James Franco filmography

He landed his breakthrough role in the comedy-drama television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000).

[10] Franco had six roles in 2012 none of which had much success except the crime-comedy film Spring Breakers, in which he played a gangster to highly positive reviews.

He starred in the action thriller Good People (2014), an adaptation of Marcus Sakey's 2008 novel of the same name.

[13] In the 2014 controversial satirical comedy The Interview, he was seen as a journalist instructed to assassinate a North Korean leader.

[15] In 2017, Franco directed and starred in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.