Known For: American – South African actress (born 1965)
Category: Actresses
Occupation: stage actor, film actor, television actor
Country: United States of America
City: Lafayette
Date of Birth: Wednesday, 11 August 1965
Language English
Embeth Jean Davidtz is an American-South African actress and director. She's appeared in movies such as Army of Darkness, Schindler's List, Matilda, Fallen, Mansfield Park, Bicentennial Man, Bridget Jones's Diary, Junebug, Fracture, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Old, and Not Okay, and in the television series In Treatment, Californication, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Ray Donovan, and The Morning Show.
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Davidtz was born 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.
