James Franco
Actor

James Franco

19 Movies
1 TV Shows
20 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 20
Birthday April 19, 1978 (48 years old)
Place of Birth Palo Alto, California, USA
Also Known As James Edward 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 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).

Filmography (194)

John Rambo 2027
Bunny-Man 2026
Squali 2025
Largo Winch: The Price of Money 2024
Hey Joe 2024
Zeroville 2019
Arctic Dogs 2019
Pretenders 2019
Don't Come Back from the Moon 2019
Future World 2018
Mississippi Requiem 2018
Kin 2018
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster 2018
Cultureshock 2018
Alien: Covenant 2017
Dumpster Diving 2017
The Disaster Artist 2017
Actors Anonymous 2017
The Vault 2017
The Institute 2017
The Mad Whale 2017
High School Lover 2017
Blood Heist 2017
The Show 2017
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine 2017
The Deuce 2017
Marcians 2017
Sausage Party 2016
The Adderall Diaries 2016
Memoria 2016
Yosemite 2016
Burn Country 2016
In Dubious Battle 2016
Why Him? 2016
King Cobra 2016
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? 2016
Goat 2016
The Caged Pillows 2016
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem 2016
The Labyrinth 2016
Blood Surf 2016
11.22.63 2016
Angie Tribeca 2016
True Story 2015
Every Thing Will Be Fine 2015
The Sound and the Fury 2015
Queen of the Desert 2015
I Am Michael 2015
Wild Horses 2015
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards 2015
The Night Before 2015
Call Me Lucky 2015
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha 2015
The Little Prince 2015
Richard Peter Johnson 2015
Black Dog, Red Dog 2015
A Walk in Winter 2015
Killing Animals 2015
Hot Ones 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter 2015
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special 2014
Child of God 2014
Palo Alto 2014
Third Person 2014
The Interview 2014
Veronica Mars 2014
Good People 2014
National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men 2014
Future Relic 02 2014
Obituaries 2014
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014
Deadbeat 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers 2014
Oz the Great and Powerful 2013
Lovelace 2013
Spring Breakers 2013
This Is the End 2013
As I Lay Dying 2013
Interior. Leather Bar. 2013
Homefront 2013
Sal 2013
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco 2013
A Fuller Life 2013
Playtime 2013
What Is Cinema? 2013
Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show 2013
Here Comes the Night Time 2013
Mademoiselle C 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded 2013
My Journey in Oz 2013
The Frame 2013
The Iceman 2012
The Broken Tower 2012
About Cherry 2012
The Letter 2012
Maladies 2012
The Color of Time 2012
Hart Crane: An Exegesis 2012
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present 2012
The Mindy Project 2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011
Your Highness 2011
Eames: The Architect and the Painter 2011
Caput 2011
The Green Hornet 2011
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10 2011
Two Films, One Legacy 2011
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year 2011
Date Night 2010 Eat Pray Love 2010
127 Hours 2010
Howl 2010
Shadows & Lies 2010
Love and Distrust 2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story 2010
Saturday Night 2010
Masculinity & Me 2010
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock) 2010
Conan 2010
Erased James Franco 2009
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas 2009
The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco 2009
Milk 2008
Pineapple Express 2008
Camille 2008
Good Time Max 2008
Nights in Rodanthe 2008
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis 2008
Spider-Man 3 2007 Knocked Up 2007
In the Valley of Elah 2007
An American Crime 2007
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis 2007
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee 2007
Interview 2007
The Wicker Man 2006
Tristan & Isolde 2006
Annapolis 2006
Flyboys 2006
The Dead Girl 2006
Grasshopper 2006
The Holiday 2006
30 Rock 2006
The Great Raid 2005
The Ape 2005
Fool's Gold 2005
The Colbert Report 2005
Spider-Man 2 2004
The Tony Danza Show 2004
The Company 2003
Blind Spot 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003
Spider-Man 2002
Sonny 2002
City by the Sea 2002
Mother Ghost 2002
The Car Kid 2002
Deuces Wild 2002
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love 2002
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man' 2002
Spider-Mania 2002
James Dean 2001
Mean People Suck 2001
Some Body 2001
Whatever It Takes 2000
At Any Cost 2000
If Tomorrow Comes 2000
Never Been Kissed 1999
To Serve and Protect 1999
Freaks and Geeks 1999
The Early Show 1999
To Serve and Protect 1999
The Daily Show 1996
Profiler 1996
Pacific Blue 1996
The X-Files 1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
LIVE with Kelly and Mark 1988
Saturday Night Live 1975
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Castro's Daughter
Golden State Killer
The Long Home
The Razor's Edge
Kill the Czar
Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
Toad
Foster
Love Meets in the Sunshine
Something's In There