James Franco
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).
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CREDITS
PHOTOS
TV Series
The Tony Danza Show
6.1
The Daily Show
6.381
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.543
Freaks and Geeks
8.151
The Early Show
6.25
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.356
Profiler
7.007
The X-Files
8.378
30 Rock
7.457
The Colbert Report
6.886
Saturday Night Live
7
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.834
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
7.5
Deadbeat
6.56
11.22.63
7.765
The Mindy Project
6.211
The Deuce
7.6
Hot Ones
7.434
Angie Tribeca
6.4
Pacific Blue
5.356
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.972
Late Night with Seth Meyers
5.323
Saturday Night Live
7
Honest Trailers
6.609
The Frame
10
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.531
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
7.521
Marcians
0
Conan
7.101
To Serve and Protect
0
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.711
Movies
Spider-Man
7.3
Spider-Man 3
6.441
Spider-Man 2
7.3
Milk
7.239
James Dean
6.793
Pineapple Express
6.639
The Wicker Man
4.314
Knocked Up
6.297
Never Been Kissed
6.163
Camille
6.24
The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure
5.9
In the Valley of Elah
6.781
Tristan & Isolde
6.677
An American Crime
7.314
Annapolis
6.9
Flyboys
6.546
Sonny
5.05
City by the Sea
5.782
The Dead Girl
6.017
Date Night
6.103
The Great Raid
6.544
Good Time Max
5.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
7.335
Eat Pray Love
6.2
127 Hours
7.084
The Ape
4.1
Your Highness
5.332
Whatever It Takes
5.773
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
7.5
Howl
6.5
Shadows & Lies
4.194
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
0
Love and Distrust
3.783
Oz the Great and Powerful
5.925
The Iceman
6.561
The Company
5.197
The Broken Tower
4.955
Mean People Suck
6.8
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
4
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
7.086
About Cherry
4.633
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
6.8
Lovelace
6.023
Mother Ghost
6.4
Nights in Rodanthe
6.264
Spring Breakers
5.244
The Letter
4.6
This Is the End
6.231
Child of God
4.871
As I Lay Dying
5.235
Interior. Leather Bar.
5.364
Maladies
5.333
Palo Alto
6.1
Third Person
5.89
Homefront
6.945
Erased James Franco
5.5
The Color of Time
3.961
Sal
3.625
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
4.5
Sausage Party
5.747
Hey Joe
6.286
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
6.803
True Story
6.255
Every Thing Will Be Fine
5.426
The Interview
6.186
Veronica Mars
6.631
Good People
5.496
Alien: Covenant
6.157
The Adderall Diaries
5.325
Alina of Cuba: La Hija Rebelde
0
The Sound and the Fury
5
Saturday Night
8
Queen of the Desert
5.88
Dumpster Diving
3
Zeroville
5.1
Memoria
5.119
Yosemite
4.7
I Am Michael
5.5
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
7.4
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
7.2
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?
6.387
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
4.857
Future Relic 02
0
The Night Before
6.098
Call Me Lucky
6.975
The Disaster Artist
7.107
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?
5.3
Goat
5.4
The Caged Pillows
5
Obituaries
0
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
3.3
The Green Hornet
5.591
The Little Prince
7.608
At Any Cost
5
Actors Anonymous
4.3
Richard Peter Johnson
2.7
Future World
4.342
Deuces Wild
5.624
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
5
Interview
6.4
Mississippi Requiem
1
Kill the Czar
0
Arctic Dogs
6
Masculinity & Me
0
The Vault
4.892
Black Dog, Red Dog
7.5
The Institute
4.2
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
1
Some Body
5
The Labyrinth
7.6
A Walk in Winter
0
Squali
0
The Mad Whale
5.6
Killing Animals
10
Kin
6.123
A Fuller Life
6.6
Pretenders
5.2
High School Lover
5.903
The Holiday
7.093
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
5.684
Here Comes the Night Time
8
Blood Surf
0
Mademoiselle C
5.8
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
5.625
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
5.2
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
Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper
6.571
Seth Rogen & James Franco Bound 3
0
Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott
0