James Franco

Name: James Edward Franco

Birthdate: April 19, 1978
Birthplace: Palo Alto, California.

Facts to Remember:

• An American actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, author, and painter. 

• Began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the short-lived television series Freaks and Geeks and starring in several teen films.  

 

• He played the title role in Mark Rydell's  television biographical film James Dean in 2001, which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film.

• His mother, Betsy Lou (née Verne), is a poet, author, and editor 

• His father, Douglas Eugene Franco, runs a non-profit agency and a shipping container company; the two met as students at Stanford University.

• His maternal grandmother, Mitzi Levine Verne, owns the Verne Art Gallery, a prominent art gallery in Cleveland. 

• Franco's father is of Portuguese and Swedish descent and Franco's mother is Jewish, a descendant of immigrants from Russia.

• Franco grew up in California with his two younger brothers, Tom and Dave.

• Talented at mathematics, he interned at Lockheed Martin. 

 

• Graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996, where he acted in plays and was voted by his senior class as the person with the "best smile".

• He enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as an English major, but dropped out after his freshman year against his parents' wishes to pursue a career as an actor, taking acting lessons with Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West.

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          We started as friends across the road             

It almost died but still it survived and somehow some way

it just keeps on finding it's way,

I know we have a long journey, hope you wont get tired of me.

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