James Franco
Acting
Born 1978-04-19
Palo Alto, California, USA
222 credits
Golden Globe Awards 1
Golden Shell 1
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1
Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 nominated
- 2011 Best Actor Nominated 127 Hours
Golden Globe Awards 1 won
- 2002 Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film Won James Dean
Golden Shell 1 won
- — Golden Shell Won
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
- — star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won
Indiana Film Journalists Association Award for Best Actor 1 won
- 2010 Best Actor Won
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James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for appearing in films such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He frequently collaborates with fellow actor Seth Rogen, including in Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Franco's first prominent acting role was on television. He starred as Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco also had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).
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Filmography
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Acting
59 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Spider-Man
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Show with David Letterman
The X-Files
Saturday Night Live
Spider-Man 3
Conan
The Colbert Report
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hot Ones
30 Rock
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Spider-Man 2
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Mindy Project
Profiler
Angie Tribeca
Alien: Covenant
Pacific Blue
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Deuce
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Tony Danza Show
Freaks and Geeks
11.22.63
127 Hours
The Holiday
Eat Pray Love
Sausage Party
The Interview
Knocked Up
This Is the End
Date Night
Homefront
Marcians
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Little Prince
Lovelace
Arctic Dogs
Why Him?
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Tristan & Isolde
Pineapple Express
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
The Green Hornet
The Wicker Man
The Frame
Queen of the Desert
Spring Breakers
Your Highness
The Great Raid
Deadbeat
Milk
King Cobra
Third Person
Never Been Kissed
Producing
5 credits
Directing
2 credits
Other credits
1 credit
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