Embeth Davidtz
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight as Nicola Fuller
- 2023 · Retribution as Heather Turner
- 2022 · Tales of the Walking Dead as Amanda
- 2022 · Not Okay as Judith
- 2021 · Old as Adult Maddox
- 2020 · Love, Victor as Mrs. Campbell
- 2019 · The Morning Show as Paige Jacobs
- 2015 · The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe as Natasha Lytess
- 2014 · Nelson Mandela Redrawn as Self
- 2014 · The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Mary Parker
- 2013 · Paranoia as Judith Bolton
- 2013 · Ray Donovan as Sonia Kovitzky
- 2013 · Europa Report as Dr. Samantha Unger
- 2013 · Miracle Rising: South Africa as Self
- 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 · In Treatment as Amy
- 2007 · Californication as Felicia Koons
- 2007 · Mad Men as Rebecca Pryce
- 2007 · Fracture as Jennifer Crawford
- 2005 · Junebug as Madeleine
- 2005 · Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda' as Herself
- 2005 · My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson as Self
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Nancy Shepherd
- 2002 · The Emperor's Club as Elizabeth
- 2002 · Shackleton as Rosalind Chetwynd
- 2001 · Thir13en Ghosts as Kalina Oretzia
- 2001 · Scrubs as Maddie
- 2001 · Citizen Baines as Ellen Baines Croland
- 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
- Future · The Venery of Samantha Bird as Carol Minot
- 1992 · Till Death Us Do Part as Katherine Palliko
- 1991 · Nag van die 19de as Tessa van Dyk
- 1990 · Sweet Murder as
- 1989 · A Private Life as Older Karen
- 1989 · Mutator as Jennifer