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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.7354 |
| Birthday | 1965-08-11 |
| Place of Birth | Lafayette, Indiana, USA |
| Also Known As | Embeth Jean Davidtz, امبت دیویتز, |
1993
Schindler's List
8.567/17358
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during...
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Schindler's List
2001
The Hole
6.22/886
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb...
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The Hole
2005
Junebug
6.547/246
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop t...
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Junebug
2001
Bridget Jones's Diary
6.74/5463
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against expectations. As a New Year's resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting b...
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Bridget Jones's Diary
1992
Army of Darkness
7.263/3492
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty...
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Army of Darkness
1999
Bicentennial Man
7.265/3872
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the...
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Bicentennial Man
1999
Mansfield Park
6.694/330
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is compli...
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Mansfield Park
1996
Matilda
7.172/4776
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she...
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Matilda
2007
Fracture
7.261/4284
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put h...
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Fracture
2022
Not Okay
6.3/501
An ambitious young woman, desperate for followers and fame, fakes a trip to Paris to up her social media presence. When a terrifying incident takes pl...
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Not Okay
1995
Murder in the First
7.152/604
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
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Murder in the First
1998
Fallen
6.803/1578
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...
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Fallen
1998
The Gingerbread Man
5.6/175
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
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The Gingerbread Man
2001
Thir13en Ghosts
6.287/2341
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nann...
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Thir13en Ghosts
1989
Mutator
3.544/16
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.
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Mutator
2009
Winged Creatures
5.9/150
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...
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Winged Creatures
2002
The Emperor's Club
7.128/400
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new stud...
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The Emperor's Club
2010
3 Backyards
4.3/17
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.
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3 Backyards
2023
Retribution
6.538/1352
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of...
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Retribution
2013
Paranoia
5.727/907
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price—he must spy on his boss's old ment...
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Paranoia
2013
Europa Report
6.286/1529
A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to...
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Europa Report
2013
Miracle Rising: South Africa
8.5/1
MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in Apr...
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Miracle Rising: South Africa
2005
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
5.5/2
A compilation of handheld camera footage, captured in 1995 by Mara Wilson during the filming of 'Matilda', interspersed by clips of an interview with...
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My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
2005
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
4.5/2
A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'.
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Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
1990
Sweet Murder
4.2/5
A girl is having trouble making the rent, so she advertises for a female roommate. A seemingly sweet and shy girl named Laurie moves in, and proves to...
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Sweet Murder
1989
A Private Life
8/1
Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighborhood...
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A Private Life
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
6.5/14145
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school grad...
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2011
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7.384/7555
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2012
The Amazing Spider-Man
6.732/18415
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenager...
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The Amazing Spider-Man
1995
Feast of July
5.75/12
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
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Feast of July
2014
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
10/1
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers...
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Nelson Mandela Redrawn
1992
Deadly Matrimony
5.625/8
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her vici...
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Deadly Matrimony
2025
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
6.604/24
Eight-year-old Bobo grows up on her family farm in Rhodesia in 1980 during the final days of the Bush War to end British colonial rule. Her eyes see c...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
1999
Last Rites
6.333/6
A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he su...
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Last Rites
1992
Till Death Us Do Part
7/4
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...
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Till Death Us Do Part
1997
The Garden of Redemption
7/1
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operati...
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The Garden of Redemption
1999
Simon Magus
7.417/12
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid...
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Simon Magus
2021
Old
6.3/4842
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing th...
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Old
1991
The Night of the 19th
7/1
Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her...
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The Night of the 19th
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
0/0
Perhaps Steven Spielberg's best movie! The amazing story of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 3500 Jews from death during World War II. He bribed t...
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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
0/0
Revisiting the making of the film through the voices of those involved, including director Steven Spielberg and stars like Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsle...
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