James Franco
Known for: Acting
Born: April 19, 1978
Place of birth: 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).
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Filmography
196 movies · 32 TV shows, newest first
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John Rambo
2027
5.8
Squali
2025
6.8
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025
6.5
Hey Joe
2024
5.8
Largo Winch: The Price of Money
2024
4.4
Sleepaway Slasher
2020
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Birth of a Poet
2020
6.0
Arctic Dogs
2019
5.2
Pretenders
2019
5.0
Zeroville
2019
5.5
Don't Come Back from the Moon
2019
7.1
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
6.1
Kin
2018
6.8
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018
4.0
Cultureshock
2018
4.3
Future World
2018
1.0
Mississippi Requiem
2018
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Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018
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Marcians
2017
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Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
2017
5.7
The Show
2017
7.6
The Deuce
2017
4.9
The Vault
20173.0
Dumpster Diving
2017
10.0
Blood Heist
2017
5.6
The Mad Whale
2017
6.2
Alien: Covenant
2017
3.0
Tenn
2017
7.1
The Disaster Artist
2017
4.3
Actors Anonymous
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Metamorphosis: Junior Year
2017
4.3
The Institute
2017
5.8
High School Lover
20171.0
Rio
2017
6.4
Why Him?
2016
7.6
The Labyrinth
2016
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Blood Surf
2016
5.8
King Cobra
2016
5.8
In Dubious Battle
2016
5.4
Goat
2016
5.8
Sausage Party
2016
5.1
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
20165.0
The Caged Pillows
2016
5.0
Burn Country
2016
5.3
The Adderall Diaries
2016
5.2
Memoria
2016
3.3
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
7.8
11.22.63
2016
6.4
Angie Tribeca
2016
4.5
Yosemite
2016
3.0
Richard Peter Johnson
2015
6.1
The Night Before
2015
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A Walk in Winter
2015
5.0
The Sound and the Fury
2015
5.8
Queen of the Desert
2015
7.0
Call Me Lucky
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
7.6
The Little Prince
2015
7.5
Black Dog, Red Dog
201510.0
Miss Famous
2015
4.8
Wild Horses
2015
10.0
Killing Animals
2015
6.3
True Story
2015
5.4
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
4.8
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
7.1
Hot Ones
2015
5.5
I Am Michael
2015
5.4
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
6.2
The Interview
2014
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Future Relic 02
2014
8.0
National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
2014
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Making A Scene With James Franco
2014
6.0
Guests
2014
7.5
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
2014
5.5
Good People
2014
7.3
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014
5.9
Third Person
2014
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Obituaries
2014
6.0
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014
6.1
Palo Alto
2014
4.8
Child of God
2014
6.6
Deadbeat
2014
6.6
Veronica Mars
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
1.0
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
2014
5.0
DREAM
2013
7.0
Homefront
2013
1.0
Playtime
2013
3.6
Sal
2013
5.2
As I Lay Dying
2013
5.2
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
8.0
Here Comes the Night Time
2013
5.6
Mademoiselle C
2013
6.4
What Is Cinema?
2013
7.2
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
2013
6.6
A Fuller Life
2013
5.0
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
6.0
Lovelace
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Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show
2013NR
La Passione
2013
6.2
This Is the End
2013
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My Journey in Oz
2013
5.2
The Director
2013
10.0
The Frame
2013
5.9
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
5.3
Spring Breakers
2013
5.2
Kink
2013
3.9
The Color of Time
2012
6.3
The Mindy Project
2012
4.5
The Letter
2012
6.6
The Iceman
2012
5.3
Maladies
2012
7.3
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012
4.5
The Broken Tower
2012
5.2
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012
7.4
My Own Private River
2012
4.6
About Cherry
2012
6.0
Francophrenia
2012
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Jeffrey
2012
7.0
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011
7.4
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
7.3
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
2011
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Caput
2011
5.3
Your Highness
2011
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Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011
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Two Films, One Legacy
2011
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
5.6
The Green Hornet
2011
7.1
127 Hours
2010
7.2
Conan
2010
6.0
42 One Dream Rush
2010
6.5
Howl
20101.0
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)
2010
3.8
Love and Distrust
2010
6.2
Eat Pray Love
2010
6.8
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
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Masculinity & Me
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The Clerk's Tale
2010
7.7
Saturday Night
2010
4.3
Shadows & Lies
2010
6.1
Date Night
2010
7.1
Herbert White
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Goat Boy
2010
7.2
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
5.5
The Feast of Stephen
2009
6.0
The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco
2009
5.5
Erased James Franco
2009
7.2
Milk
2008
5.4
Good Time Max
2008
6.2
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
6.6
Pineapple Express
2008
6.2
Camille
2008
7.5
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
4.0
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
2007
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Re-Imagining the Goblin
2007
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Fighting, Flying and Driving: The Stunts of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007
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Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007
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'Spider-Man 3' on Location: New York, from Rooftops to Backstreets
2007
6.8
In the Valley of Elah
2007
7.3
An American Crime
2007
6.4
Interview
2007
6.3
Knocked Up
2007
6.5
Spider-Man 3
2007
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On the Set: Spider-Man 3
2007
4.9
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007
7.1
The Holiday
2006
6.0
The Dead Girl
2006
7.5
30 Rock
20064.3
Grasshopper
2006
6.5
Flyboys
2006
4.3
The Wicker Man
2006
6.7
Tristan & Isolde
2006
6.9
Annapolis
2006
7.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.5
The Great Raid
2005
4.3
The Ape
2005
8.0
Fool's Gold
20056.4
The Tony Danza Show
2004
7.3
Spider-Man 2
2004
5.2
The Company
2003
5.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
20038.0
Blind Spot
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
5.2
Sonny
2002
5.8
City by the Sea
2002
6.8
Mother Ghost
20024.0
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
2002
10.0
The Car Kid
2002
5.5
Deuces Wild
2002
7.4
Spider-Man
2002
5.4
Spider-Mania
2002
5.8
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002
6.8
James Dean
20015.5
Some Body
20016.3
Mean People Suck
2001
6.3
At Any Cost
2000
5.8
Whatever It Takes
2000
4.0
If Tomorrow Comes
2000
6.2
The Early Show
1999
8.2
Freaks and Geeks
1999
6.2
Never Been Kissed
1999
6.7
To Serve and Protect
1999
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To Serve and Protect
1999
7.0
Profiler
1996
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
5.3
Pacific Blue
1996
8.4
The X-Files
1993
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.6
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
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Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
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Castro's Daughter
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Golden State Killer
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Bunny-Man
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The Long Home
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The Razor's Edge
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Kill the Czar
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Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
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Toad
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Foster
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Love Meets in the Sunshine
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Something's In There
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Making A Scene
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Runaway
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Rant
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Kyle
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