Paul Dano
Paul Dano was born in Harlem, New York, United States on June 19th, 1984 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 39, Paul Dano biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and musician. Dano started 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.
(2002) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in 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 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Prisoners (2013).
His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2015), earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the 2018 drama film Wildlife, based on the novel by Richard Ford and starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal.
He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan.
Early life
Dano was born in New York City, New York, the son of Gladys (née Pipp), a homemaker, and Paul A. Dano, a financial advisor. He has a younger sister named Sarah. Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School. While he was a child, Dano's family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut. Dano continued his education at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and attending Eugene Lang College in New York City. He was involved in community theater, and while he was performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York.
Personal life
Dano has been in a relationship with actress and screenwriter Zoe Kazan since 2007. They have a daughter, born in August 2018. They reside in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.
Dano is the vocalist and lead guitarist of the band Mook. Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho said he wrote a part specifically for Dano in 2017's Okja after seeing one of his shows in Brooklyn.
Career
In John Tillinger's revival of Inherit the Wind with George C. Scott and Charles Durning, Dano made his Broadway debut at age twelve. He appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and played a small part in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers. Patrick Whalen appeared in several episodes of The Sopranos (season 4).
In L.I.E., Dano appeared in his first major film role as a teen boy who is obsessed with a middle-aged ephebophile (Brian Cox). (2001). He appeared in Too Young to Be a Dad as a high school student whose life is interrupted when his mother becomes pregnant. Martin Blythe appeared in The Emperor's Club in 2002. In 2004, he appeared as young Martin Asher in Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. In addition, Dano appeared in the sleeper film The Girl Next Door, alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, and Chris Marquette. He appeared in The King and The Ballad of Jack and Rose in 2005.
He came to greater prominence in 2006 as the lead in the comedic drama Little Miss Sunshine, which received critical acclaim and annual recognition for the cast. He appeared in the 2006 film Fast Food Country, based on Eric Schlosser's nonfiction book. Dano appeared in two films for the 2007 period film There Will Be Blood, which received accolades and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. "His appearance was so electric that the film sags whenever he isn't around," Texas Monthly wrote. "All praise to the baby-faced Dano...for bringing sly cunning and elocity to Plainview's most adamant adversary," Peter Travers said. Dano was included in Rolling Stone's Hot List for 2007, naming his appearance style "Daniel Day-Lewis + Billy Crudup" as his tribute "John Depp."
During its 2007 Off-Broadway run, Dano appeared in several other Broadway performances, including A Thousand Clowns at the Roundabout Theatre and Ethan Hawke's debut Things We Want.
He appeared in Gigantic, a poorly reviewed film about a man struggling to adopt a Chinese baby starring Zooey Deschanel. In 2009's Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film, he reunited with Brian Cox. He played one of the creatures in the film version of Where the Wild Things Are (2009).
In 2010, King and Day, an action thriller starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, he played a genius inventor. Cutoff, Meek's Cutoff, was a well-reviewed historical drama throughout the year. He appeared in Cowboys and Aliens, a big budget science fiction film released in 2011.
Dano appeared in three feature films in 2012: Ruby Sparks, as a writer whose fictional character (played by Zoe Kazan, the film's writer and Dano's associate) inexplicably appears as a real person; time travel thriller Looper, being flynn; and Being Flynn, as the film's writer, Nick Flynn. Dano appeared in Steve McQueen's period drama 12 Years a Slave, based on Solomon Northup's memoirs. An overseer at the plantation Northup is sold by Dano. The film was a huge critical success and received the Academy Award for Best Picture, among other prizes.
In the 2014 film Love & Mercy, Dano played a younger version of Wilson, with John Cusack as an older version of Wilson, for which he was given a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Dano appeared in the Italian comedy-drama Youth in 2015, starring Jimmy Tree, an actor who is planning for a new role as a robot, but is angry that he was best remembered by the public for his previous appearances as a robot. In the BBC's six-part version of Tolstoy's War and Peace in January 2016, Dano appeared as Pierre Bezukhov.
During the Nostalgic for Australian singer Sia's album "Bird Set Free" in fall 2016, he appeared onstage as an onstage "stand-in" onstage.
Dano would make his directorial debut with the film Wildlife, which is based on Richard Ford's 1990 book of the same name. Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the film, which will be produced by June Pictures. "I have always wanted to make films and have always known that I will make films about family," Dano said. I couldn't be happier to have such talented collaborators as Carey and Jake leading the way." On its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, the film received critical acclaim. It was also on display at the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, and the Mill Valley Film Festival. With the consensus finding, "Wildlife's portrait of a family in crisis is beautifully conceived by director Paul Dano and brought the film to life by Carey Mulligan's career-best performance."
In 2016, Dano appeared in Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan's absurdist black comedy film Swiss Army Man, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. His character is that of a suicidal man who is trapped on a desert island who befriends a fart's corpse. On January 22, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and on June 24, it opened in theaters. Despite the fact that some viewers walked out of the film screening due to its odd humor, most reviewers were more favourable about the film. Paul was nominated in 2014 and 2016, and was awarded twice in 2007 and 2016.
In 2018, he portrayed inmates David Sweat in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora alongside Patricia Arquette and Benicio del Toro for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.
Dano appeared in Sam Shepard's True West revival with Ethan Hawke at the Roundabout Theater Company in New York from December 27, 2018 to March 17, 2019.
In Matt Reeves' 2022 superhero film The Riddler, Dano was cast as The Riddler. After seeing Dano's portrayal of Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy, Reeves wrote the script with Dano in mind.
Paul Dano was cast in Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film based on Spielberg's own life in April 2021. Burt Fabelman, a character based on Spielberg's father Arnold, will appear in the film. He appeared alongside Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan in Netflix's Spaceman, an adaptation of Jaroslav Kalfa's book Spaceman of Bohemia, directed by Johan Renck. He is also supposed to appear in AMC's animated drama Pantheon and a television series based on Mr. and Mrs. Smith for Amazon Prime Video, starring Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Michaela Coel, and John Torturro. Dano will appear in Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, Ben Mezrich's The Antisocial Network's sequel, alongside Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, and Pete Davidson in September 2022.
Dano will write his first script, The Riddler: Year One for DC's Black Label imprint, in March 2022. In the continuity of The Batman and showcase Nashton's ascension to become the Riddler, the six-issue limited series will be published.