Paul Dano played The Riddler in The Batman and a caring father in The Fabelmans, receiving a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for the latter.
31 Facts About Paul Dano
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Paul Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife, based on the novel by Richard Ford; he co-wrote its screenplay with his wife Zoe Kazan.
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Paul Dano spent the first few years of his childhood in New York City and initially attended the Browning School.
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Paul Dano continued his education at Wilton High School, graduating in 2002 and attending Eugene Lang College in New York City.
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Paul Dano was involved in community theater, and while he was performing in New Canaan, his parents were encouraged to take him to New York.
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Paul Dano appeared in an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy and had a minor role in the 2000 family drama The Newcomers.
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Paul Dano played the part of Patrick Whalen in several episodes of The Sopranos.
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Paul Dano then appeared in the television film Too Young to Be a Dad as a high school student whose life is disrupted when his girlfriend becomes pregnant.
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Paul Dano appeared in The Emperor's Club in 2002 as Martin Blythe.
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Additionally, Paul Dano starred in the sleeper hit The Girl Next Door, alongside Elisha Cuthbert, Emile Hirsch, and Chris Marquette.
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Paul Dano came to greater attention in 2006, when he played 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.
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Paul Dano had a supporting role in the 2006 film Fast Food Nation, based on the nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser.
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Paul Dano had a dual role for the 2007 period film There Will Be Blood, which earned him positive reviews and a BAFTA nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
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Paul 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.
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Paul Dano reunited with Brian Cox in 2009's Good Heart, a low-budget English-language Icelandic film.
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Paul Dano provided the voice of one of the creatures in the film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are.
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Paul Dano played a genius inventor in 2010's Knight and Day, an action thriller starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
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Paul Dano appeared in three feature films in 2012: Ruby Sparks, as a writer whose fictional character 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.
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In 2013, Paul Dano appeared in Steve McQueen's period drama biopic 12 Years a Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup.
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Paul Dano portrayed John Tibeats, an overseer at the plantation Northup is sold to.
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In 2015, Paul Dano appeared with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel in the Italian comedy-drama Youth; Paul 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.
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In January 2016, Paul Dano appeared as Pierre Bezukhov in the BBC's six-part adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.
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In July 2016, it was announced that Paul Dano would make his directorial debut with the movie Wildlife, based on the 1990 novel of the same name, by Richard Ford.
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In 2016, Paul Dano played the role of Hank Thompson in Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan's absurdist black comedy film Swiss Army Man, alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
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Paul Dano's character is a suicidal man stranded on an island, who befriends a farting corpse.
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Paul Dano won the Critics' Choice Award twice in 2007, and was nominated in 2014 and 2016.
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From December 27,2018 to March 17,2019, Paul Dano starred in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's True West with Ethan Hawke at the Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater in New York.
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In October 2019, Paul Dano was cast as The Riddler in Matt Reeves's 2022 superhero film The Batman.
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In March 2022, it was announced that Paul Dano would make his comic debut writing The Riddler: Year One for DC's Black Label imprint.
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Paul Dano has been in a relationship with actress and screenwriter Zoe Kazan since 2007.
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Paul Dano is the vocalist and lead guitarist of the band Mook.