Embeth Davidtz

Known for ActingBorn 1965-08-11 (age 60)Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Love, Victor

Miracle Rising: South Africa

Schindler's List

Grey's Anatomy

Scrubs

Mad Men

The Morning Show

A Private Life

In Treatment

Californication

Ray Donovan

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Simon Magus

Fracture

Bicentennial Man

Shackleton

Army of Darkness

Tales of the Walking Dead

Matilda

The Emperor's Club

Murder in the First

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

Citizen Baines

The Garden of Redemption

Till Death Us Do Part

The Night of the 19th

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

The Amazing Spider-Man

Fallen

Retribution

Bridget Jones's Diary

Mansfield Park

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Junebug

Old

Not Okay

Europa Report

Thir13en Ghosts

Last Rites

The Hole

Winged Creatures

Paranoia

Feast of July

The Gingerbread Man

My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson

Deadly Matrimony

Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'