Paul Dano
| Paul Dano | |
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 Dano at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born | Paul Franklin Dano (1984-06-19) June 19, 1984 New York City, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1998–present |
| Partner(s) | Zoe Kazan (2007–present) |
| Children | 1 |
Paul Franklin Dano (/ˈdeɪnoʊ/;[1] born June 19, 1984)[2] is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and musician.
Dano started 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. (2002) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014), earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor.
Dano made his directorial debut with the 2018 drama film Wildlife, based on the novel by Richard Ford and starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Acting
2.2 Directing
2.3 Music
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
5 Stage
6 References
7 External links
Early life
Dano was born in New York City, New York, the son of Gladys (née Pipp) and Paul A. Dano. He has a younger sister named Sarah.[3][4][5] Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School, while his father worked as a businessman in New York.[6][7]
While he was a child, Dano's family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, finally settling in Wilton, Connecticut.[6] Dano continued his education there at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and attending Eugene Lang College in New York City.[6] He was involved in community theater, and while performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York.[6]
Career
Acting
Dano in December 2007
At age 10, Dano was noted for roles in classical plays on Broadway, making his debut at age 12 in the John Tillinger-directed revival of Inherit the Wind along with George C. Scott and Charles Durning.[8] He appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and a minor role in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers, as well playing the part of Patrick Whalen, in a few episodes of The Sopranos in season 4.
Dano acted in his first major film role when he was 16, playing the character of Howie Blitzer, a teenage boy who becomes involved with a middle-aged ephebophile, played by Brian Cox, in L.I.E. (2001).[9] He then appeared in the TV movie Too Young to Be a Dad as a high school student whose life is disrupted when his girlfriend becomes pregnant. In 2004 he played a small role as young Martin Asher in Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke. In 2005, he played supporting roles in The King with Gael Garcia Bernal, and The Ballad of Jack and Rose with Daniel Day-Lewis.
He came to greater attention in 2006, when he played as 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. Dano's work with Daniel Day-Lewis led to a dual role opposite him in his next film, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, playing identical twin brothers Eli and Paul Sunday. This earned him a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and brought him positive reviews, with Texas Monthly saying that his performance was "so electric that the movie sags whenever he's not around."[10] and Peter Travers remarking "All praise to the baby-faced Dano...for bringing sly cunning and unexpected ferocity to Plainview's most formidable opponent."[11]Rolling Stone magazine included Dano in its Hot List for 2007, calling his performance style "Daniel Day-Lewis + Billy Crudup × Johnny Depp."[12]
Dano appeared in several additional Broadway productions including A Thousand Clowns at the Roundabout Theatre, and in the Ethan Hawke directorial debut Things We Want during its 2007 Off-Broadway run.
In 2008, he starred in Gigantic, a poorly-reviewed film about a man seeking to adopt a Chinese baby, co-starring Zooey Deschanel. He reunited with Brian Cox in 2009's Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film. He provided the voice of one of the creatures in the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. He played a genius inventor in 2010's Knight and Day, an action thriller starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The same year he appeared in Meek's Cutoff, a well-reviewed historical drama. In 2011, he had a supporting role in the big-budget science fiction film Cowboys and Aliens.
Dano appeared in three feature films in 2012: Ruby Sparks, as a writer whose fictional character (played by Zoe Kazan, the film's writer and Dano's girlfriend) inexplicably appears as a real person; time-travel thriller Looper, in a supporting role with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis; and with Robert De Niro in Being Flynn as the film's writer Nick Flynn, about his relationship with his father. In 2014, 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 Actor.
In 2015 Dano appeared with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the Italian comedy-drama Youth; Dano portrayed Jimmy Tree, an actor who is researching for an upcoming role but is frustrated that he is best-remembered by the public for a prior role as a robot. In January 2016, Dano appeared as Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's six-part adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.[13]
In the Autumn of 2016, he appeared in video as an onstage "stand-in" during the Nostalgia For the Present concert tour of Australian singer Sia Furler for her song, "Bird Set Free."[14]
Directing
In July 2016, it was announced that Dano would make his directorial debut with the movie Wildlife, based on the 1990 novel of the same name, by Richard Ford.[15] The movie would be produced by June Pictures, and would star Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal. Dano stated, "I have always wanted to make films and have always known I would make films about family. I couldn't be happier to have such beautiful collaborators like Carey and Jake leading the way."[16]
Music
Dano is the vocalist and lead guitarist of the band Mook.[17]
Personal life
Dano has been in a relationship with actress and screenwriter Zoe Kazan since 2007.[18][19] They have a daughter, born in August 2018.[20]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | The Newcomers | Joel | James Allen Bradley | |
| 2001 | L.I.E. | Howie Blitzer | Michael Cuesta | Directors' Week Award for Best Actor Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film Stockholm International Film Festival Award for Best Actor |
| 2002 | The Emperor's Club | Martin Blythe | Michael Hoffman | |
| 2004 | The Girl Next Door | Klitz | Luke Greenfield | |
Taking Lives | Young Asher | D. J. Caruso | ||
| 2005 | The Ballad of Jack and Rose | Thaddius | Rebecca Miller | |
The King | Paul | James Marsh | ||
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine | Dwayne | Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris | Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Young Performer Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated — Empire Award for Best Male Newcomer Nominated — Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male |
Fast Food Nation | Brian | Richard Linklater | ||
| 2007 | Weapons | Chris | Adam Bhala Lough | |
There Will Be Blood | Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday | Paul Thomas Anderson | Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — International Online Cinema Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Village Voice Film Poll Award for Best Supporting Actor | |
| 2008 | Explicit Ills | Rocco | Mark Webber | |
Light and the Sufferer | Don ("Light") | Christopher Peditto | ||
Gigantic | Brian Weathersby | Matt Aselton | ||
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | VW Guy | Ang Lee | |
The Good Heart | Lucas | Dagur Kári | ||
Where the Wild Things Are | Alexander | Spike Jonze | Voice | |
| 2010 | The Extra Man | Louis Ives | Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini | |
Meek's Cutoff | Thomas Gately | Kelly Reichardt | ||
Knight and Day | Simon Feck | James Mangold | ||
| 2011 | Cowboys & Aliens | Percy Dolarhyde | Jon Favreau | |
| 2012 | Being Flynn | Nick Flynn | Paul Weitz | |
Ruby Sparks | Calvin Weir-Fields | Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris | ||
Looper | Seth | Rian Johnson | ||
For Ellen | Joby | So Yong Kim | ||
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | John Tibeats | Steve McQueen | Black Reel Award for Best Ensemble Boston Online Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble Nominated — Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Acting Ensemble Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Nominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
Prisoners | Alex Jones | Denis Villeneuve | National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Ensemble | |
| 2014 | Love & Mercy | Brian Wilson | Bill Pohlad | Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Florida Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor Gotham Award for Best Actor Kermode Award for Best Actor New York Film Critics Online Award for Best Actor San Francisco Film Critics Circle for Best Actor Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male Nominated — London Film Critics' Circle Award for Actor of the Year Nominated — North Carolina Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated — Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated — St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — San Francisco Film Critics Circle for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 2015 | Youth | Jimmy Tree | Paolo Sorrentino | |
| 2016 | Swiss Army Man | Hank | Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan | |
| 2017 | Okja | Jay | Bong Joon-ho | |
| 2018 | Wildlife | Himself | Co-writer and producer[21] |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Smart Guy | Nicholas | Episode: "She Got Game" |
| 2002 | Too Young to Be a Dad | Matt Freeman | Television film |
| 2002–2004 | The Sopranos | Patrick Whalen | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Codes of Conduct | Jared Rotmensen | Pilot |
| 2016 | War & Peace | Pierre Bezukhov | 6 episodes |
| 2018 | Escape at Dannemora | David Sweat | 7 episodes |
Stage
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Inherit the Wind | Howard | Royale Theatre |
| 1997–98 | A Christmas Carol | Street Urchin | The Theater at Madison Square Garden |
| 2007 | Things We Want | Charles | Acorn Theatre[22] |
| 2010–11 | A Free Man of Color | Meriwether Lewis | Vivian Beaumont Theater |
References
^ "'Wildlife' | Anatomy of a Scene". The New York Times. November 1, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Paul Dano - Biography". The New York Times. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
^ Grandjean, Pat, "First People" column, item titled "The Buzz", Connecticut Magazine, November 2006, p. 17.
^ "Spotlight again on Wilton's Paul Dano - Thehour.com: Norwalk". Thehour.com. March 5, 2008. Archived from the original on February 26, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
^ "'Ruby Sparks' Paul Dano chills out in Pennsylvania - tribunedigital-mcall". Articles.mcall.com. 2012-07-26. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
^ abcd MacEachern, Frank. "Spotlight again on Wilton's Paul Dano". Wilton Villager.
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^ "Fair Game – Paul Dano". Public Radio International.
^ Ryzik, Melena (April 2, 2009). "Chasing Stardom, in No Particular Rush". New York Times. Retrieved May 22, 2010.
^ Blunt, Emily. "Stephen Ryder Tells A Lie". Blunt Review. Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
^ Kelly, Christopher. "Crude Truth". Texas Monthly. 35 (12):68–70. December 2007.
^ Travers, Peter. "There Will Be Blood." Rolling Stone. (1044):70. 2008-01-24
^ Savage, Lesley (2007-10-18), "THE NEXT GENERATION". Rolling Stone. (1037):76
^ "BBC - BBC One announces cast for epic new event drama War and Peace - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
^ Stevenson, Jane. "Crowd eats up pop star Sia's minimalistic show". Torontosun.com. Retrieved 6 November 2016.
^ McNary, Dave (29 July 2016). "Paul Dano to Make Directorial Debut With Indie Drama 'Wildlife'". Variety. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
^ Pedersen, Erik (23 September 2016). "Jake Gyllenhaal & Carey Mulligan Star In 'Wildlife', Paul Dano's Directing Debut". Deadline. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
^ Lee, Jinnie (November 27, 2007). "Meet Mook". Nylon Magazine. Archived from the original on September 16, 2011.
^ "Actual Couples Explore a Fantasy, the Aesthetic Sort". The New York Times. July 20, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
^ "Love and Mercy's Paul Dano relates to Brian Wilson's tortured genius". The Sydney Morning Herald. June 4, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
^ "Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan Welcome a Daughter". People. October 25, 2018.
^ Pedersen, Erik. "Jake Gyllenhaal & Carey Mulligan Star In 'Wildlife', Paul Dano's Directing Debut". deadline. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ "A Boys' Guide to Narcotizing the Pain". The New York Times. November 8, 2007. Retrieved July 3, 2015.
External links
Paul Dano on IMDb- Paul Dano at The Good Heart Press Day
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