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| 3 | Embeth Jean Davidtz (born August 11, 1965 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an American-South African actress best known as Jennifer Honey in ''Film/{{Matilda}}''. |
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| 5 | !!She appeared in: |
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| 7 | * ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'' (1992) |
| 8 | * ''Film/SchindlersList'' (1993) |
| 9 | * ''Film/MurderInTheFirst'' (1995) |
| 10 | * ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' (1996) |
| 11 | * ''Film/{{Fallen}}'' (1998) |
| 12 | * ''Film/TheGingerbreadMan'' (1998) |
| 13 | * ''Literature/MansfieldPark'' (1999) |
| 14 | * ''Film/BicentennialMan'' (1999) |
| 15 | * ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'' |
| 16 | * ''Film/TheHole'' (2001) |
| 17 | * ''Film/Thir13enGhosts'' (2001) |
| 18 | * ''Film/TheEmperorsClub'' (2002) |
| 19 | * ''Film/{{Shackleton}}'' (2002) |
| 20 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' |
| 21 | * ''Film/{{Junebug}}'' (2005) |
| 22 | * ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' |
| 23 | * ''Film/{{Fracture|2007}}'' |
| 24 | * ''Series/InTreatment'' |
| 25 | * ''Film/{{Fragments}}'' |
| 26 | * ''Series/MadMen'' |
| 27 | * ''Series/{{Californication}}'' |
| 28 | * ''[[Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]]'' (2011) |
| 29 | * ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' (2012) |
| 30 | * ''Film/Paranoia2013'' |
| 31 | * ''Film/EuropaReport'' (2013) |
| 32 | * ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' (2014) |
| 33 | * ''Film/{{Old}}'' (2021) |
| 34 | * ''Series/TalesOfTheWalkingDead'' (2022) |
| 35 | * ''Film/{{Retribution|2023}}'' (2023) |
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| 37 | !!Tropes |
| 38 | * ActingForTwo: In ''Film/BicentennialMan'' she plays both Little Miss and her granddaughter Portia. |
| 39 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 40 | ** In ''Series/RayDonovan'' she owns an art gallery, having played an art dealer in ''{{Film/Junebug}}''. |
| 41 | ** In ''Film/TheHole'' she attempts to reach out to a school girl who seems a bit different from her peers, similar to her role in ''{{Film/Matilda}}''. |
| 42 | * ActorSharedBackground: Her character Madeleine in ''{{Film/Junebug}}'' is an American who was raised in South Africa. It's one of the few roles where Embeth gets to use her natural accent. |
| 43 | * AdvertisedExtra: In ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' films. Presumably she was planned to have a bigger role as the plot moved on, but the franchise was cancelled after the second film. |
| 44 | * ButNotTooForeign: She has Dutch (the origin of her surname), English, and French ancestry. |
| 45 | * CreatorBacklash: She initially hated ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', due to having such a rough time shooting all the fight scenes and the difficult prosthetics - that she almost quit acting. But she has warmed to the film, due to the positive messages she gets from fans. |
| 46 | * DoubleVision: In ''Film/BicentennialMan'', when Andrew meets Portia (played by Davidtz), he mistakes her for Little Miss, who shows up in the same scene (also played by Davidtz, but with ageing prosthetics). As Andrew is looking back and forth between the two women, Little Miss explains that Portia is her [[IdenticalGranddaughter granddaughter]]. Once Andrew realizes that she's Lloyd's daughter, it [[InnocentlyInsensitive explains the rudeness]] for him. |
| 47 | * FakeAmerican: She was born in America but spent her childhood and teen years in South Africa. So she fakes an American accent in a few films - notably ''Film/BicentennialMan'', ''Film/ThirteenGhosts'', ''{{Film/Matilda}}''. |
| 48 | * FakeBrit: Her real voice isn't too different from an RP one, so she only has to change a few pronunciations to pass. Notably in ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'', ''Series/MadMen'', and ''Film/TheHole''. |
| 49 | * FakeNationality: As the Polish Jew Helen Hirsch in ''Film/SchindlersList''. |
| 50 | * MethodActing: Defied. She chose not to meet the real Helen Hirsch until after ''Film/SchindlersList'' had finished filming. |
| 51 | * TheOtherMarty: She replaced another actress right before filming began on ''{{Film/Junebug}}''. Who she replaced is unknown. |
| 52 | * PlayingAgainstType: She usually plays [[Film/{{Matilda}} loving mot]][[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan her figures]] and TheWoobie (Helen Hirsch in ''Film/SchindlersList'' notably). In the film version of ''Film/BridgetJonesDiary'' she plays Natasha - the snobby and pompous RomanticFalseLead. She also plays one of Jordan's harpy-ish friends in ''{{Series/Scrubs}}''. |
| 53 | ** This comes to full circle when she portrays [[GrandeDame Reb]][[TheWoobie ecca]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Pryce]], the snooty and irritating but loving wife of the tragic Lane Pryce in Seasons 3 and 5 of ''Series/MadMen''. |
| 54 | ** In ''Film/TheGingerbreadMan'' she starts out as TheWoobie but is revealed to be a BitchInSheepsClothing. |
| 55 | * RomanceOnTheSet: Met her ex-boyfriend Ben Chaplin on the set of ''Feast of July'' in 1995. |
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