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.
Acting
Movie
The Amazing Spider-Man
as Mary Parker
2012
Movie
Schindler's List
as Helen Hirsch
1993
Movie
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
as Mary Parker
2014
TV
Grey's Anatomy
as Nancy Shepherd (uncredited)
2005
TV
Grey's Anatomy
as Nancy Shepherd
2005
Movie
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
2011
Movie
Bridget Jones's Diary
as Natasha
2001
Movie
Old
as Adult Maddox
2021
Movie
Matilda
as Miss Honey
1996
Movie
Fracture
as Jennifer Crawford
2007
Movie
Bicentennial Man
as Little Miss / Portia
1999
Movie
Army of Darkness
as Sheila
1992
Movie
Thir13en Ghosts
as Kalina
2001
TV
Love, Victor
as Mrs. Campbell
2020
Movie
Fallen
as Gretta Milano
1998
Movie
Europa Report
as Dr. Samantha Unger
2013
TV
Mad Men
as Rebecca Pryce
2007
Movie
Retribution
as Heather Turner
2023
TV
Californication
as Felicia Koons
2007
Movie
Paranoia
as Judith Bolton
2013
TV
The Morning Show
as Paige Jacobs
2019
Movie
The Hole
as Dr. Philippa Horwood
2001
TV
Ray Donovan
as Sonia Kovitzky
2013
Movie
Murder in the First
as Mary McCasslin
1995
