Biography
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...
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Complete Filmography

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025
as Nicola Fuller
Growing up in the midst of the Zimbabwean War for independence, 8-year-old Bobo internalizes both sides of the struggle. Conflicted by her love for pe...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
2025
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Growing up in the midst of the Zimbabwean War for independence, 8-year-old Bobo internalizes both sides of the struggle. Conflicted by her love for pe...

Retribution
2023
as Heather Turner
When a mysterious caller plants a bomb under his car seat, a bank executive begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of...

Not Okay
2022
as Judith
An ambitious young woman, desperate for followers and fame, fakes a trip to Paris to up her social media presence. When a terrifying incident takes pl...

Old
2021
as Adult Maddox
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing th...

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
as Self
Perhaps Steven Spielberg's best movie! The amazing story of Oskar Schindler, who saved more than 3500 Jews from death during World War II. He bribed t...

Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
as Self
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2
2014
as Mary Parker
For Peter Parker, life is busy. Between taking out the bad guys as Spider-Man and spending time with the person he loves, Gwen Stacy, high school grad...

Paranoia
2013
as Judith Bolton
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price—he must spy on his boss's old ment...

Europa Report
2013
as Dr. Samantha Unger
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Miracle Rising: South Africa
2013
as Self
MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in Apr...

The Amazing Spider-Man
2012
as Mary Parker
Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenager...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Annika Blomkvist Giannini
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...

3 Backyards
2010
as The Actress
An executive, a housewife and a youngster spend a day in their Long Island suburban town during the course of one curious autumn day afternoon.

Winged Creatures
2009
as Lydia Jaspersen
A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horre...

Fracture
2007
as Jennifer Crawford
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put h...

Junebug
2005
as Madeleine
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop t...
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
2005
as Herself
A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'.
My Movie About Making 'Matilda' by Mara Wilson
2005
as Self
A compilation of handheld camera footage, captured in 1995 by Mara Wilson during the filming of 'Matilda', interspersed by clips of an interview with ...
Matilda's Movie Magic: The Making of 'Matilda'
2005
Thanks
A look behind the scenes of the filming and special effects of the 1996 film 'Matilda'.

The Emperor's Club
2002
as Elizabeth
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new stud...

Thir13en Ghosts
2001
as Kalina Oretzia
Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nann...

The Hole
2001
as Dr. Philippa Horwood
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb...

Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
as Natasha
Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her various imperfections. As a New Year's r...

Bicentennial Man
1999
as Little Miss / Portia
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ...

Mansfield Park
1999
as Mary Crawford
Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a...

Last Rites
1999
as Dr. Lauren Riggs
A man is executed in the electric chair for having killed several women, but due to lightning striking a transformer at the moment of execution, he su...

Simon Magus
1999
as Leah
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops. When Dovid ...

The Gingerbread Man
1998
as Mallory Doss
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.

Fallen
1998
as Gretta Milano
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are v...

The Garden of Redemption
1997
as Adriana
A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operati...

Matilda
1996
as Miss Honey
Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia misunderstand her because they think she is...

Feast of July
1995
as Bella Ford
After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.

Murder in the First
1995
as Mary McCasslin
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

Schindler's List
1993
as Helen Hirsch
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during ...

Deadly Matrimony
1992
as Dianne Masters
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her vici...

Army of Darkness
1992
as Sheila
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty ...

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Katherine Palliko
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...
Nag van die 19de
1991
as Tessa van Dyk
Tessa walks through the small fishing community in her wedding dress every year on the night of the nineteenth, since she was raped on the eve of her ...

Sweet Murder
1990
A girl is having trouble making the rent, so she advertises for a female roommate. A seemingly sweet and shy girl named Laurie moves in, and proves to...

A Private Life
1989
as Older Karen
Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighborhood...

Mutator
1989
as Jennifer
A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it.