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James Franco
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Best known for his breakthrough starring role on "Freaks and Geeks" (1999), James Franco was born in Palo Alto, California on April 19, 1978. Growing up with his two younger brothers, James graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996 and went on to attend UCLA, majoring in English. To overcome his shyness, he got into acting while studying there, which, much to his parents' dismay, he left after only one year. After fifteen months of intensive study at Robert Carnegie's Playhouse West, James began actively pursuing his dream of finding work as an actor in Hollywood. In that short time, he landed himself a starring role on "Freaks and Geeks" (1999). The show, however, was not a hit to its viewers at the time, and was canceled after its first year. Now, it has become a cult-hit. Prior to joining "Freaks and Geeks" (1999), Franco starred in the TV miniseries To Serve and Protect (1999) (TV). After that, he had a starring role in Whatever It Takes (2000).

Although he'd been working steadily, it wasn't until the TNT made-for-television movie, James Dean (2001) (TV) that James rose to fan-magazine fame and got to show off his talent. Since then, he has been working non-stop. After losing the lead role to Tobey Maguire, James settled for the part of "Harry Osborne", Spider-Man's best friend in the summer 2002 major hit Spider-Man (2002). He returned to the Osborne role for the next two films in the trilogy.

Next was Deuces Wild (2002) and City by the Sea (2002), in which Robert De Niro personally had him cast, after viewing his performance in James Dean (2001) (TV). He was recently seen in David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express (2008) opposite Seth Rogen, in George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe (2008), starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane and in Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (2007), starring Tommy Lee Jones. Also starring opposite Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008/I) in which his performance earned him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Definitely growing out of his shyness, James Franco is turning into a legend of his own.

James Franco stared in:

Title Year Saw with/at: Scene On Rating
Spiderman 2002 at Branford Hoyts 2002-05-03 *** 1/2
Spiderman 2 2004 in Tampa, FL 2004-10-04 ** 1/2
Pineapple Express 2008 Suzy 2018-03-21 ** 1/2
Milk 2008 Suzy & Kendra 2009-02-07 *** 1/2
Eat Pray Love 2010 Suzy 2010-12-26 **
127 Hours 2010 Suzy 2011-02-22 *** 1/2
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Kendra 2012-02-25 ***
Your Highness 2011 2011-08-09 ** 1/2
This is the End 2013 Suzy 2014-04-06 1/2 *
Why Him? 2017 Suzy 2017-05-22 ** 1/2
The Disaster Artist 2017 Suzy and Kendra 2018-01-09 **
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 2018 Suzy 2018-12-03 *** 1/2