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James Edward Franco 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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James Edward Franco 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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Late Night with Seth Meyers
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The X-Files
The Colbert Report
Honest Trailers
Profiler
30 Rock
The Early Show
Deadbeat
The Mindy Project
Veronica Mars
Knocked Up
The Green Hornet
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Holiday
The Wicker Man
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Alien: Covenant
The Night Before
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Date Night
An American Crime
Never Been Kissed
Sausage Party
The Little Prince
To Serve and Protect
Milk
Kin
Palo Alto
Spider-Man
City by the Sea
Eat Pray Love
Freaks and Geeks
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut
Spider-Man 3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Homefront
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
The Great Raid
Your Highness
Why Him?
The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure
Pineapple Express
Spring Breakers
The Deuce
The Labyrinth
Oz the Great and Powerful
James Dean
This Is the End
Future World
127 Hours
Flyboys
Good People
11.22.63
The Interview
Sonny
Production Credits
The Deuce
Palo Alto
The Interview
Why Him?
Future World
11.22.63
The Labyrinth
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