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James Franco

James Franco

Birthday: 1978-04-19 | Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, USA

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s. Franco landed a lead part on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks and later achieved recognition for playing the titular character in the TV biopic James Dean (2001), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe Award. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. Franco has appeared in an eclectic range of projects since the 2000s. Ranging from period to contemporary pieces, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicized indie films, as well as fantasy movies to biopics and soap operas. Other notable films include Pineapple Express, a stoner comedy that earned him his second Golden Globes nomination, the Harvey Milk-biopic Milk (both 2008) as well as Danny Boyle's 2010 movie 127 Hours, about real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston's struggle to free his hand from a boulder. His performance in 127 Hours earned him nominations for many high-profile awards, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and SAG Awards (None of which he won) Franco has hosted the skit comedy Saturday Night Live twice as well as the 83rd Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway. He volunteers for the Art of Elysium charity and is in a relationship with actress Ahna O'Reilly. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Franco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
Arctic Dogs

as    Lemmy (voice)

2019
Pretenders

as    Maxwell

2019
Don't Come Back from the Moon

as    Roman Smalley

2019
Zeroville

as    Vikar

2018
2018
Kin

as    Taylor Balik

2018
Future World

as    Warlord

2017
The Vault

as    Ed Mass

2017
The Disaster Artist

as    Tommy Wiseau

2017
The Deuce

as    Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino

2016
Sausage Party

as    Druggie (voice)

2016
11.22.63

as    Jake Epping

2016
11.22.63

as    Jake Epping

2016
King Cobra

as    Joe Kerekes

2016
Why Him?

as    Laird Mayhew

2016
Burn Country

as    Lindsay

2016
In Dubious Battle

as    Mac McLeod

2016
Goat

as    Mitch

2016
Yosemite

as    Phil

2016
The Adderall Diaries

as    Stephen Elliott

2016
The Little Prince

as    The Fox (voice)

2015
True Story

as    Christian Longo

2015
Queen of the Desert

as    Henry Cadogan

2015
I Am Michael

as    Michael Glatze

2015
Call Me Lucky

as    Self

2015
Every Thing Will Be Fine

as    Tomas Eldan