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Paul Dano

06/19/1984 (39 years old) | New York City, USA | Actor | Male | 182 cm (5'0")

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.

Paul Dano Top Movies and TV Shows in 2024

Chart List

1.	The Batman	7,282
2.	Spaceman	5,033
3.	Dumb Money	5,013
4.	Cowboys & Aliens	1,089
5.	Youth	73
6.	There Will Be Blood	60
7.	The Girl Next Door	24
8.	Prisoners	18
9.	Where the Wild Things Are	14
10.	The Fabelmans	12
11.	Little Miss Sunshine	7
12.	Being Flynn	5
13.	Taking Woodstock	2
14.	Wildlife	0
15.	Looper	0
16.	Taking Lives	0
17.	12 Years a Slave	0
18.	Love & Mercy	0

The Batman

Movie | United States | 03/01/2022 | Superhero | DC

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 the Riddler.

7.8/10

85%

216,492

Spaceman

When an astronaut collecting ancient dust on the galaxy's edge finds his life falling apart, he seeks help from a shadowy creature lurking on his ship.

5.7/10

50%

5,033

Dumb Money

Movie | United States | 09/15/2023 | Comedy | Business

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

6.9/10

84%

5,836

Cowboys & Aliens

Movie | United States | 07/29/2011 | Science Fiction | Alien Invasion

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

6.0/10

44%

3,013

Youth

Movie | Italy | 05/21/2015 | Drama | Dramedy

YOUTH explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

7.3/10

71%

230

There Will Be Blood

Movie | United States | 12/28/2007 | Drama | Business

When Daniel Plainview - a ruthless oil prospector - learns of oil-rich land in California that can be bought cheaply, he moves his operation there and begins manipulating and exploiting the local landowners into selling him their property. Using his young adopted son H.W. to project the image of a caring family man, Plainview gains the cooperation of almost all the locals with lofty promises to build schools and cultivate the land to make their community flourish. Over time, Plainviews gradual accumulation of wealth and power causes his true self to surface, and he begins to slowly alienate himself from everyone in his life.

8.2/10

91%

378

The Girl Next Door

Movie | United States | 04/09/2004 | Comedy | Teens

Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn star. As Danielle's past catches up with her, Matthew's love for her forces him to re-evaluate his goals.

6.7/10

56%

2,412

Prisoners

Movie | United States | 09/21/2013 | Thriller | Disapperance

When Keller Dovers daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

8.2/10

81%

4,144

Where the Wild Things Are

Movie | Germany | 10/16/2009 | Fantasy | Magical Realism

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 -- crown him as their king, play rumpus, build forts and discover secret hideaways.

6.8/10

73%

The Fabelmans

Movie | United States | 11/11/2022 | Drama | Showbusiness

A coming-of-age story about a young man’s discovery of a shattering family secret and an exploration of the power of movies to help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.

7.9/10

91%

4,501

Little Miss Sunshine

Movie | United States | 07/26/2006 | Drama | Dramedy

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.

7.8/10

91%

381

Being Flynn

Movie | United States | 03/02/2012 | Drama | Drugs

During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.

6.4/10

51%

Taking Woodstock

Movie | United States | 08/26/2009 | Musical | Music

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 happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers thinking he could drum up some much-needed business for his parents' run-down motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbor’s farm in White Lake, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life–and American culture–forever.

6.7/10

48%

Wildlife

Movie | United States | 09/23/2018 | Drama | Relationship

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves.

6.8/10

93%

Looper

Movie | United States | 09/28/2012 | Science Fiction | Time travel

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joes future self for assassination.

7.4/10

93%

399

Taking Lives

Movie | United States | 03/16/2004 | Thriller | Serial killer

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows its only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killers only eyewitness.

6.2/10

22%

1,076

12 Years a Slave

Movie | United States | 10/30/2013 | Drama | Racism

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 as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

8.1/10

95%

138

Love & Mercy

Movie | United States | 06/05/2015 | Drama | Music

The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.

7.5/10

91%

107

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