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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.
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Franklin "Foggy" Nelson
for Franklin "Foggy" Nelson in Daredevil
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# Daredevil Darkness is his domain. A blind lawyer navigates Hell's Kitchen by touch and echolocation, his senses honed to lethal precision. By day, Matt Murdock defends the forgotten in courtrooms that reek of corruption. By night, he becomes something else—a vigilante bound by a code that grows more fragile with each broken bone, each spilled drop of blood. The city devours its own. Criminals operate with impunity while the system crumbles from within. Matt wages war on two fronts: one in silk ties and legal briefs, the other in shadows and violence. But conviction demands a price. Every case he takes, every skull he cracks, pushes him closer to the edge of redemption. He is judge, jury, and executioner. The question isn't whether he'll survive the night—it's whether anything human remains when the sun rises.
