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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.
After the events of Brand New Day, Peter Parker finds himself reset once again — not as a forgotten hero, but as a fractured one. In a New York that remembers Spider-Man in pieces, Peter must rebuild his life from scattered relationships, uncertain memories, and a reputation that never fully stabilizes. But while Peter tries to live a normal life again, something deeper is growing beneath the city. A new wave of crime emerges — not organized by empires, but driven by experiments, instability, and science gone wrong. At the center of it all is The Jackal, a former scientist whose obsession with rewriting life itself turns New York into a testing ground for human reconstruction. Meanwhile, street-level chaos rises through brutal enforcers like Rhino, forcing Spider-Man into a war on two fronts: * one physical, raw, and violent * one psychological, built on identity, memory, and what it means to be real As Gwen Stacy enters Peter’s life and MJ drifts further into emotional distance, Peter begins to question whether his “new life” is truly a fresh start… or just another version of the same cycle repeating. In New Days, Spider-Man isn’t just fighting villains — he’s fighting the idea that people, including himself, can be rebuilt into something else entirely.
