adult Maddox
  8. Matilda (1996) — Miss Honey
  9. Fracture (2007) — Jennifer Crawford
  10. Bicentennial Man (1999) — Little Miss / Portia
  11. Army of Darkness (1992) — Sheila
  12. Thir13en Ghosts (2001) — Kalina
  13. Love, Victor (2020) — Mrs. Campbell
  14. Fallen (1998) — Gretta Milano
  15. Europa Report (2013) — Dr. Samantha Unger
  16. Mad Men (2007) — Rebecca Pryce
  17. Retribution (2023) — Heather Turner
  18. Californication (2007) — Felicia Koons
  19. Paranoia (2013) — Judith Bolton
  20. The Morning Show (2019) — Paige Jacobs
  21. The Hole (2001) — Dr. Philippa Horwood
  22. Ray Donovan (2013) — Sonia Kovitzky
  23. Murder in the First (1995) — Mary McCasslin
  24. Not Okay (2022) — Judith
  25. The Emperor's Club (2002) — Elizabeth
  26. Mansfield Park (1999) — Mary Crawford
  27. Junebug (2005) — Madeleine
  28. Tales of the Walking Dead (2022) — Amanda
  29. In Treatment (2008) — Amy
  30. The Gingerbread Man (1998) — Mallory Doss
  31. Scrubs (2001) — Maddie
  32. Winged Creatures (2009) — Lydia Jaspersen
  33. Shackleton (2002) — Rosalind Chetwynd
  34. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2025) — Nicola Fuller
  35. The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2015) — Natasha Lytess
  36. 3 Backyards (2010) — The Actress
  37. Mutator (1989) — Jennifer
  38. Feast of July (1995) — Bella Ford
  39. Simon Magus (1999) — Leah
  40. Deadly Matrimony (1992) — Dianne Masters

Directed

  1. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (2025) — Director