

Willem has one son with LeCompte, named Jack. Dafoe is nominated for Best Supporting Actor category for his role in “Shadow of the Vampire.” LeCompte’s work as an artist and academic has won her many awards, including the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater, the MacArthur Fellowship, the Chevalier des Artes et Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, a United States Artists Fellowship, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Award, among others.Īctor Willem Dafoe poses with his son Jack as they arrive at the Shrine Auditorium during the 73rd Academy Awards in Los Angeles, California, 25 March, 2001. She has given lectures and taught at American University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut College, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, the O’Neill Center, Smith College, the University of London, and the Yale School of Drama. She received her BA in Fine Arts from Skidmore. LeCompte was born and raised in New Jersey. In 1982, Dafoe and LeCompte founded The Performance Group, another NYC-based experimental group.

From 1977 to 2004, he was married to Elizabeth LeCompte, a founding member of The Wooster Group, an experimental company based in New York City. highlight Elizabeth LeCompte on her latest theatrical reinvention, ‘The Town Hall Affair’: /Vosn6LgBDfĬolagrande is Dafoe’s second wife.
