Paul Dano

Q: Has Paul Dano won any awards?

Paul Dano has received several nominations for prestigious awards, including Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics' Choice Awards, though he has not yet won an Academy Award.

Q: What was Paul Dano's first film?

Paul Dano's first film role was in 'The Newcomers' in 2000, where he played a supporting character, marking the beginning of his acting career.

Q: What is Paul Dano's net worth?

Paul Dano's estimated net worth is around $10 million, accumulated through his successful acting career and directorial ventures.

Q: What is Paul Dano known for?

Paul Dano is known for his versatility as an actor, often portraying complex characters in independent films and blockbusters alike, including notable performances in 'Love & Mercy' and 'Okja.'

Q: Is Paul Dano also a director?

Yes, Paul Dano made his directorial debut with 'Wildlife' in 2018, which received positive reviews and showcased his talent behind the camera.

Q: What are some of Paul Dano's defining characteristics as an actor?

Paul Dano is characterized by his intense approach to roles, often immersing himself deeply in character work, which allows him to portray a wide range of emotions convincingly.

Q: Who are Paul Dano's parents?

Paul Dano's parents are Paul Dano Sr. and Gladys Dano, who have supported his career in the arts from a young age.

Known for

Swiss Army Man (2016)

IMDb 7.0 / 10

2016 / Comedy, Drama / 97 min

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

There Will Be Blood (2007)

IMDb 8.2 / 10

2007 / Drama / 158 min

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

Looper (2012)

IMDb 7.4 / 10

2012 / Action, Drama / 113 min

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When...

Name

Paul Dano

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

19 June 1984, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Spouses

Zoe Kazan (2018–present)

Children

1 daughter, Alma Day

Parents

Paul Dano Sr., Gladys Dano

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Sia: Nostalgic for the Present A bold experience that challenges the genre that trades pop poetry for pure art. Impressive voices, impressive choreography and iconic...	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	Movie The Wizard of the Kremlin In the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, rising KGB officer Vladimir Putin joins forces with master manipulator Vadim Baranov to reshape...	Vadim Baranov	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2025	TV The Studio Desperate for celebrity approval, the newly appointed head of a movie studio and his executive team at Continental Studios must...	Paul Dano	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2024	TV Fantasmas Julio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to find the...	Jeff	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2024	Movie Spaceman Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious...	Hanuš (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	TV Mr. & Mrs. Smith Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown...	Hot Neighbor	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2023	Movie Dumb Money Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up,...	Keith Gill	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2023	Movie A Journey Home: The Story of Sahaya Vietnam Forced to flee Vietnam as a child, Chung Truong went on to create a beautiful life and family in the...	Self - Narrator	Not rated
2023	Movie The Fabelmans: A Family in Film A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Fabelmans Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence,...	Burt Fabelman	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2022	TV Pantheon A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David,...	Caspian Keyes (voice)	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2022	Movie The Batman In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while...	The Riddler	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2021	Movie The Guilty A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from...	Matthew Fontenot (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2020	Movie The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.	Prior Walter	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2018	TV Escape at Dannemora The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive...	David Sweat	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2017	Movie Okja A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a...	Jay	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2016	Movie Swiss Army Man Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one...	Hank	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	TV War and Peace The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of...	Pierre Bezukhov	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2015	TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late...	Self	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2015	Movie Love & Mercy In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip...	Brian Wilson 1960s	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2015	Movie Youth Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no...	Jimmy Tree	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2015	TV Hot Ones The show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then interviews them...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	TV Variety Studio: Actors on Actors PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations...	Self	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	TV Late Night with Seth Meyers Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live's" longest serving anchor on the show's wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	TV The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in...	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	TV Off Camera with Sam Jones Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders,...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2013	Movie 12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold...	John Tibeats	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2013	Movie Prisoners After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in...	Alex Jones	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2013	TV Clique	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2012	Movie Looper In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When...	Seth	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2012	Movie Ruby Sparks Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing...	Calvin	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Being Flynn Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in...	Nick Flynn	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie For Ellen After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite...	Joby Taylor	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2012	Movie Flatscreen A bookclub meeting that ends up in a orgie.	Paul	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie Cowboys & Aliens A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around...	Percy Dolarhyde	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2011	Movie Meek's Cutoff A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.	Thomas Gately	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2010	Movie The Extra Man A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.	Louis Ives	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2010	Movie Knight and Day A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves –...	Simon Feck	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2009	Movie Where the Wild Things Are Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the...	Alexander (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	Movie The Good Heart Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment...	Lucas	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2009	Movie Taking Woodstock The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music...	VW Guy	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2008	Movie Light and the Sufferer Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave...	Don (AKA: Light)	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2008	Movie Gigantic Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with...	Brian	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Explicit Ills The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia	Rocco	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie There Will Be Blood Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man...	Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2007	Movie The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food Nation,'...	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Weapons Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small...	Chris	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2006	Movie Fast Food Nation A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.	Brian	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2006	Movie Little Miss Sunshine A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive...	Dwayne Hoover	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2006	Movie The King When Elvis Valderez is honourably discharged from the Navy, he heads to the small Texas town of Corpus Christi, where...	Paul	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie The Ballad of Jack and Rose Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While...	Thaddius	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2004	Movie The Girl Next Door Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous...	Klitz	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2004	Movie Taking Lives Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims,...	Young Asher	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	TV Jimmy Kimmel Live! Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2002	Movie The Emperor's Club William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a...	Martin Blythe	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2002	Movie Too Young to Be a Dad When 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption....	Matt Freeman	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2001	Movie L.I.E. With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and...	Howie Blitzer	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2000	Movie The Newcomers A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.	Joel	TMDB 3.8 / 10
1999	TV The Sopranos The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the...	Patrick Whaley	TMDB 8.7 / 10
1997	TV Smart Guy T.J. is a boy genius who gets bumped up from the fourth grade to high school. T.J. tries to adjust...	Nicholas	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1975	TV Saturday Night Live A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary...	Self - Cameo (uncredited)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1944	TV Golden Globe Awards An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press...	Self - Audience Member	TMDB 7.1 / 10
TBA	Movie Bunker When an architect accepts a morally ambiguous project — building a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire — his wife...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Possession A remake of Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 cult horror. Plot TBA.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Chaperones Three slacker friends are hired to transport a troubled teen across the country.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Vegas: A Love Story Unfolds beneath the glow of the Las Vegas Strip, where Dillon, a gifted graphic designer hustling for work, falls into...	Ryder	Not rated
TBA	TV Sensei Rainbow and the Dojo Kids Join Sensei Rainbow, the Dojo Kids, and Yin and Yang, their enchanted dragon friends in their karate adventure. Sing along,...	Paul	TMDB 4.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2024	Movie The Apprentice A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Wildlife 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Wildlife 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Wildlife 14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2012	Movie Ruby Sparks Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie For Ellen After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2008	Movie Gigantic Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.6 / 10
TBA	Movie Untitled Paul Dano Comedy Film Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being a high-concept, original comedy.	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Untitled Paul Dano Comedy Film Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being a high-concept, original comedy.	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Untitled Paul Dano Comedy Film Plot details are being kept under wraps other then it being a high-concept, original comedy.	Producer Production	Not rated

The Wizard of the Kremlin

2026 / TMDB 6.5

Spaceman

2024 / TMDB 6.7

Dumb Money

2023 / TMDB 6.7

A Journey Home: The Story of Sahaya Vietnam

2023

The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

2023 / TMDB 7.1

The Fabelmans

2022 / TMDB 7.6

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