James Franco

Non-Public Biography Node
Birthday: April 19, 1978
Age: 33
Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Palo Alto, CA
Hometown: New York City, NY
Big Break: Freaks and Geeks, James Dean
Biography

American actor James Franco was born on April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, CA. He dropped out of UCLA in his freshman year to pursue an acting career. Franco was cast in the television series Freaks and Geeks. He starred in the film Whatever It Takes in 2000. The following year, Franco was cast in the TV biopic James Dean. He earned a Golden Globe for his performance.

Franco was a regular fixture in the Spiderman movies, playing Harry Osborn. Franco has appeared in several films in recent years. Most notably, he starred in the comedy Pineapple Express opposite Seth Rogen in 2008. Franco will appear in Gus Van Sant's Milk starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk.

Did you know…
  • He gave his Golden Globe award to his mom
  • He is a painter
  • He has two brothers
  • He is the new face of Gucci men's fragrance
  • His nickname is Ted and Teddy
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James Franco has been caught on the set of the new porn biopic “Lovelace” dressed as Hugh Hefner. And I hate to admit it, but Franco looks good as a young Hugh Hefner.

I can’t imagine a time where Hugh Hefner didn’t look grandpa-ish in a captain hat, but Franco is proving that Hugh used to be an attractive guy.

Franco got his curly hair flat ironed and brushed into a comb-over and is wearing what looks like a velour shirt...
Demi Moore has been added to the already celeb jam-packed cast of "Lovelace", the biopic about the 1970's porn star Linda Lovelace. The cast already includes a line-up featuring Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Bobby Cannavale, Chris Noth, Sharon Stone, Juno Temple, Hank Azaria and James Franco.

I guess this is Demi Moore's retaliation for Ashton Kutcher appearing in both "Valentines Day" and "New Years Eve." If Kutcher's name can appear on the movie poster next to Lea Michele...
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James Franco will appear as Playboy founder Hugh Hefner in the new Linda Lovelace biopic. His part is just a cameo and reportedly will only take one day of filming.

He was originally going to play Lovelace’s husband Chuck Traynor, but then they probably looked deep into his lazy shark eyes and general creepy nonchalance and realized that James Franco IS Hugh Hefner.


When he takes his finals, James Franco should be able to just write in ‘I was in 127 Hours’ and call it a day.

Jose Angel Santana, a former NYU professor, is claiming he got fired after giving James Franco a D. Santana taught Franco in his “Directing the Actor” class, and is now suing the University to get his job back after claiming he was wrongfully terminated for being Hispanic and giving Franco a bad grade.
James Franco has made a name for himself in Hollywood as being that guy who has a million jobs. He has like 5 different degrees, acts, makes music sometimes, writes poetry, he even makes invisible art (this is real, scroll down).

So basically, Franco constantly begs the question, is there anything Franco can't do? No, Nothing. There is nothing that Franco can't do. Well maybe there's one thing he's not very good at...

Porn.

Franco stopped by Conan's show to talk about his failed foray into porn acting.

"When I was young, it's not like I went down to Van Nuys and tried to break into the porn industry, I got a video camera and my girlfriend and I decide to film ourselves," he tells Conan, "And I watched it back said 'Yeah, let's never watch that again."
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For some reason, everyone hates James Franco.

In an interview with Playboy magazine recently, Franco said he thinks critics aren’t going to like “Rise of the Planet of Apes” and he assumes they are going to make Franco take the blame, “Critics will be out to kill this movie and blame me for it just because they are out to kill me. Last year people were pretty nice. This is the year when people are going to have fun going after me,” says Franco.

Hollyscoop caught up with Franco at the films premiere and asked him to clarify what he meant when he predicted that critics would hate on him in this film.
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I didn’t even know James Franco had a long-term girlfriend, but apparently they’ve split up. James had been dating Ahna O’Reilly for over five years, but they just recently decided to call it quits.

James – who has been studying at Yale University, New York University, Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, Brooklyn College and Columbia University – told the new issue of Playboy magazine:

"It's over. That lasted about four or five years. We'd been living together...
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James Franco has a career in every industry short of rocket science, but he somehow found the time to sit down for a Playboy interview.

In the upcoming issue, Franco addresses the controversy that has seemed to surround him since his lethargic Oscar hosting with Anne Hathaway. Franco told the mag:

“It’s hard to talk about [the Oscars] because it’s like assigning blame...
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If you are a struggling star f-cker, you should try and downgrade to dating a celebrity sibling. They share the genes and bone structure of your favorite A-listers but are mostly just famous by association. Here are the 5 most eligible celebrity siblings:

Monica Cruz looks almost exactly like big sis Penelope Cruz, in fact she was her stand-in for “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” She is an actress too and has done a handful of films but made headlines when she and Penelope shared a girl-on-girl kiss for their brother’s music video. Apparently, incest is okay if both siblings are super attractive?

In terms of Hollywood siblings, Dave Franco is LA’s best-kept secret. Imagine a younger, hotter version of James Franco minus...
Permanent stoner James Franco is sooooo over Twitter and Facebook. And because he's over it, he thinks Social Media is over. Sure buddy.

James told Politico that he feels too much time is wasted on the sites and insisted that the trend will no longer be relevant in a few years.

"Social media is over. Still up there. Going down. You heard it here first," he said.

"If you want to write, make the time. We all have an hour or two a day that can be used for surfing Facebook or writing. No one is going to beg any new writer to write."

Maybe he's bitter because thousands of fans took to twitter to complain about what a bad host he was at the Academy Awards earlier this year. There's no excuse for that one James, you simply sucked at the job.

Do you agree with James? Is Social Media dead? Or is he just bitter because of all the bad press he's been getting?

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