Actor and musician Paul Franklin Dano is American. He started out on Broadway. He got more acclaim for his part as a disturbed kid in Little Miss Sunshine (2001), which earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance (2006). He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007 for his roles as identical twins in Paul Thomas Anderson’s historical drama There Will Be Blood.
Dano’s prominence grew further after receiving critical praise for his performances in Prisoners (2013), 12 Years a Slave (2013), and Love & Mercy (2014), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. In the year 2022, he portrayed The Riddler in The Batman and a loving father in The Fabelmans, the latter of which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
In 2018, Dano made his feature film directing debut with the drama Wildlife, which was co-written by him and his wife Zoe Kazan and was based on the novel by Richard Ford. Furthermore in 2018, he played a killer on death row in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he was nominated for an Outstanding Supporting Actor Primetime Emmy Award.
What is ‘Paul Dano’ doing now?
Paul Dano will play Burt Fabelman, a character roughly based on Steven Spielberg’s father Arnold, in the semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama The Fabelmans in April 2021. The movie was widely praised when it was released in 2022, and Dano’s portrayal of the character was praised by Pete Hammond of Deadline Hollywood and Stephanie Zacharek of Time, who included him in her list of the top 10 acting performances of the year. They called Dano’s portrayal of the character “the sum of all the things that so many men of that generation just didn’t know how to be; we also see a deep well of love, no less real for being left unexpressed.” Dano would subsequently be nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Critics’ Choice and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Furthermore, in April 2021, he starred with Carey Mulligan and Adam Sandler in the Netflix adaption of Jaroslav Kalfa’s Spaceman of Bohemia, Spaceman, which was helmed by Johan Renck. With Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Michaela Coel, and John Torturro, he will co-star in the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the AMC animated drama Pantheon. It was revealed in September 2022 that Dano will act with Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, and Pete Davidson in Craig Gillespie’s Stupid Money, a film adaption of Ben Mezrich’s The Antisocial Network.
It was reported in March 2022 that Dano will write The Riddler: Year One for DC’s Black Label brand. The six-issue limited series, which is based on The Batman’s continuity, charts Nashton’s development as the Riddler.