James Franco

Non-Public Biography Node
Birthday: April 19, 1978
Age: 34
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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Most famous faces went to the school of looking-pretty-talking-good, but some of your favorite TV stars actually graduated from real life Ivy League schools.

I’m talking the same schools that Barack Obama and Bill Gates attended. From James Franco going to like 7 different schools to all the Hollywood Harvard alum, here are the top celebrity Ivy League grads.

James Franco: Franco has been to more universities than the average human spends years total in school. Franco’s Ivy League stint was Yale, where he got his doctorate in English. No idea if he’s graduated yet, but he he’s going to like 5 different schools right now. Sometimes more isn’t always more, James Franco.
James Franco lip sings Selena Gomez and Rihanna songs and records himself doing it. Why? Because why the hell not. James Franco for my future best friend/boyfriend/pot dealer/karaoke instructor!

Let’s break this down. In the first video, Franco is singing Gomez’s hit, “Love You Like A Love Song.” He’s got Kevin Federline-esque braids and is sitting passenger side while someone films him from the back seat.

It’s definitely not weird for a grown ass man to sing a Selena Gomez song!
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Some celebrities—despite being filthy rich and famous—want more out of life. They want a college education. Or maybe they just want to get some tail and do keg stands.

For whatever reason, a handful of celebrities want to expand their horizons, so they decided to head back to college.

Kudos to them for chasing after a higher education, because I think most of us would settle on ‘Celebrity’ as a career, head to Maui, and sip on Mai Tais for the rest of our lives. But here you have them—5 celebs who went back to college.

James Franco: What college
For the past few weeks, the Internet has been ripe with pictures of Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in bikinis, shooting their new movie, Spring Breakers. What’s the movie about? As far as I can tell, it’s about Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in bikinis.

Okay, so there’s a little more depth than that. James Franco is also in it, playing a tatted up, dreadlock-wearing drug dealer.

The movie focuses on four college friends who find themselves in a heap
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...
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."
HOLLYSCOOP EXCLUSIVE
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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