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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Films (40)
No nos dejes caer esta noche
2025 · Nicola Fuller, Director, Screenplay, Producer
Justice vengeresse
2023 · Heather Turner
Falsa Influencer
2022 · Judith
Anormal
2021 · Adult Maddox
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014 · Self
The Amazing Spider-Man : Le Destin d'un héros
2014 · Mary Parker
Paranoïa
2013 · Judith Bolton
Misión Europa
2013 · Dr. Samantha Unger
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013 · Self
L'extraordinaire Spider-Man
2012 · Mary Parker
Millénium : Les Hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes
2011 · Annika Blomkvist Giannini
3 Backyards
2010 · The Actress
Fragments
2009 · Lydia Jaspersen
La Faille
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
Le Club des empereurs
2002 · Elizabeth
13 fantômes
2001 · Kalina
Le refuge
2001 · Dr. Philippa Horwood
Le Journal de Bridget Jones
2001 · Natasha
L'Homme Bicentenaire
1999 · Little Miss / Portia
Lettres de Mansfield Park
1999 · Mary Crawford
Last Rites
1999 · Dr. Lauren Riggs
Simon Magus
1999 · Leah
The Gingerbread Man
1998 · Mallory Doss
Le Témoin du mal
1998 · Gretta Milano
The Garden of Redemption
1997 · Adriana
Matilda
1996 · Miss Honey
Feast of July
1995 · Bella Ford
Meurtre à Alcatraz
1995 · Mary McCasslin
La Liste de Schindler
1993 · Helen Hirsch
Jack Reed: La loi de Chicago/L'affaire Diane Masters
1992 · Dianne Masters
Evil dead 3 : L'armée des ténèbres
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
Séries (13)
Tales of the Walking Dead
2022 · Amanda
Avec amour, Victor
2020 · Mrs. Campbell
La matinale
2019 · Paige Jacobs
La vie secrète de Marilyn Monroe
2015 · Natasha Lytess
Ray Donovan
2013 · Sonia Kovitzky
En analyse
2008 · Amy
Californication
2007 · Felicia Koons
Mad Men
2007 · Rebecca Pryce
Dre Grey, leçons d'anatomie
2005 · Nancy Shepherd (uncredited), Nancy Shepherd
Shackleton, aventurier de l'Antarctique
2002 · Rosalind Chetwynd
Scrubs
2001 · Maddie
Citizen Baines
2001 · Ellen Baines Croland
Screen Two
1985 · Older Karen