
James Franco
Born April 19, 1978 · Palo Alto, California, USA
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).
Movies

Alien: Covenant

Spider-Man

Spider-Man 3

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

This Is the End

The Interview

Homefront

The Little Prince

The Holiday

Spider-Man 2

127 Hours

Eat Pray Love

Why Him?

Sausage Party

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Green Hornet

Knocked Up

Oz the Great and Powerful

Pineapple Express

Date Night

Arctic Dogs

In Dubious Battle

The Night Before

Never Been Kissed

Your Highness

The Wicker Man
TV Shows

Saturday Night Live

Conan

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Colbert Report

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The X-Files

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

30 Rock

Hot Ones

The Mindy Project

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Pacific Blue

Profiler

Angie Tribeca

Freaks and Geeks

The Deuce

Marcians

11.22.63

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis

The Early Show

The Frame

Deadbeat

Cultureshock

Hamish and Andy's Gap Year

To Serve and Protect

Making A Scene With James Franco
More Movies

Spring Breakers

In the Valley of Elah

Tristan & Isolde

Whatever It Takes

True Story

The Disaster Artist

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Lovelace

Queen of the Desert

Good People

The Great Raid

Third Person

About Cherry

An American Crime

Veronica Mars

City by the Sea

King Cobra

Deuces Wild

Milk

SNL50: The Homecoming Concert

Nights in Rodanthe

The Iceman

The Vault

Kin

Largo Winch: The Price of Money

Flyboys

Every Thing Will Be Fine

Palo Alto

The Adderall Diaries

The Dead Girl

Future World

The Institute

The Show

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Zeroville

As I Lay Dying

Confession

James Dean

Wild Horses

Annapolis

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

The Company

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin

Camille

Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?

John Rambo

Howl

The Sound and the Fury

Love and Distrust

Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary

Comedy Central Roast of James Franco

I Am Michael

On the Set: Spider-Man 3

The Letter

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards

Mademoiselle C

The 4%: Film's Gender Problem

Goat

Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

Here Comes the Night Time

SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas

The Color of Time

A Fuller Life

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10

Black Dog, Red Dog

Sonny

Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto

Good Time Max

Child of God

Shadows & Lies

Interview

Call Me Lucky

Actors Anonymous

Fighting, Flying and Driving: The Stunts of 'Spider-Man 3'

To Serve and Protect

Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'

Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine

Don't Come Back from the Moon

My Journey in Oz

Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster

Saturday Night

Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee

Spider-Mania

Eames: The Architect and the Painter

High School Lover

Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of 'Spider-Man 3'

'Spider-Man 3' on Location: New York, from Rooftops to Backstreets

Re-Imagining the Goblin

What Is Cinema?

Burn Country

The Mad Whale

The Razor's Edge

Playtime

Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special

National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

Mississippi Requiem

The Broken Tower

Pretenders

A Walk in Winter

Killing Animals

The Labyrinth

Interior. Leather Bar.

Mother Ghost

Yosemite

Two Films, One Legacy

Toad

The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis

Hey Joe

The Ape

Maladies

Obituaries

Squali

The Car Kid

Foster

Memoria

At Any Cost

The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco

Blood Surf

Bunny-Man

Hart Crane: An Exegesis

Richard Peter Johnson

If Tomorrow Comes

I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel

Sal

Caput

127 Hours: An extraordinary view

Blood Heist

Fool's Gold

Erased James Franco




