Paul Dano

Paul Dano

1984-06-19 New York City, New York, USA 50 Credits

Biography

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...

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The Wizard of the Kremlin

The Wizard of the Kremlin

2025

as Vadim Baranov

Acting

Russia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young artist-turned...

The Apprentice

The Apprentice

2024

Thanks

6.9

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat...

Spaceman

Spaceman

2024

as Hanuš (voice)

6.7
Acting

Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Dumb Money

Dumb Money

2023

as Keith Gill

6.7
Acting

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...

A Journey Home: The Story of Sahaya Vietnam

A Journey Home: The Story of Sahaya Vietnam

2023

as Self - Narrator

Acting

Forced to flee Vietnam as a child, Chung Truong went on to create a beautiful life and family in the US. But as career and family was settling in, an ...

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

2023

as Self

7.2
Acting

A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."

The Fabelmans

The Fabelmans

2022

as Burt Fabelman

7.6
Acting

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shatte...

VENGEANCE IN THE MAKING

VENGEANCE IN THE MAKING

2022

as Self

10.0
Acting

Documentary footage from The Batman (2022) Blu Ray.

The Batman

The Batman

2022

as The Riddler

7.7
Acting

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 Guilty

The Guilty

2021

as Matthew Fontenot (voice)

6.4
Acting

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

2020

as Prior Walter

10.0
Acting

An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

Wildlife

Wildlife

2018

Screenplay, Director, Producer

6.6
Writing Directing Producing

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 fores...

Okja

Okja

2017

as Jay

7.4
Acting

A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

Swiss Army Man

Swiss Army Man

2016

as Hank

6.9
Acting

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashor...

Love & Mercy

Love & Mercy

2015

as Brian Wilson 1960s

7.1
Acting

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the s...

Youth

Youth

2015

as Jimmy Tree

6.9
Acting

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical car...

12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

2013

as John Tibeats

7.9
Acting

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...

Prisoners

Prisoners

2013

as Alex Jones

8.1
Acting

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minute...

Looper

Looper

2012

as Seth

6.9
Acting

In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send th...

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks

2012

as Calvin

7.1
Acting

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. ...

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks

2012

Executive Producer

7.1
Producing

Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. ...

Being Flynn

Being Flynn

2012

as Nick Flynn

6.2
Acting

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick w...

For Ellen

For Ellen

2012

as Joby Taylor

5.4
Acting

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, ...

For Ellen

For Ellen

2012

Executive Producer

5.4
Producing

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, ...

Flatscreen

Flatscreen

2012

as Paul

7.5
Acting

A bookclub meeting that ends up in a orgie.

Cowboys & Aliens

Cowboys & Aliens

2011

as Percy Dolarhyde

5.6
Acting

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterio...

Meek's Cutoff

Meek's Cutoff

2011

as Thomas Gately

6.5
Acting

A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

The Extra Man

The Extra Man

2010

as Louis Ives

5.8
Acting

A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

Knight and Day

Knight and Day

2010

as Simon Feck

6.2
Acting

A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting al...

Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

2009

as Alexander (voice)

6.5
Acting

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—cr...

The Good Heart

The Good Heart

2009

as Lucas

6.3
Acting

Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determ...

Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock

2009

as VW Guy

6.2
Acting

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 happe...

Gigantic

Gigantic

2008

as Brian

5.7
Acting

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he m...

Light and the Sufferer

Light and the Sufferer

2008

as Don (AKA: Light)

4.0
Acting

Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New York...

Gigantic

Gigantic

2008

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he m...

Explicit Ills

Explicit Ills

2008

as Rocco

6.4
Acting

The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia

There Will Be Blood

There Will Be Blood

2007

as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday

8.1
Acting

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image...

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

2007

as Self

Acting

A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Natio...

Weapons

Weapons

2007

as Chris

4.6
Acting

Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and trag...

Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation

2006

as Brian

6.1
Acting

A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

Little Miss Sunshine

Little Miss Sunshine

2006

as Dwayne Hoover

7.7
Acting

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.

The King

The King

2006

as Paul

6.1
Acting

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian commun...

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

2005

as Thaddius

6.1
Acting

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against develope...

The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door

2004

as Klitz

6.7
Acting

Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, D...

Taking Lives

Taking Lives

2004

as Young Asher

6.4
Acting

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scot...

The Emperor's Club

The Emperor's Club

2002

as Martin Blythe

7.1
Acting

William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new stud...

Too Young to Be a Dad

Too Young to Be a Dad

2002

as Matt Freeman

7.1
Acting

When 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the ...

L.I.E.

L.I.E.

2001

as Howie Blitzer

6.8
Acting

With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing thei...

The Newcomers

The Newcomers

2000

as Joel

3.5
Acting

A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.

Untitled Paul Dano Comedy Film

N/A

Writer, Director, Producer

Writing Directing Producing

Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being a high-concept, original comedy.