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Paul Franklin Dano (/ˈdeɪnoʊ/;[1] born June 19, 1984)[2] 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.

Paul Dano
Dano at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Born	Paul Franklin Dano (1984-06-19) June 19, 1984 (age 38) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present
Partner	Zoe Kazan (2007–present)
Children	1

Since the 2010s, Dano has received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave (2013), Alex Jones in Prisoners (2013), and Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014), the last of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman (2022) and Burt Fabelman in The Fabelmans (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.

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.[3] He has a younger sister named Sarah.[4][5][6] Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School.[5][7] While he was a child, Dano's family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut.[5] Dano continued his education at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and attending Eugene Lang College in New York City.[5] He was involved in community theater, and while he was performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York.[5]

Career

2000s

Dano made his Broadway debut at age twelve in John Tillinger's revival of Inherit the Wind alongside George C. Scott and Charles Durning.[8] He appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and had a minor role in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers. He played the part of Patrick Whalen in several episodes of The Sopranos (season 4).

Dano acted in his first major film role when he was sixteen, playing Howie Blitzer, a teenage boy who becomes involved with a middle-aged ephebophile (Brian Cox) in L.I.E. (2001).[9] He then appeared in the television film Too Young to Be a Dad as a high school student whose life is disrupted when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. He appeared in The Emperor's Club in 2002 as Martin Blythe. In 2004, he played a small role as young Martin Asher in Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. Additionally, Dano starred in the sleeper hit The Girl Next Door, alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, and Chris Marquette. In 2005, he played supporting roles in The King and The Ballad of Jack and Rose.

He came to greater attention in 2006, when he played Dwayne, a voluntarily mute teenager as part of an ensemble in the comedic drama Little Miss Sunshine, which received critical acclaim and collective awards for its cast. He also had a supporting role in the 2006 film Fast Food Nation, based on the nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser. Dano had a dual role for the 2007 period film There Will Be Blood, which earned him positive reviews and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Texas Monthly said that his performance was "so electric that the movie sags whenever he's not around."[10] Peter Travers remarked "All praise to the baby-faced Dano...for bringing sly cunning and unexpected ferocity to Plainview's most formidable opponent."[11] Rolling Stone magazine included Dano in its Hot List for 2007, calling his performance style "Daniel Day-Lewis + Billy Crudup × Johnny Depp."[12]

Dano appeared in several additional Broadway productions including A Thousand Clowns at the Roundabout Theatre, and in the Ethan Hawke directorial debut Things We Want during its 2007 Off-Broadway run.

In 2008, he starred in Gigantic, a poorly-reviewed film about a man seeking to adopt a Chinese baby, co-starring Zooey Deschanel. He reunited with Brian Cox in 2009's Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film. He provided the voice of one of the creatures in the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are (2009).

2010s

He played a genius inventor in 2010's Knight and Day, an action thriller starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The same year he appeared in Meek's Cutoff, a well-reviewed historical drama. In 2011, he had a supporting role in the big-budget science fiction film Cowboys and Aliens.

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 partner) inexplicably appears as a real person; time-travel thriller Looper, in a supporting role with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis; and with Robert De Niro in Being Flynn as the film's writer Nick Flynn, about his relationship with his father. In 2013, Dano appeared in Steve McQueen's period drama biopic 12 Years a Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup. Dano portrayed John Tibeats, an overseer at the plantation Northup is sold to. The film was a massive critical success and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, among numerous other awards.

In 2014, Dano played a younger version of the Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson, with John Cusack as an older version of Wilson, in the biopic Love & Mercy, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

In 2015, Dano appeared with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the Italian comedy-drama Youth; Dano portrayed Jimmy Tree, an actor who is researching for an upcoming role but is frustrated that he is best-remembered by the public for a prior role as a robot. In January 2016, Dano appeared as Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's six-part adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.[13]

In fall 2016, he appeared in video as an onstage "stand-in" during the Nostalgic for the Present concert tour of Australian singer Sia, for her song "Bird Set Free."[14]

In July 2016, it was announced that Dano would make his directorial debut with the movie Wildlife, based on the 1990 novel of the same name, by Richard Ford.[15] The movie would be produced by June Pictures, and would star Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Dano stated, "I have always wanted to make films and have always known I would make films about family. I couldn't be happier to have such beautiful collaborators like Carey and Jake leading the way."[16] The film received critical acclaim upon its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. It also screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival and the Mill Valley Film Festival.[17] The film has earned a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Wildlife's portrait of a family in crisis is beautifully composed by director Paul Dano -- and brought brilliantly to life by a career-best performance from Carey Mulligan".[18]

In 2016, Dano played the role of Hank Thompson in Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan's absurdist black comedy film Swiss Army Man, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.[19] His character is a suicidal man stranded on an island, who befriends a farting corpse. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22, and opened in theaters on June 24. Although some viewers walked out of the film viewing due to its bizarre humor,[20] critics left generally favorable reviews of the film. Paul won the Critics' Choice Award twice in 2007, and was nominated in 2014 and 2016.

In 2018, he portrayed escaped inmate David Sweat in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora alongside Patricia Arquette and Benicio del Toro, for which he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series.

From December 27, 2018 to March 17, 2019, Dano starred in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West with Ethan Hawke at the Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater in New York.[21]

In October 2019, Dano was cast as The Riddler in Matt Reeves's 2022 superhero film The Batman.[22] Reeves wrote the role with Dano in mind after seeing Dano's portrayal of Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy.[23]

2020s

In April 2021, Paul Dano was cast in The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg's upcoming film based on Spielberg's own life. He will play Burt Fabelman, a character loosely based on Spielberg's father Arnold.[24][25] The same month, he joined Adam Sandler and Carey Mulligan in Netflix's Spaceman, an adaptation of Jaroslav Kalfař's novel Spaceman of Bohemia, directed by Johan Renck.[26] He is also set to star in AMC's animated drama Pantheon, and in a television series based on Mr. and Mrs. Smith for Amazon Prime Video, joining Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Michaela Coel and John Torturro.[27][28] In September 2022, it was announced that Dano would star in Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, an adaptation of Ben Mezrich's The Antisocial Network, alongside Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan and Pete Davidson.[29]

In March 2022, it was announced that Dano would make his comic debut writing Riddler: Year One for DC's Black Label imprint. The six issue limited series will be set in the continuity of The Batman and showcase Nashton's rise to becoming the Riddler.[30]

Personal life

Dano has been in a relationship with actress and screenwriter Zoe Kazan since 2007.[31][32] They have a daughter, born in August 2018.[33] They reside in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn.[34]

Dano is the vocalist and lead guitarist of the band Mook.[35] Filmmaker Bong Joon-ho said he wrote a part specifically for Dano in 2017's Okja after seeing one of his shows in Brooklyn.

Filmography

Film

Key

Denotes productions that have not yet been released

As an actor

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2000	The Newcomers	Joel	James Allen Bradley
2001	L.I.E.	Howie Blitzer	Michael Cuesta	Credited as Paul Franklin Dano
2002	The Emperor's Club	Martin Blythe	Michael Hoffman
2004	Taking Lives	Young Asher	D. J. Caruso
	The Girl Next Door	Klitz	Luke Greenfield
2005	The Ballad of Jack and Rose	Thaddius	Rebecca Miller
	The King	Paul	James Marsh
2006	Little Miss Sunshine	Dwayne	Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris
	Fast Food Nation	Brian	Richard Linklater
2007	Weapons	Chris	Adam Bhala Lough
	There Will Be Blood	Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday	Paul Thomas Anderson
2008	Explicit Ills	Rocco	Mark Webber
	Light and the Sufferer	Don ("Light")	Christopher Peditto
	Gigantic	Brian Weathersby	Matt Aselton
2009	Taking Woodstock	VW Guy	Ang Lee
	The Good Heart	Lucas	Dagur Kári
	Where the Wild Things Are	Alexander (voice)	Spike Jonze
2010	The Extra Man	Louis Ives	Shari Springer Berman Robert Pulcini
	Meek's Cutoff	Thomas Gately	Kelly Reichardt
	Knight and Day	Simon Feck	James Mangold
2011	Cowboys & Aliens	Percy Dolarhyde	Jon Favreau
2012	Being Flynn	Nick Flynn	Paul Weitz
	Ruby Sparks	Calvin Weir-Fields	Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris	Also executive producer
	Looper	Seth	Rian Johnson
	For Ellen	Joby	So Yong Kim	Also executive producer
2013	12 Years a Slave	John Tibeats	Steve McQueen
	Prisoners	Alex Jones	Denis Villeneuve
2014	Love & Mercy	Brian Wilson	Bill Pohlad
2015	Youth	Jimmy Tree	Paolo Sorrentino
2016	Swiss Army Man	Hank	Daniel Scheinert Daniel Kwan
2017	Okja	Jay	Bong Joon-ho
2021	The Guilty	Matthew Fontenot (voice)	Antoine Fuqua
2022	The Batman	Edward Nashton / Riddler	Matt Reeves
	The Fabelmans	Burt Fabelman	Steven Spielberg
2023	Spaceman		Johan Renck	Post-production
TBA	Dumb Money		Craig Gillespie	Filming[36]

As a director

Year	Title	Notes	Distributor	Ref.
2018	Wildlife	Co-writer and producer	IFC Films	[37]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Sensei Rainbow and the Dojo Kids	Paul	Television Film
1996	Smart Guy	Nicholas	Episode: "She Got Game"
2002	Too Young to Be a Dad	Matt Freeman	Television film
2002–2004	The Sopranos	Patrick Whalen	3 episodes
2016	War & Peace	Pierre Bezukhov	Miniseries (6 episodes)
2018	Escape at Dannemora	David Sweat	Miniseries (7 episodes)
2022	Saturday Night Live	Himself	Episode: "Zoë Kravitz/Rosalía"
	Pantheon	Caspian	Voice role

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Inherit the Wind	Howard	Royale Theatre
1997–1998	A Christmas Carol	Street Urchin	The Theater at Madison Square Garden
2007	Things We Want	Charles	Acorn Theatre[38]
2010–2011	A Free Man of Color	Meriwether Lewis	Vivian Beaumont Theater
2019	True West	Austin	American Airlines Theater

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Paul Dano at IMDb
• Paul Dano at The Good Heart Press Day

На других языках

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[de] Paul Dano

Paul Franklin Dano (* 19. Juni 1984 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Rock-Musiker.

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- [en] Paul Dano

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[es] Paul Dano

Paul Franklin Dano (Nueva York, 19 de junio de 1984) es un actor, guionista y director estadounidense. Ha trabajado, entre otras, en las películas There Will Be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks , Love & Mercy, Looper, 12 años de esclavitud, Prisoners, Youth y Okja. En 2018, debutó como director con Wildlife.[1]

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[ru] Дано, Пол

Пол Франклин Да́но (англ. Paul Franklin Dano; род. 19 июня 1984) — американский актёр, режиссёр, сценарист, продюсер и музыкант. Номинант на премии «Золотой глобус», «Эмми» и BAFTA.

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