Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. He will play Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman (2022).
Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.96 |
Birthday | 1984-06-19 |
Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Пол Дано, Paul Franklin Dano, 폴 다노, 保罗·达诺, ポール・ダノ, 保羅・迪諾, |
2006
Little Miss Sunshine
7.686/6840
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
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Little Miss Sunshine
2004
The Girl Next Door
6.721/3353
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, D...
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The Girl Next Door
2008
Explicit Ills
6.5/8
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
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Explicit Ills
2009
The Good Heart
6.2/78
Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determ...
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The Good Heart
2007
There Will Be Blood
8.1/6339
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image...
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There Will Be Blood
2009
Taking Woodstock
6.202/418
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happe...
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2008
Gigantic
5.7/144
Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he m...
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Gigantic
2007
Weapons
5.1/16
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2010
Knight and Day
6.207/4304
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting al...
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Knight and Day
2009
Where the Wild Things Are
6.483/1767
Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and Alexander—cr...
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2005
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
6.103/147
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2010
The Extra Man
5.7/91
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2001
L.I.E.
6.714/112
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L.I.E.
2011
Cowboys & Aliens
5.606/4889
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2015
Love & Mercy
7.096/643
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Love & Mercy
2012
For Ellen
5.5/41
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2011
Meek's Cutoff
6.5/259
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2013
12 Years a Slave
7.943/10978
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well...
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2012
Looper
6.9/9905
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Looper
2012
Being Flynn
6.142/246
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2012
Ruby Sparks
7.106/1557
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life....
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Ruby Sparks
2002
Too Young to Be a Dad
7.4/16
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2013
Prisoners
8.095/11310
Keller Dover is facing a parent’s worst nightmare: his young daughter and her friend have gone missing. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arre...
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Prisoners
2000
The Newcomers
3.7/12
A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.
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The Newcomers
2008
Light and the Sufferer
4.6/5
Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York...
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Light and the Sufferer
2004
Taking Lives
6.375/1533
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2006
The King
6.2/60
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2015
Youth
6.905/1974
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2016
Swiss Army Man
6.926/3388
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2002
The Emperor's Club
7.097/361
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2017
Okja
7.4/4137
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2006
Fast Food Nation
6.055/344
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The Batman
7.7/9555
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as...
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2012
Flatscreen
7.5/2
A bookclub meeting that ends up in a orgie.
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2021
The Guilty
6.4/2480
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
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2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
10/2
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2022
The Fabelmans
7.651/2121
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Spaceman
6.829/590
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
0/0
A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Natio...
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Dumb Money
6.75/366
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
7.1/7
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