Embeth Davidtz - wikipedia Embeth Davidtz This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ( March 2013 ) Embeth Davidtz Embeth Jean Davidtz ( 1965 - 08 - 11 ) August 11, 1965 ( age 52 ) Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1989 -- present Spouse ( s ) Jason Sloane ( m. 2002 ) Children Embeth Jean Davidtz ( born August 11, 1965 ) is an American - South African actress. Her screen roles include movies such as Army of Darkness, Schindler 's List, Matilda, Junebug, Mansfield Park, Bicentennial Man, and Fracture, and the television series Californication and Mad Men. Davidtz spent much of her early life in South Africa. Contents 1 Early life 2 Early roles 3 Hollywood career 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 5.1 Film 5.2 Television 6 References 7 External links Early life Davidtz was born in Lafayette, Indiana, while her father was studying chemical engineering at Purdue University. Her parents, John and Jean, later moved to Trenton, New Jersey, and then back to their native 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. She graduated from The Glen High School in Pretoria in 1983 and studied at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Early roles Davidtz made her professional acting debut at age 21 with CAPAB ( Cape Performing Arts Board, now known as Artscape ) in Cape Town, playing Juliet in a stage production of Romeo and Juliet, at the Maynardville Open - Air Theatre. Performing in English and Afrikaans, the bilingual actress also starred in other local plays, including Stille Nag ( Silent Night ) and A Chain of Voices, both earning her nominations for the South African equivalent of the Tony Award. Her film debut came in 1988 with a small role in South African - filmed American horror Mutator. Shortly after, she won a bigger part in South African short telemovie A Private Life, as the daughter of an interracial couple. Davidtz won a DALRO Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1990 play Houd - den - bek. For the same play, she was nominated in 1991 for the Esther Roos Award for Best Actress in a Supporting role in Afrikaans film. Steven Spielberg noticed her performance in the 1992 South African film, Nag van die Negentiende and offered her the role in Schindler 's List. Hollywood career Davidtz moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and quickly landed a role in her first American film, Sam Raimi 's Evil Dead sequel Army of Darkness. Soon after, she appeared in two NBC projects, the made - for - television film Till Death Do Us Part and the miniseries Deadly Matrimony. She was also seen in Laura Ziskin 's short film Oh, What A Day, opposite Viggo Mortensen. Davidtz next had a high - profile central role in the fact - based film Murder in the First ( 1995 ), followed by the Merchant Ivory production Feast of July ( also 1995 ). In Matilda ( 1996 ), a feature based on Roald Dahl 's children 's fantasy, she played the role of Miss Honey, the grade - one teacher of the title character. In 1998, Davidtz played a theologian helping Denzel Washington crack a supernatural wave of crimes in the mystery drama Fallen and a femme fatale linked to Kenneth Branagh in Robert Altman 's take on a previously unused John Grisham manuscript, The Gingerbread Man. The following year, Davidtz portrayed a 19th - century woman of the world in Patricia Rozema 's reworking of the Jane Austen comedy Mansfield Park and played a dual role opposite Robin Williams in the futuristic fable Bicentennial Man. A supporting role in the film adaptation of Bridget Jones ' Diary ( 2001 ) saw Davidtz play Natasha, a colleague and one of the love interests of Mark Darcy ( Colin Firth ). That year, she began her run on the CBS drama, Citizen Baines, playing the daughter of a defeated United States Senate incumbent ( James Cromwell ) who is herself leaning towards a career in politics. Other roles included horror thrillers like 2001 's Thir13en Ghosts. In 2002, she appeared in the Michael Hoffman drama, The Emperor 's Club, which co-starred Kevin Kline and Emile Hirsch. In Junebug ( 2005 ), Davidtz played an outsider art dealer from Chicago brought to North Carolina by her husband ( Alessandro Nivola ) to meet his family for the first time. Davidtz has also guest - starred on the hit ABC drama series Grey 's Anatomy as Dr. Derek Shepherd 's sister Nancy in the Season 3 episode `` Let the Angels Commit ''. In 2008, she had a regular role on HBO 's In Treatment as Amy, part of a fractious couple alongside Josh Charles 's Jake. She portrayed the unfaithful and unfortunate wife of Anthony Hopkins 's character in the 2007 drama Fracture. From 2009 to 2012, she played Rebecca Pryce, wife of Lane Pryce in the hit AMC television show Mad Men. She also played Felicia Koons, the wife of the dean and the mother of Becca 's best friend, Chelsea, on Showtime 's Californication. Davidtz played Annika Blomkvist in David Fincher 's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. She also appeared in Marc Webb 's Spider - Man reboot The Amazing Spider - Man as Peter Parker 's mother Mary, who vanished under mysterious circumstances along with Peter 's father Richard. Personal life Davidtz married entertainment attorney Jason Sloane on June 22, 2002, and has two children, Charlotte Emily ( born 2002 ) and Asher Dylan Sloane ( born in 2005 ). Embeth also has a younger sister who is a successful psychologist at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In an interview regarding her current guest appearances on Ray Donovan in which she portrays a breast - cancer survivor, Davidtz revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, which had caused her to stop working and for which she underwent a mastectomy. The role was Davidtz 's first after undergoing treatment, and when informed that it required nudity, Davidtz worked with producer David Hollander to incorporate her partially - reconstructed right breast into the story, turning down the use of a prosthetic as a substitute for her right nipple that was due to be restored through surgery. `` Somebody might not believe it if an actress pretended to have their nipple gone and said, ' Look, I 'm still sexual and pretty. ' But when it 's real, I hope it makes someone feel beautiful. I still feel beautiful, '' said Davidtz regarding the message she wished to convey by taking the role. Filmography Film Year Title Role Notes 1992 Army of Darkness Sheila Schindler 's List Helen Hirsch 1995 Murder in the First Mary McCasslin 1995 Feast of July Bella Ford Matilda Miss Honey 1998 Fallen Gretta Milano Gingerbread Man, The The Gingerbread Man Mallory Doss 1999 Simon Magus Leah Mansfield Park Mary Crawford Bicentennial Man `` Little Miss '' Amanda Martin / Portia Charney 2001 Bridget Jones 's Diary Natasha Hole, The The Hole Dr. Philippa Horwood Thir13en Ghosts Kalina Oretzia 2002 Emperor 's Club, The The Emperor 's Club Elizabeth 2005 Junebug Madeleine Johnsten 2007 Fracture Jennifer Crawford 2009 Fragments Joan Laraby 3 Backyards The Actress 2011 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Annika Giannini 2012 The Amazing Spider - Man Mary Parker 2013 Paranoia Dr. Judith Bolton Europa Report Dr. Samantha Unger Miracle Rising : South Africa Herself 2014 The Amazing Spider - Man 2 Mary Parker Television Year Title Role Notes Screen Two Older Karen Episode : `` A Private Life '' 1992 Till Death Us Do Part Katherine Palliko TV movie Deadly Matrimony Dianne Masters TV movie Garden of Redemption, The The Garden of Redemption Adriana TV movie 1998 Last Rites Dr. Lauren Riggs TV movie 2001 Citizen Baines Ellen Baines Croland 7 episodes 2002 Shackleton Rosalind Chetwynd TV movie Scrubs Maddie Episode : `` My Tormented Mentor '' 2006 Grey 's Anatomy Nancy Shepherd Episode : `` Let the Angels Commit '' 2008 In Treatment Amy 8 episodes 2009 Californication Felicia Koons 10 episodes 2009 -- 2012 Mad Men Rebecca Pryce 8 episodes 2015 The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe Natasha Lytess TV Miniseries 2016 Ray Donovan Sonia Kovitzky 7 episodes References ^ Jump up to : `` Cinema : The star of Davidtz ''. The Independent. Archived from the original on 2008 - 12 - 29. Jump up ^ Schaeffer, Stephen ( 1998 - 03 - 03 ). `` Movies ; Actress Davidtz leaves out sweetness in ` Gingerbread Man ' ''. Boston Herald. Retrieved 2011 - 01 - 11. ^ Jump up to : `` Embeth Davidtz Biography And Images ''. Oregon Herald. Archived from the original on January 7, 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Mutator ( 1989 ) : Overview ''. Tcm.com. Retrieved 17 May 2015. Jump up ^ `` Houd - den - Bek - ESAT ''. Esat.sun.ac.za. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Embeth Davidtz - ESAT ''. Esat.sun.ac.za. Retrieved 2016 - 07 - 28. Jump up ^ Prouty ( 1994 ). Variety TV REV 1991 - 92 17. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 17 May 2015. Jump up ^ Mad Men cast Archived 2010 - 03 - 13 at the Wayback Machine. AMC TV Jump up ^ `` Embeth Davidtz - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile ''. www.rottentomatoes.com. Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved 2009 - 04 - 25. ^ Jump up to : Fretts, Bruce ( August 1, 2016 ). `` Ray Donovan 's Embeth Davidtz Opens Up About Fighting Breast Cancer and Her Complicated Nude Scene ''. Vulture.com. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2016. External links Embeth Davidtz on IMDb VIAF : 85561477 LCCN : no97013527 ISNI : 0000 0000 7823 8781 GND : 129297216 SUDOC : 074241826 BNF : cb14029621x ( data ) BNE : XX1289782 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Embeth_Davidtz&oldid=803644277 '' Categories : American film actresses South African film actresses American television actresses Rhodes University alumni Actresses from New Jersey Actors from Trenton, New Jersey Afrikaner people American emigrants to South Africa American people of Afrikaner descent American people of Dutch descent American people of English descent American people of French descent 1965 births Living people Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links BLP articles lacking sources from March 2013 All BLP articles lacking sources Articles with hCards No local image but image on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia Afrikaans Asturianu Български Čeština Deutsch Español Esperanto فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano עברית Lëtzebuergesch Nederlands 日本 語 Polski Português Русский Suomi Svenska Türkçe Edit links This page was last edited on 3 October 2017, at 19 : 30. 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Question: who played miss honey in the film matilda
Answer: Embeth Jean Davidtz