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).
194 acting credits · 39 directing credits
Acting · 194
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The X-Files
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
The Colbert Report
2005
30 Rock
2006
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hot Ones
2015
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Spider-Man
2002
Pacific Blue
1996
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Mindy Project
2012
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Profiler
1996
Spider-Man 3
2007
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Angie Tribeca
2016
The Deuce
2017
Freaks and Geeks
1999
Alien: Covenant
2017
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Spider-Man 2
2004
11.22.63
2016
Homefront
2013
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
2008
The Holiday
2006
Marcians
2017
The Interview
2014
Sausage Party
2016
The Frame
2013
Knocked Up
2007
Eat Pray Love
2010
This Is the End
2013
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
127 Hours
2010
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
The Little Prince
2015
Pineapple Express
2008
Lovelace
2013
The Green Hornet
2011
Why Him?
2016
Deadbeat
2014
Date Night
2010
Milk
2008
Spring Breakers
2013
Tristan & Isolde
2006
The Iceman
2012
The Great Raid
2005
Whatever It Takes
2000
Never Been Kissed
1999
An American Crime
2007
Kin
2018
The Early Show
1999
Your Highness
2011
Annapolis
2006
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Disaster Artist
2017
Arctic Dogs
2019
The Night Before
2015
Largo Winch: The Price of Money
2024
In the Valley of Elah
2007
Hamish and Andy's Gap Year
2011
The Wicker Man
2006
Third Person
2014
Veronica Mars
2014
Flyboys
2006
True Story
2015
King Cobra
2016
The Vault
2017
About Cherry
2012
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
Palo Alto
2014
Queen of the Desert
2015
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
—
Howl
2010
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Good People
2014
The Institute
2017
The Show
2017
Cultureshock
2018
Future World
2018
City by the Sea
2002
Goat
2016
The Long Home
—
The Dead Girl
2006
Sonny
2002
Deuces Wild
2002
Zeroville
2019
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
As I Lay Dying
2013
James Dean
2001
Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary
2018
Wild Horses
2015
The Company
2003
The Adderall Diaries
2016
Camille
2008
Love and Distrust
2010
Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee
2007
Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
Interview
2007
Pretenders
2019
Call Me Lucky
2015
The Letter
2012
I Am Michael
2015
Behind the Ultimate Spin: The Making of 'Spider-Man'
2002
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Burn Country
2016
To Serve and Protect
1999
Saturday Night
2010
Don't Come Back from the Moon
2019
John Rambo
—
Here Comes the Night Time
2013
Mademoiselle C
2013
Maladies
2012
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
2013
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
2012
Drugs, Skate & Violence: Filmmaker Harmony Korine
2017
Shadows & Lies
2010
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
2014
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
2016
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Mother Ghost
2002
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
Obituaries
2014
Killing Animals
2015
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
Actors Anonymous
2017
Bunny-Man
2026
Child of God
2014
Sal
2013
The Color of Time
2012
The Broken Tower
2012
Behind the Scenes of Palo Alto
2014
Good Time Max
2008
A Fuller Life
2013
What Is Cinema?
2013
High School Lover
2017
Yosemite
2016
National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
2014
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011
Memoria
2016
Mississippi Requiem
2018
Toad
—
Squali
2025
Dumpster Diving
2017
Hey Joe
2024
Kill the Czar
—
The Car Kid
2002
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018
Playtime
2013
Blind Spot
2003
The Ape
2005
Golden State Killer
—
The Labyrinth
2016
The Mad Whale
2017
At Any Cost
2000
To Serve and Protect
1999
The Caged Pillows
2016
Castro's Daughter
—
You Always Stalk the Ones You Love
2002
Blood Surf
2016
Richard Peter Johnson
2015
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
2007
My Journey in Oz
2013
Foster
—
Spider-Mania
2002
Catblock (The Ultimate Co%kblock)
2010
Fool's Gold
2005
Caput
2011
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012
A Walk in Winter
2015
The Razor's Edge
—
Some Body
2001
If Tomorrow Comes
2000
Two Films, One Legacy
2011
Love Meets in the Sunshine
—
The Room Before and After - Part 1: James Franco
2009
Mean People Suck
2001
Blood Heist
2017
Masculinity & Me
2010
Jesse Heiman: World's Greatest Extra
—
Grasshopper
2006
Roast of James Franco: Red Carpet Pre-Show
2013
Something's In There
—
Erased James Franco
2009
Future Relic 02
2014
Directing · 39
The Deuce
2017
11.22.63
2016
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Disaster Artist
2017
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
The Institute
2017
Future World
2018
The Long Home
—
Zeroville
2019
As I Lay Dying
2013
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
42 One Dream Rush
2010
Pretenders
2019
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Saturday Night
2010
Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011
Tenn
2017
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
Child of God
2014
Sal
2013
The Broken Tower
2012
Good Time Max
2008
My Own Private River
2012
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018
The Ape
2005
Herbert White
2010
My Journey in Oz
2013
Fool's Gold
2005
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012
The Feast of Stephen
2009
Birth of a Poet
2020
Masculinity & Me
2010
The Clerk's Tale
2010
Francophrenia
2012
DREAM
2013
Kyle
—
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
2014
La Passione
2013
Goat Boy
2010