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.
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Movies (40)
No nos dejes caer esta noche
2025 · Nicola Fuller, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Contrarreloj
2023 · Heather Turner
Falsa Influencer
2022 · Judith
Viejos
2021 · Adult Maddox
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014 · Self
El sorprendente Hombre Araña 2: La amenaza de Electro
2014 · Mary Parker
Paranoia
2013 · Judith Bolton
Misión Europa
2013 · Dr. Samantha Unger
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013 · Self
El sorprendente Hombre Araña
2012 · Mary Parker
La chica del dragón tatuado
2011 · Annika Blomkvist Giannini
3 Backyards
2010 · The Actress
Tan sólo un instante
2009 · Lydia Jaspersen
Crimen perfecto
2007 · Jennifer Crawford
Junebug
2005 · Madeleine
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
2005 · Self
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
2005 · Self, Thanks
Lección de honor
2002 · Elizabeth
13 fantasmas
2001 · Kalina
The Hole
2001 · Dr. Philippa Horwood
El diario de Bridget Jones
2001 · Natasha
El hombre bicentenario
1999 · Little Miss / Portia
Mansfield Park
1999 · Mary Crawford
Last Rites
1999 · Dr. Lauren Riggs
Simon Magus
1999 · Leah
The Gingerbread Man
1998 · Mallory Doss
Poseídos
1998 · Gretta Milano
The Garden of Redemption
1997 · Adriana
Matilda
1996 · Miss Honey
Feast of July
1995 · Bella Ford
Asesinato En Primer Grado
1995 · Mary McCasslin
La Lista de Schindler
1993 · Helen Hirsch
Deadly Matrimony
1992 · Dianne Masters
El Ejercito De Las Tinieblas
1992 · Sheila
Till Death Us Do Part
1992 · Katherine Palliko
The Night of the 19th
1991 · Tessa van Dyk
Sweet Murder
1990
A Private Life
1989 · Older Karen
Mutator
1989 · Jennifer
TV shows (13)
Tales of the Walking Dead
2022 · Amanda
Love, Victor
2020 · Mrs. Campbell
The Morning Show
2019 · Paige Jacobs
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
2015 · Natasha Lytess
Ray Donovan
2013 · Sonia Kovitzky
En Terapia
2008 · Amy
Californication
2007 · Felicia Koons
Mad Men
2007 · Rebecca Pryce
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Nancy Shepherd (uncredited), Nancy Shepherd
Shackleton
2002 · Rosalind Chetwynd
Scrubs
2001 · Maddie
Citizen Baines
2001 · Ellen Baines Croland
Screen Two
1985 · Older Karen