James Franco
Acting
1978-04-19 · 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).
Filmography
TheatersJohn Rambo
2027 · Movie
TheatersConfession
2026 · Movie
TheatersFoster
2026 · Movie
Find Your Friends
2026 · Movie
Squali
2025 · Movie
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
2025 · Movie
Hey Joe
2024 · Movie
Largo Winch: The Price of Money
2024 · Movie
Sleepaway Slasher
2020 · Movie
Birth of a Poet
2020 · Movie
Arctic Dogs
2019 · Movie
Pretenders
2019 · Movie
Zeroville
2019 · Movie
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018 · Movie
Kin
2018 · Movie
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018 · Movie
Cultureshock
2018 · Series
Future World
2018 · Movie
Mississippi Requiem
2018 · Movie
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018 · Movie
Marcians
2017 · Series
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
2017 · Movie
The Show
2017 · Movie
The Deuce
2017 · Series
The Vault
2017 · Movie
Dumpster Diving
2017 · Movie
Blood Heist
2017 · Movie
Don't Come Back from the Moon
2017 · Movie
The Mad Whale
2017 · Movie
Alien: Covenant
2017 · Movie
Tenn
2017 · Movie
The Disaster Artist
2017 · Movie
Actors Anonymous
2017 · Movie
Metamorphosis: Junior Year
2017 · Movie
The Institute
2017 · Movie
High School Lover
2017 · Movie
Rio
2017 · Movie
Why Him?
2016 · Movie
The Labyrinth
2016 · Movie
Blood Surf
2016 · Movie
King Cobra
2016 · Movie
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Movie
Goat
2016 · Movie
Sausage Party
2016 · Movie
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
2016 · Movie
The Caged Pillows
2016 · Movie
Burn Country
2016 · Movie
The Adderall Diaries
2016 · Movie
Memoria
2016 · Movie
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016 · Movie
11.22.63
2016 · Series
Angie Tribeca
2016 · Series
Yosemite
2016 · Movie
Richard Peter Johnson
2015 · Movie
The Night Before
2015 · Movie
A Walk in Winter
2015 · Movie
The Sound and the Fury
2015 · Movie
Queen of the Desert
2015 · Movie
Call Me Lucky
2015 · Movie
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Series
The Little Prince
2015 · Movie
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015 · Movie
Miss Famous
2015 · Movie
Wild Horses
2015 · Movie
Killing Animals
2015 · Movie
True Story
2015 · Movie
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015 · Movie
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015 · Movie
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
I Am Michael
2015 · Movie
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015 · Movie
The Interview
2014 · Movie
Future Relic 02
2014 · Movie
National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
2014 · Movie
Making A Scene With James Franco
2014 · Series
Guests
2014 · Movie
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
2014 · Movie
Good People
2014 · Movie
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 · Movie
Third Person
2014 · Movie
Obituaries
2014 · Movie
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014 · Movie
Palo Alto
2014 · Movie
Child of God
2014 · Movie
Deadbeat
2014 · Series
Veronica Mars
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
2014 · Movie
DREAM
2013 · Movie
Homefront
2013 · Movie
Playtime
2013 · Movie
Sal
2013 · Movie
As I Lay Dying
2013 · Movie
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013 · Movie
Here Comes the Night Time
2013 · Movie
Mademoiselle C
2013 · Movie
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Movie
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
2013 · Movie
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Movie
A Fuller Life
2013 · Movie
Lovelace
2013 · Movie
Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show
2013 · Movie
La Passione
2013 · Movie
This Is the End
2013 · Movie
My Journey in Oz
2013 · Movie
The Director
2013 · Movie
The Frame
2013 · Series
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013 · Movie
Spring Breakers
2013 · Movie
Kink
2013 · Movie
The Color of Time
2012 · Movie
The Mindy Project
2012 · Series
The Letter
2012 · Movie
The Iceman
2012 · Movie
Maladies
2012 · Movie
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012 · Movie
The Broken Tower
2012 · Movie
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012 · Movie
My Own Private River
2012 · Movie
About Cherry
2012 · Movie
Francophrenia
2012 · Movie
Jeffrey
2012 · Movie
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011 · Movie
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · Movie
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
2011 · Series
Caput
2011 · Movie
Your Highness
2011 · Movie
Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011 · Movie
Two Films, One Legacy
2011 · Movie
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011 · Movie
127 Hours: An extraordinary view
2011 · Movie
The Green Hornet
2011 · Movie
127 Hours
2010 · Movie
Conan
2010 · Series
42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Movie
Howl
2010 · Movie
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)
2010 · Movie
Love and Distrust
2010 · Movie
Eat Pray Love
2010 · Movie
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010 · Movie
Masculinity & Me
2010 · Movie
The Clerk's Tale
2010 · Movie
Saturday Night
2010 · Movie
Shadows & Lies
2010 · Movie
Date Night
2010 · Movie
Herbert White
2010 · Movie
Goat Boy
2010 · Movie
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009 · Movie
The Feast of Stephen
2009 · Movie
The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco
2009 · Movie
Erased James Franco
2009 · Movie
Milk
2008 · Movie
Good Time Max
2008 · Movie
Nights in Rodanthe
2008 · Movie
Pineapple Express
2008 · Movie
Camille
2008 · Movie
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008 · Series
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
2007 · Movie
'Spider-Man 3' on Location: New York, from Rooftops to Backstreets
2007 · Movie
Fighting, Flying and Driving: The Stunts of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007 · Movie
Re-Imagining the Goblin
2007 · Movie
Tangled Web: The Love Triangles of 'Spider-Man 3'
2007 · Movie
In the Valley of Elah
2007 · Movie
An American Crime
2007 · Movie
Interview
2007 · Movie
Knocked Up
2007 · Movie
Spider-Man 3
2007 · Movie
On the Set: Spider-Man 3
2007 · Movie
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007 · Movie
The Dead Girl
2006 · Movie
30 Rock
2006 · Series
Grasshopper
2006 · Movie
Flyboys
2006 · Movie
The Wicker Man
2006 · Movie
Tristan & Isolde
2006 · Movie
Annapolis
2006 · Movie
The Colbert Report
2005 · Series
The Great Raid
2005 · Movie
The Ape
2005 · Movie
Fool's Gold
2005 · Movie
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Series
Spider-Man 2
2004 · Movie
The Company
2003 · Movie
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Series
Blind Spot
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Sonny
2002 · Movie
City by the Sea
2002 · Movie
Mother Ghost
2002 · Movie
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
2002 · Movie
The Car Kid
2002 · Movie
Deuces Wild
2002 · Movie
Spider-Man
2002 · Movie
Spider-Mania
2002 · Movie
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of Spider-Man
2002 · Movie
James Dean
2001 · Movie
Some Body
2001 · Movie
Mean People Suck
2001 · Movie
At Any Cost
2000 · Movie
Whatever It Takes
2000 · Movie
If Tomorrow Comes
2000 · Movie
The Early Show
1999 · Series
Freaks and Geeks
1999 · Series
Never Been Kissed
1999 · Movie
To Serve and Protect
1999 · Series
To Serve and Protect
1999 · Movie
Profiler
1996 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
Pacific Blue
1996 · Series
The X-Files
1993 · Series
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Series
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Runaway
Movie
The Long Home
Movie
Love Meets in the Sunshine
Movie
Kyle
Movie
Something's In There
Movie
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe: A Life on Screen
Movie
Castro's Daughter
Movie
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
Movie
Toad
Movie
Kill the Czar
Movie
The Razor's Edge
Movie
Bunny-Man
Movie
Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
Movie
Golden State Killer
Movie
Making A Scene
Movie
Rant
Movie