James Franco Height, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Girlfriend, Biography & More

James Edward Franco was born April 19, 1978, known James Franco is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor. Franco is known for his roles in films, such as Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man Trilogy (2002-2007), Milk (2008), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011). He is known for his collaborations with fellow actor Seth Rogen, having starred in eight films and one TV series with him, for example Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016) and The Disaster Artist . (2017), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.

Franco is also known for his television work where his first leading acting role was the character of Daniel Desario in the short-lived ensemble-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000), which developed a cult following. . He played the main character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award, and received nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award and the Primetime Emmy Award. Franco had a recurring role in the daytime soap 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).

Franco volunteers for the Art of Elysium charity and has taught film classes at New York University, University of Southern California, UCLA, Studio 4, Palo Alto High School and at Playhouse West.

Franco described himself as a Jew; Regarding his secular education, he told the Guardian he felt like he had “missed the Jewish experience,” but his Jewish friends told him not to care and said in the same interview that he ‘he liked “the idea of ​​religion as a source of community”. When asked if he was a “believer” he replied, “In God? I do not know. Yes. In a certain way. This is a complicated question. In 2015, he held an official bar mitzvah ceremony, chaired by a rabbi.

After meeting on the set of What It Takes in 1999, Franco dated co-star Marla Sokoloff for five years. He was then in a relationship with actress Ahna O’Reilly until 2011. He confirmed their separation in an interview for the August 2011 issue of Playboy magazine, saying his interest in education separated them.

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