Meet Willem Dafoe’s son: Jack Dafoe is an environmental activist who stays out of the public eye – and his mum, Elizabeth LeCompte, is the director of renowned theatre company The Wooster Group
Willem and Elizabeth were together for 27 years and raised their son together; Jack prefers to shun the limelight to focus on his activism, his wife and his young children
So what do we know about Willem Dafoe’s son Jack Dafoe?
His mum’s a famous theatre director
Jack Dafoe’s mother, Elizabeth LeCompte, is a renowned director of experimental theatre and dance. Willem Dafoe started dating LeCompte in 1977 after joining The Performance Group, an experimental theatre troupe. Their son Jack was born in 1982. “She’s the mother of my son, but we never married because to her marriage represented ownership, and I respected that,” Dafoe shared in a recent interview with The Guardian.
LeCompte is a founding member of the performing arts company The Wooster Group and currently serves as its director. She has also taught at prestigious institutions like the Yale School of Drama, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University.