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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 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).
As director
Birth of a Poet
Zeroville
Pretenders
Future World
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
The Disaster Artist
The Institute
Tenn
In Dubious Battle
The Sound and the Fury
Black Dog, Red Dog
Child of God
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
As I Lay Dying
Interior. Leather Bar.
Sal
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
La Passione
DREAM
My Journey in Oz
The Broken Tower
Francophrenia
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
My Own Private River
Blood Meridian Test Reel
Herbert White
Saturday Night
Goat Boy
The Clerk's Tale
Masculinity & Me
As actor
John Rambo
Bunny-Man
Squali
Largo Winch: The Price of Money
Hey Joe
Zeroville
Arctic Dogs
Pretenders
Don't Come Back from the Moon
Future World
Mississippi Requiem
Kin
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
Alien: Covenant
Dumpster Diving
The Disaster Artist
Actors Anonymous
The Vault
The Institute
The Mad Whale
High School Lover
Blood Heist
The Show
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
Sausage Party
The Adderall Diaries
Yosemite
Memoria