Age: 60
female
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.
Embeth Davidtz
Grace Seymour
for Grace Seymour in Casper (2002)
Suggested by nightmare1398
Grace Sadowsky is a successful teacher who's assigned by her husband, Frank to look as a house for him to realtor it where she goes to an abandoned Victorian house, haunted by Casper who lives alone. Grade synopsized this and takes Casper with her to live with them a foster-like child. Where he meets their teenage daughter, Emily. Meanwhile in town, reports of people have been mysteriously killed as many ghosts believe to be Grim Reaper lurking the town and soon has his desires for Grace as his chosen bride of the dead. Only to reveal it was a ghost copycatting Death named Victor Wold but soon discover he might have a connection to Casper's unfortunate death 30 years prior and how he may be connected with Emily's unhinged boyfriend who's Victor's grandson as they team up to kill Emily. And with the help of Casper's buffon cousin, Spooky, the Sadowskys must face Death and banish him to the spirit dimension before they take Grace, send Casper to hell and continue their murders as grandfather and son.
