Willem Dafoe is a good-natured Midwesterner who ... under his belt when he signed onto Walter Hill’s rock opera Streets of Fire, but none were as perfect as Raven, the leather-clad baddie.

William "Willem" Dafoe (born July 22 ... motorcycle gang in The Loveless (and later played a similar role in Streets of Fire), but his first breakthrough film role was as the compassionate ...

Willem Dafoe bristles at the phrase "over the top." To the best of his recollection, he always had this reaction. The actor, 69, who started working professionally in the 1970s, feels it's a lazy ...