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. 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. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to...
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Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he...
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12 Years a Slave
as John TibeatsIn the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is...
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Prisoners
as Alex JonesKeller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is...
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There Will Be Blood
as Paul Sunday / Eli SundayRuthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California....
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The Fabelmans
as Burt FabelmanGrowing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker...
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In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When...
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A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one –...
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Where the Wild Things Are
as Alexander (voice)Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking...
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Ruby Sparks
as CalvinCalvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now...
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Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with...
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A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an...
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Cowboys & Aliens
as Percy DolarhydeA stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a...
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Taking Lives
as Young AsherRecruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes...
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Swiss Army Man
as HankAlone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But...
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Okja
as JayA young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from...
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A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to...
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Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social...
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L.I.E.
as Howie BlitzerWith his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He...
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose
as ThaddiusJack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on...
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Youth
as Jimmy TreeTwo lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder...
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Meek's Cutoff
as Thomas GatelyA group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in...
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Taking Woodstock
as VW GuyThe story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the...
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The Emperor's Club
as Martin BlytheWilliam Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his...
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Love & Mercy
as Brian Wilson 1960sIn the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins...
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Fast Food Nation
as BrianA dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair...
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Gigantic
as BrianYoung mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms...
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Being Flynn
as Nick FlynnWorking in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and...
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The Good Heart
as LucasJacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley...
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The Extra Man
as Louis IvesA man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright...
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For Ellen
as Joby TaylorAfter an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife....
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Explicit Ills
as RoccoThe film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in...
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The King
as PaulA motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father,...
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The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
as SelfA full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser...
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Too Young to Be a Dad
as Matt FreemanWhen 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to...
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The Newcomers
as JoelA 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.
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Weapons
as ChrisWeapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of...
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Light and the Sufferer
as Don (AKA: Light)Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which...
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The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
as SelfA fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."
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The Wizard of the Kremlin
as Vadim BaranovRussia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that...
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Vengeance in the Making
as SelfA documentary featured on the Blu-Ray of the 2022 film The Batman, featuring interviews with...
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The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
as Prior WalterAn all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of...
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The Sopranos
as Patrick WhaleyThe story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he...
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as SelfAfter Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent...
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
as SelfSeth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular...
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as uncreditedStephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,...
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as SelfPBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through...
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Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The...
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
as SelfOnce Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a...
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The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - GuestOnce Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a...
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Pantheon
as Caspian Keyes (voice)A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her...
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Hot Ones
as SelfThe show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then...
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
as Hot NeighborMeet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and...
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as SelfJimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and...
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Off Camera with Sam Jones
as SelfPhotographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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War and Peace
as Pierre BezukhovA story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I,...
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Smart Guy
as uncreditedT.J. is a boy genius who gets bumped up from the fourth grade to high school. T.J. tries to...
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Escape at Dannemora
as David SweatThe stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015,...
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Fantasmas
as JeffJulio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to...
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