Willem Dafoe Gives Sweet Shout Out to His Wife of Nearly 18 Years as He Receives Hollywood Walk of Fame Star

Willem Dafoe said at his Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony Monday that wife Giada Colagrande "teaches me gratitude and reminds me not to spit on my luck"

Willem Dafoe is thanking his wife Giada Colagrande for her support over the years.

On Monday, the Hollywood Walk of Fame kicked off its first star ceremony of the year as it awarded Dafoe, 68, with a star on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard.

As the Spider-Man actor spoke to a crowd gathered at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine St. in Los Angeles, he shouted out Colagrande, a filmmaker and musician whom he has been married to since 2005.

“Finally, thank you to my wife Giada Colagrande, who teaches me gratitude and reminds me not to spit on my luck,” he shared at the end of his speech.

During the ceremony — which was attended by Dafoe's famous friends Patricia Arquette, Pedro Pascal, Mark Ruffalo, Camila Morrone and Guillermo Del Toro, among others — the Poor Things actor also remarked on his gratitude to have achieved such a long-lasting and successful acting career.

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“I just want to say it’s wonderful to be part of this community of artists and entertainers, people that — by sharing their experience, imagining others’ perspectives, telling stories, and musing on what is, was, and most importantly could be," he said. "They make us feel closer to each other and connect us, creating an important dialogue particularly needed in these detached, technology-driven and divisive times. So I’m glad to be with people like this and hopefully we’re making this a better world somehow."

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Dafoe and Colagrande met "on the street in Rome in 2004," as Dafoe told The Guardian in 2009. “I knew of her because I'd seen her films and we had some mutual friends," he said at the time.

The pair married on March 25, 2005, per Italian Vogue. Dafoe described their wedding ceremony to The Guardian as "very impulsive and romantic."

"We were having lunch and I said: ‘Do you want to get married tomorrow?’ " the four-time Academy Award nominee said at the time. “I called up City Hall and they said: ‘If you get here in the next couple of hours, you can register and then you can get married tomorrow.’ “

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“So we ran down there,” he continued. “We married the next day with just two witnesses, our best friends: my manager and her editor.”

The pair do not have any children; Dafoe shares his adult son Jack with his former partner Elizabeth LeCompte.

Dafoe and Colagrande most recently worked together on the 2016 film Padre, which she directed, wrote and starred in alongside Dafoe. Dafoe himself most recently appeared alongside Emma Stone in Poor Things, which won the 2024 Golden Globe best picture in a musical or comedy on Sunday.

He is the 2,768th entertainment industry figure to receive a star on the Walk of Fame, per a press release.

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