James Franco
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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Tony Danza Show
6.1
The Daily Show
6.354
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.5
Freaks and Geeks
8.2
The Early Show
5.7
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.411
Profiler
7
The X-Files
8.4
30 Rock
7.448
The Colbert Report
6.855
Saturday Night Live
7
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.853
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
7
Deadbeat
6.56
11.22.63
7.767
The Mindy Project
6.202
The Deuce
7.6
Hot Ones
7.4
Angie Tribeca
6.4
Pacific Blue
5.3
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.7
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.3
Saturday Night Live
7
Honest Trailers
6.5
The Frame
10
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
7.491
Marcians
0
Conan
7.1
To Serve and Protect
0
Movies
Spider-Man
7.311
Spider-Man 2
7.294
Spider-Man 3
6.4
Milk
7.239
James Dean
6.812
Pineapple Express
6.641
The Wicker Man
4.311
Knocked Up
6.294
Never Been Kissed
6.157
Camille
6.2
The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure
5.868
In the Valley of Elah
6.8
Tristan & Isolde
6.7
An American Crime
7.311
Annapolis
6.9
Flyboys
6.547
Sonny
5.05
City by the Sea
5.8
The Dead Girl
6.017
Date Night
6.1
The Great Raid
6.543
Good Time Max
5.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
7.333
Eat Pray Love
6.2
127 Hours
7.1
The Ape
4.1
Your Highness
5.335
Whatever It Takes
5.775
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
7.5
Howl
6.5
Shadows & Lies
4.029
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
0
Love and Distrust
3.783
Oz the Great and Powerful
5.925
The Iceman
6.554
The Company
5.173
The Broken Tower
4.955
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
3.95
Mean People Suck
6.8
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
7.059
About Cherry
4.633
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
6.8
Lovelace
6.023
Mother Ghost
6.4
Nights in Rodanthe
6.3
Spring Breakers
5.2
The Letter
4.483
This Is the End
6.229
Child of God
4.871
As I Lay Dying
5.235
Interior. Leather Bar.
5.364
Maladies
5.333
Palo Alto
6.108
Third Person
5.897
Homefront
6.947
Erased James Franco
5.5
The Color of Time
3.961
Sal
3.625
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
4.5
Sausage Party
5.744
Hey Joe
6.392
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
6.8
True Story
6.254
Every Thing Will Be Fine
5.446
The Interview
6.183
Veronica Mars
6.6
Good People
5.5
Alien: Covenant
6.158
The Adderall Diaries
5.342
Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde
0
The Sound and the Fury
5
Saturday Night
8
Queen of the Desert
5.9
Dumpster Diving
3
Zeroville
5.1
I Am Michael
5.5
Yosemite
4.654
Memoria
5.119
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
7.4
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
7.227
National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
8
Golden State Killer
0
Caput
0
Wild Horses
4.878
Fool's Gold
0
Burn Country
5
Me, You
0
Bunny-Man
0
In Dubious Battle
5.8
Why Him?
6.4
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
4.857
Future Relic 02
0
The Night Before
6.1
Call Me Lucky
7
The Disaster Artist
7.1
Grasshopper
4.667
Blind Spot
6
The Long Home
0
The Car Kid
0
The Razor's Edge
0
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
5.467
King Cobra
5.9
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
5.258
Goat
5.384
The Caged Pillows
5
Obituaries
0
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
3.3
The Green Hornet
5.587
The Little Prince
7.608
At Any Cost
5
Actors Anonymous
4.333
Richard Peter Johnson
2.7
Future World
4.354
Black Dog, Red Dog
7.5
Arctic Dogs
6
Deuces Wild
5.6
Interview
6.4
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
5
Some Body
5
Masculinity & Me
0
The Labyrinth
7.6
A Walk in Winter
0
The Vault
4.9
Kill the Czar
0
Mississippi Requiem
1
The Institute
4.248
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
1
Squali
0
The Mad Whale
5.6
Killing Animals
10
Kin
6.124
A Fuller Life
6.6
Pretenders
5.2
High School Lover
5.903
The Holiday
7.092
Don't Come Back from the Moon
5.55
Blood Heist
10
To Serve and Protect
6.5
Playtime
1
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
6.8
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7.134
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
6
14 Actors Acting
7
What Is Cinema?
6.4
The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco
0
Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show
0
If Tomorrow Comes
1
The Show
5.688
Here Comes the Night Time
8
Blood Surf
0
Mademoiselle C
5.8
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
5
Spider-Mania
5.4
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
7.381
Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
0
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)
0
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
5.188
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
0
Toad
0
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
0
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
0
Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life
0
Prologue: Last Supper
6.667
Seth Rogen & James Franco Bound 3
0