Paul Dano
ActingBorn
June 19, 1984
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
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 …
Known For
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Sopranos
1999
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Hot Ones
2015
Filmography
The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026
Spaceman
2024
Dumb Money
2023
A Journey Home: The Story of Sahaya Vietnam
2023
The Fabelmans: A Family in Film
2023
The Fabelmans
2022
The Batman
2022
The Guilty
2021
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
2020
Okja
2017
Swiss Army Man
2016
Love & Mercy
2015
Youth
2015
12 Years a Slave
2013
Prisoners
2013
Looper
2012
Ruby Sparks
2012
Being Flynn
2012
For Ellen
2012
Flatscreen
2012
Cowboys & Aliens
2011
Meek's Cutoff
2011
The Extra Man
2010
Knight and Day
2010
Where the Wild Things Are
2009
The Good Heart
2009
Taking Woodstock
2009
Gigantic
2008
Light and the Sufferer
2008
Explicit Ills
2008
There Will Be Blood
2007
The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'
2007
Weapons
2007
Fast Food Nation
2006
Little Miss Sunshine
2006
The King
2006
The Ballad of Jack and Rose
2005
The Girl Next Door
2004
Taking Lives
2004
The Emperor's Club
2002
Too Young to Be a Dad
2002
L.I.E.
2001
The Newcomers
2000
The Chaperones
Bunker
Vegas: A Love Story
The Studio
2025
Fantasmas
2024
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
2024
Pantheon
2022
Escape at Dannemora
2018
War and Peace
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Hot Ones
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Sopranos
1999
Smart Guy
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Sensei Rainbow and the Dojo Kids