Embeth Davidtz

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1965-08-11 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Embeth Davidtz

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, Indian...

Acting

1993

Schindler's List

as Helen Hirsch

2001

The Hole

as Dr. Philippa Horwood

2005

Junebug

as Madeleine

2001

1992

1999

Bicentennial Man

as Little Miss / Portia

1999

Mansfield Park

as Mary Crawford

1996

Matilda

as Miss Honey

2007

Fracture

as Jennifer Crawford

2022

Not Okay

as Judith

1995

Murder in the First

as Mary McCasslin

1998

Fallen

as Gretta Milano

1998

The Gingerbread Man

as Mallory Doss

2001

Thir13en Ghosts

as Kalina Oretzia

1989

Mutator

as Jennifer

2009

Winged Creatures

as Lydia Jaspersen

2002

The Emperor's Club

as Elizabeth

2010

3 Backyards

as The Actress

2023

Retribution

as Heather Turner

2013

Paranoia

as Judith Bolton

2013

Europa Report

as Dr. Samantha Unger

1989

A Private Life

as Older Karen

2011

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

as Annika Blomkvist Giannini

2012

2014

1995

Feast of July

as Bella Ford

1992

Deadly Matrimony

as Dianne Masters

1999

Last Rites

as Dr. Lauren Riggs

1992

Till Death Us Do Part

as Katherine Palliko

1999

2021

Old

as Adult Maddox

1991

Nag van die 19de

as Tessa van Dyk

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