
James Franco
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Biography
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 his roles 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 is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having appeared in eight films and one television series with him, examples being 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 is also known for his work on television where his first prominent acting role was the character 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 Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco 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).
Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Daily Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The X-Files

The Colbert Report

Honest Trailers

Profiler

SNL Digital Shorts

30 Rock

The Early Show

Deadbeat

The Mindy Project

Veronica Mars

Knocked Up

The Green Hornet

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

The Holiday

The Wicker Man

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Alien: Covenant

The Night Before

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Date Night

An American Crime

Never Been Kissed

Sausage Party

The Little Prince

Milk

Kin

Spider-Man

Palo Alto

City by the Sea

Spider-Man 3

Eat Pray Love

Freaks and Geeks

Spider-Man 2

The Great Raid

Spring Breakers

Pineapple Express

Why Him?

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Your Highness

Homefront

The Interview

The Deuce

Good People

This Is the End

Future World

Oz the Great and Powerful

The Labyrinth

Comedy Central Roast of James Franco

Sonny

11.22.63

James Dean

Flyboys

127 Hours
Production Credits
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