Dave Franco
|
|---|
 |
| DAVE FRANCO |
|
|
| Born |
David John Franco
June 12, 1985 (age 28)
Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Occupation |
Actor |
| Years active |
2006–present |
| Family |
Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco (d. 2011) (father)
Betsy Lou (née Verne) (mother)
Tom Franco (brother)
James Franco (brother) | | | | | | | | | |
Personal life
Franco was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Betsy (
née Verne), a poet, author and editor, and Doug Franco (1948–2011),
who met as students at
Stanford University.
His maternal grandmother, Mitzi Levine Verne, runs the Verne Art Gallery, a prominent art gallery in
Cleveland.
Franco's father was of
Portuguese and
Swedish descent
and Franco's mother is
Jewish (a descendant of immigrants from
Russia).
Dave grew up in California with his two brothers, Tom Franco and
James Franco.
In April 2012,
Shalom Life
ranked him and his brother, James, Number 2 on its list of “the 50 most
talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish men in the world."
Career
In 2006, Franco made his acting debut on
The CW Drama television series
7th Heaven. He has since appeared in television shows such as
Do Not Disturb and
Young Justice. Franco has also had noticeable roles in films such as
Superbad,
Charlie St. Cloud,
21 Jump Street,
Warm Bodies, and
The Shortcut. In May 2008, he was cast in The CW teen drama television series
Privileged.
The series centered on a live-in tutor for two spoiled heiresses in
Palm Beach. Franco was cast in an initial major recurring role. The
series premiered on September 9, 2008 to 3.1 million viewers. Ratings
continued to slip each week with the series sixth episode reaching 1.837
million viewers. The CW did not renew the series for a second season
due to low ratings.
In August 2009,
Variety announced Franco was cast in a regular role for the ninth season of the
ABC Sitcom series
Scrubs.
Franco portrayed the role of Cole Aaronson, a medical student, whose
family paid a large sum of money to Sacred Heart Hospital to receive an
internship. Franco went on to appear in all thirteen episodes of the
ninth season and received praise from critics for his performance. ABC
announced the series would not be renewed for a tenth season therefore
Franco would not reprise his role of Cole.
MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named him one of the Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011.
In August 2011, Franco starred in the 3D Horror Comedy film
Fright Night alongside
Colin Farrell and
Toni Collette.
The film is a remake of the 1985 film of the same name and follows a
teenage boy who finds out his neighbor is a vampire. Franco played the
role of popular high school student Mark. The film received positive
reviews from critics and went on to make over $41 million worldwide.
In May 2011, Franco starred in the
Columbia Pictures action comedy film,
21 Jump Street as Eric, a high school student and the lead dealer of the drug. The film was based on the
1987 television series
of the same name and was released in March 2012 to critical acclaim and
box office success. Franco has denied rumors he is involved with the
planned sequel.
In 2013, he co-starred in the zombie romance film
Warm Bodies, as Perry Kelvin. The film, an adaptation of the best-selling novel
Warm Bodies, followed a romance between a zombie and a human during a zombie apocalypse.
Also in the same year, Franco appeared alongside
Jesse Eisenberg,
Mark Ruffalo,
Morgan Freeman, and
Isla Fisher in the ensemble crime thriller film
Now You See Me. To promote the movie, he was interviewed on the
Bob Rivers Show,
based in Seattle, Washington. Rivers persuaded him to show the
card-throwing abilities he had learned; Franco expertly sliced half a
banana into a further half with his hotel card.
Filmography
Performer Profile : 
