Embeth Davidtz
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 11, 1965 (age 61)
- Place of birth
- Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Credits
- 53
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
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012Movie
Mary Parker
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Helen Hirsch
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Mary Parker
Grey's Anatomy
2005TV
Nancy Shepherd (uncredited), Nancy Shepherd
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011Movie
Annika Blomkvist Giannini
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001Movie
Natasha
Filmography
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025Movie
Nicola Fuller
Retribution
2023Movie
Heather Turner
Tales of the Walking Dead
2022TV
Amanda
Not Okay
2022Movie
Judith
Old
2021Movie
Adult Maddox
Love, Victor
2020TV
Mrs. Campbell
The Morning Show
2019TV
Paige Jacobs
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
2018Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
2015TV
Natasha Lytess
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014Movie
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014Movie
Mary Parker
Paranoia
2013Movie
Judith Bolton
Ray Donovan
2013TV
Sonia Kovitzky
Europa Report
2013Movie
Dr. Samantha Unger
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013Movie
Self
The Amazing Spider-Man
2012Movie
Mary Parker
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011Movie
Annika Blomkvist Giannini
3 Backyards
2010Movie
The Actress
Winged Creatures
2009Movie
Lydia Jaspersen
In Treatment
2008TV
Amy
Californication
2007TV
Felicia Koons
Mad Men
2007TV
Rebecca Pryce
Fracture
2007Movie
Jennifer Crawford
Junebug
2005Movie
Madeleine
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
2005Movie
Self
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
2005Movie
Self
Grey's Anatomy
2005TV
Nancy Shepherd (uncredited), Nancy Shepherd
The Emperor's Club
2002Movie
Elizabeth
Shackleton
2002TV
Rosalind Chetwynd
Thir13en Ghosts
2001Movie
Kalina
Scrubs
2001TV
Maddie
Citizen Baines
2001TV
Ellen Baines Croland
The Hole
2001Movie
Dr. Philippa Horwood
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001Movie
Natasha
Bicentennial Man
1999Movie
Little Miss / Portia
Mansfield Park
1999Movie
Mary Crawford
Last Rites
1999Movie
Dr. Lauren Riggs
Simon Magus
1999Movie
Leah
The Gingerbread Man
1998Movie
Mallory Doss
Fallen
1998Movie
Gretta Milano
The Garden of Redemption
1997Movie
Adriana
Matilda
1996Movie
Miss Honey
Feast of July
1995Movie
Bella Ford
Murder in the First
1995Movie
Mary McCasslin
Schindler's List
1993Movie
Helen Hirsch
Deadly Matrimony
1992Movie
Dianne Masters
Army of Darkness
1992Movie
Sheila
Till Death Us Do Part
1992Movie
Katherine Palliko
The Night of the 19th
1991Movie
Tessa van Dyk
Sweet Murder
1990Movie
A Private Life
1989Movie
Older Karen
Mutator
1989Movie
Jennifer
Screen Two
1985TV
Older Karen