
James Franco
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Biography
James Edward Franco 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).
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

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

The Little Prince

Sausage Party

Milk

To Serve and Protect

Kin

Spider-Man

Palo Alto

Eat Pray Love

Spider-Man 2

City by the Sea

Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut

Spider-Man 3

Freaks and Geeks

The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure

Your Highness

Pineapple Express

Comedy Central Roast of James Franco

The Great Raid

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Why Him?

Homefront

This Is the End

127 Hours

Future World

Spring Breakers

The Deuce

The Labyrinth

11.22.63

The Interview

Oz the Great and Powerful

Good People

James Dean

Flyboys

Sonny
Production Credits
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