Paul Dano

Paul Dano

Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor. He began his career on Broadway before making his film debut in The Newcomers (2000). He won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance for his role in L.I.E. (2001) and received accolades for his role as Dwayne Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006). For his dual roles as Paul and Eli Sunday in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007), he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Dano has also received accolades for roles such as John Tibeats in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Alex Jones in Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners (2013). His acting portrayal of musician Brian Wilson in Love & Mercy (2014) earned him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Dano made his directorial debut with the drama film Wildlife (2018), based on the novel by Richard Ford. He co-wrote the screenplay with his partner Zoe Kazan. In 2018, he starred in the Showtime miniseries Escape at Dannemora, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. In 2022, he played Edward Nashton / The Riddler in The Batman.

  • Popularity : 22.801
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1984-06-19
  • Place of Birth : New York City, New York, USA
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Paul Dano Movies

  • 2006
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    Little Miss Sunshine

    Little Miss Sunshine

    7.7 2006 HD

    A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

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  • 2004
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    The Girl Next Door

    The Girl Next Door

    6.718 2004 HD

    Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor,...

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  • 2008
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    Explicit Ills

    Explicit Ills

    6.5 2008 HD

    The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia

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  • 2009
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    The Good Heart

    The Good Heart

    6.2 2009 HD

    Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is...

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  • 2007
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    There Will Be Blood

    There Will Be Blood

    8.1 2007 HD

    Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man...

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  • 2009
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    Taking Woodstock

    Taking Woodstock

    6.2 2009 HD

    The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the...

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  • 2008
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    Gigantic

    Gigantic

    5.656 2008 HD

    Young mattress salesman Brian decides to adopt a baby from China but is distracted when he forms a relationship with quirky, wealthy Harriet whom he...

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  • 2007
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    Weapons

    Weapons

    5.063 2007 HD

    Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and...

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  • 2010
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    Knight and Day

    Knight and Day

    6.217 2010 HD

    A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem....

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  • 2009
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    Where the Wild Things Are

    Where the Wild Things Are

    6.497 2009 HD

    Max imagines running away from his mom and sailing to a far-off land where large talking beasts—Ira, Carol, Douglas, the Bull, Judith and...

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  • 2005
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    The Ballad of Jack and Rose

    The Ballad of Jack and Rose

    6.2 2005 HD

    Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against...

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  • 2010
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    The Extra Man

    The Extra Man

    5.74 2010 HD

    A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

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  • 2001
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    L.I.E.

    L.I.E.

    6.7 2001 HD

    With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing...

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  • 2011
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    Cowboys & Aliens

    Cowboys & Aliens

    5.618 2011 HD

    A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of...

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  • 2012
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    For Ellen

    For Ellen

    5.5 2012 HD

    After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite...

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  • 2011
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    Meek's Cutoff

    Meek's Cutoff

    6.5 2011 HD

    A group of settlers traveling through the Oregon High Desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

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  • 2013
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    12 Years a Slave

    12 Years a Slave

    7.938 2013 HD

    In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as...

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  • 2012
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    Looper

    Looper

    6.887 2012 HD

    In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send...

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  • 2012
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    Being Flynn

    Being Flynn

    6.136 2012 HD

    Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick...

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  • 2012
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    Ruby Sparks

    Ruby Sparks

    7.107 2012 HD

    Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic...

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  • 2002
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    Too Young to Be a Dad

    Too Young to Be a Dad

    7.4 2002 HD

    When 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the...

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  • 2013
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    Prisoners

    Prisoners

    8.1 2013 HD

    Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as...

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  • 2000
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    The Newcomers

    The Newcomers

    3.7 2000 HD

    A 12-year-old boy and his family start life over in a new town.

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  • 2007
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    The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

    The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

    1 2007 HD

    A full-length documentary chronicling filmmaker Richard Linklater and author Eric Schlosser throughout their journey making the movie 'Fast Food...

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  • 2008
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    Light and the Sufferer

    Light and the Sufferer

    4.6 2008 HD

    Realism and fantasy collide in Jonathan Lethem's genre-bending coming-of-age story, which follows two estranged brothers as they try to leave New...

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  • 2015
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    Love & Mercy

    Love & Mercy

    7.083 2015 HD

    In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the...

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  • 2023
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    The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

    The Fabelmans: A Family in Film

    7.2 2023 HD

    A fascinating behind-the-scenes special about Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans."

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  • 2023
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    Dumb Money

    Dumb Money

    6.7 2023 HD

    Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives...

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  • 2006
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    The King

    The King

    6.1 2006 HD

    A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian...

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  • 2004
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    Taking Lives

    Taking Lives

    6.4 2004 HD

    Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana...

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  • 2015
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    Youth

    Youth

    6.9 2015 HD

    Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical...

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  • 2016
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    Swiss Army Man

    Swiss Army Man

    6.925 2016 HD

    Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes...

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  • 1970
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    The Wizard of the Kremlin

    The Wizard of the Kremlin

    1 1970 HD

    Russia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young...

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  • 2022
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    Vengeance in the Making

    Vengeance in the Making

    7 2022 HD

    A documentary featured on the Blu-Ray of the 2022 film The Batman, featuring interviews with cast and crew.

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  • 2002
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    The Emperor's Club

    The Emperor's Club

    7.12 2002 HD

    William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new...

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  • 2017
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    Okja

    Okja

    7.4 2017 HD

    A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.

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  • 2006
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    Fast Food Nation

    Fast Food Nation

    6.1 2006 HD

    A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.

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  • 2022
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    The Batman

    The Batman

    7.7 2022 HD

    In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as...

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  • 2012
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    Flatscreen

    Flatscreen

    7.5 2012 HD

    A bookclub meeting that ends up in a orgie.

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  • 2021
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    The Guilty

    The Guilty

    6.422 2021 HD

    A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

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  • 2020
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    The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

    The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

    10 2020 HD

    An all-star livestream benefit performance of scenes from Angels in America in support of amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19.

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  • 2022
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    The Fabelmans

    The Fabelmans

    7.6 2022 HD

    Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a...

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  • 2024
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    Spaceman

    Spaceman

    6.758 2024 HD

    Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

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  • 2012
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    For Ellen

    For Ellen

    5.5 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Ruby Sparks

    Ruby Sparks

    7.107 2012 HD

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  • 2018
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    Wildlife

    Wildlife

    6.7 2018 HD

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  • 2018
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    Wildlife

    Wildlife

    6.7 2018 HD

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  • 2008
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    Gigantic

    Gigantic

    5.656 2008 HD

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  • 2018
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    Wildlife

    Wildlife

    6.7 2018 HD

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  • 2024
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    The Apprentice

    The Apprentice

    6.9 2024 HD

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  • 2016
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    War and Peace

    War and Peace

    7.599 2016 HD

    A story that revolves around five aristocratic families, set during the reign of Alexander I, and centered on the love triangle between Natasha...

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  • 2015
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    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    5.384 2015 HD

    Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and...

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  • 2015
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    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    The Late Late Show with James Corden

    5.384 2015 HD

    Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night talk show that interviews celebrities and...

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  • 2014
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    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

    5.8 2014 HD

    After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program...

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  • 2018
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    Escape at Dannemora

    Escape at Dannemora

    7.5 2018 HD

    The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted...

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  • 1999
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    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos

    8.6 1999 HD

    The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements...

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  • 2014
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    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

    5.479 2014 HD

    Seth Meyers, who is "Saturday Night Live’s" longest serving anchor on the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," takes over as host of...

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  • 2022
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    Pantheon

    Pantheon

    7.9 2022 HD

    A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness...

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  • 1970
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    Sensei Rainbow and the Dojo Kids

    Sensei Rainbow and the Dojo Kids

    4 1970 HD

    Join Sensei Rainbow, the Dojo Kids, and Yin and Yang, their enchanted dragon friends in their karate adventure. Sing along, dance and train the...

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  • 1997
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    Smart Guy

    Smart Guy

    7.6 1997 HD

    T.J. is a boy genius who gets bumped up from the fourth grade to high school. T.J. tries to adjust to his new life, but he shares some classes with...

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  • 2003
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    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    5.503 2003 HD

    Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

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  • 2014
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    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    4.4 2014 HD

    PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors....

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  • 2024
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    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith

    6.512 2024 HD

    Meet the Smiths: two lonely strangers, John and Jane, who have given up their lives and identities to be thrown together as partners – both in...

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  • 2015
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    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    6.6 2015 HD

    Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an...

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  • 1975
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    Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night Live

    6.948 1975 HD

    A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture...

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  • 2015
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    Hot Ones

    Hot Ones

    7.4 2015 HD

    The show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then interviews them while they're struggling through the...

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  • 2024
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    Fantasmas

    Fantasmas

    6.8 2024 HD

    Julio Torres spins a fantastical tale of when he lost a gold oyster earring. In his search to find the precious object, Julio reflects on the offbeat...

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  • 2014
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    Off Camera with Sam Jones

    Off Camera with Sam Jones

    4 2014 HD

    Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders, for...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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