Filmography: Paul Dano
February 18, 2012 by Lance Carter
Filed under Actor Biographies
Paul Dano is one of today’s most acclaimed young actors, having made his mark on-screen and on stage.
His breakthrough performance was in the lead role of Michael Cuesta’s L.I.E., in which he starred opposite Brian Cox and for which he earned an Independent Spirit Award.
Mr. Dano was again an Independent Spirit Award nominee for the sleeper hit Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, for which he also shared in the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s ensemble honors with his fellow actors Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, and Greg Kinnear.
The following year, he earned a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his dual role opposite Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis in Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Read more
