Embeth Davidtz

DOB: 1965-08-11

DOD: -

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.

Starred In

1993
Movie

Schindler's List

2001
Movie

The Hole

2005
Movie

Junebug

1992
Movie

Army of Darkness

1999
Movie

Bicentennial Man

1999
Movie

Mansfield Park

1996
Movie

Matilda

2007
Movie

Fracture

2022
Movie

Not Okay

1998
Movie

Fallen

2001
Movie

Thir13en Ghosts

1989
Movie

Mutator

2009
Movie

Winged Creatures

2002
Movie

The Emperor's Club

2010
Movie

3 Backyards

2023
Movie

Retribution

2013
Movie

Paranoia

2013
Movie

Europa Report

1990
Movie

Sweet Murder

1989
Movie

A Private Life

1995
Movie

Feast of July

1992
Movie

Deadly Matrimony

1999
Movie

Last Rites

1999
Movie

Simon Magus

2021
Movie

Old

1991
Movie

Nag van die 19de

2001
Tv

Scrubs

2002
Tv

Shackleton

2020
Tv

Love, Victor

2013
Tv

Ray Donovan

2007
Tv

Mad Men

2008
Tv

In Treatment