James Franco
Birthday: 1978-04-19 | Place of Birth: Palo Alto, California, USAJames Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor. He left college in order to pursue acting and started off his career by making guest appearances on television series in the 1990s. Franco landed a lead part on the short-lived cult hit television program Freaks and Geeks and later achieved recognition for playing the titular character in the TV biopic James Dean (2001), for which he was awarded a Golden Globe Award. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. Franco has appeared in an eclectic range of projects since the 2000s. Ranging from period to contemporary pieces, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicized indie films, as well as fantasy movies to biopics and soap operas. Other notable films include Pineapple Express, a stoner comedy that earned him his second Golden Globes nomination, the Harvey Milk-biopic Milk (both 2008) as well as Danny Boyle's 2010 movie 127 Hours, about real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston's struggle to free his hand from a boulder. His performance in 127 Hours earned him nominations for many high-profile awards, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and SAG Awards (None of which he won) Franco has hosted the skit comedy Saturday Night Live twice as well as the 83rd Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway. He volunteers for the Art of Elysium charity and is in a relationship with actress Ahna O'Reilly. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Franco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Lemmy (voice)
as Maxwell
as Roman Smalley
as Vikar
as Taylor Balik
as Warlord
as Ed Mass
as Tommy / "Johnny"
as Vincent Martino / Frankie Martino
as Druggie (voice)
as Jake Epping
as Jake Epping
as Joe Kerekes
as Laird Mayhew
as Lindsay
as Mac McLeod
as Mitch
as Phil
as Stephen Elliott
as The Fox (voice)
as Christian Longo
as Henry Cadogan
as Michael Glatze
as Self
as Tomas Eldan
