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Paul Dano
Paul Franklin Dano is an American actor and filmmaker. His work includes both independent film and blockbusters, and his accolades include nominations for a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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entertainment · American actor (born 1984) · actor · film producer · screenwriter · film director · also Paul Dano, Paul Franklin Dano, Dano
Born 19 June 1984 · Q343616
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2026· 5 entries
The Guardian: Paul Dano: ‘Nobody needs to know about my high-school band!’
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The Guardian: Post your questions for Paul Dano
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The Guardian: Paul Dano reacts to Tarantino criticism: ‘I was incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me’
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The Guardian: ‘We are living in an age of cruelty’: George Clooney rebukes Tarantino for insulting Paul Dano
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: A stiff dose of ‘weak sauce’: Paul Dano’s best films – ranked!
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A picture authentically shows film director Quentin Tarantino glaring at actor Paul Dano during a red-carpet event.” Fake.
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The Guardian: Daniel Day-Lewis defends Paul Dano after Tarantino criticism
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The Guardian: Quentin Tarantino has strong opinions about Paul Dano and none of them are right | Sian Cain
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2023· 2 entries
The Guardian: Dumb Money review – Paul Dano excels in fun retelling of the GameStop stock craze
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The Guardian: ‘As a kid, I’d cry every day seeing homeless people’: Paul Dano on money, fatherhood and being shaved by Brian Cox
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2022· 3 entries
To universal acclaim; with Dano's performance earning praise from Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood describing him as "terrific as the genuinely nice and loving father torn between following his own career and caring fo
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Played The Riddler in The Batman and a fictionalized version of Arnold Spielberg in The Fabelmans, receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for the latter
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Dano starred in AMC's animated drama Pantheon
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Can anyone solve the puzzle of Paul Dano’s Riddler in The Batman?
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2018· 2 entries
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 Sup
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Starred as a convicted murderer in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor
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2016· 1 entry
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
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2015· 1 entry
Dano appeared with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the Italian comedy-drama Youth; Dano portrayed Jimmy Tree, an actor doing research for an upcoming role who is frustrated to be best known for a previous role as a ro
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2014· 1 entry
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
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2013· 1 entry
Dano appeared in Steve McQueen's period-drama biopic 12 Years a Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup
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2011· 1 entry
Had a supporting role in the big-budget science fiction film Cowboys and Aliens
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actor for There Will Be Blood (2008).
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Starred in Gigantic, a poorly reviewed film about a man seeking to adopt a Chinese baby, co-starring Zooey Deschanel
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for Little Miss Sunshine (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
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
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2005· 1 entry
Played supporting roles in The King and The Ballad of Jack and Rose
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2004· 1 entry
Played a small role as the young Martin Asher in Taking Lives, with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke
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2002· 2 entries
And attended Eugene Lang College in New York City
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Studied at Wilton High School (2002).
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1996· 1 entry
Dano portrayed The Little Boy (Edgar) in the world premiere of Terrence McNally's musical Ragtime at the Ford Center of the Performing Arts (now the Meridian Arts Centre) in Toronto
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1984· 2 entries
Born 1984-06-19.
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In New York City, the son of a homemaker and a financial advisor
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