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Dave Franco

Known for
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025), Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Unfinished Business (2015), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017)

15 archived facts 3 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

Dave Franco is an actor best known for Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Love Lies Bleeding and Unfinished Business.

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  1. #001

    Dave Franco tested for the role of Edward Cullen in the 2008 film Twilight.

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  2. #002

    Dave Franco has two brothers, James Franco and Tom Franco.

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  3. #003

    Dave Franco has been engaged to Alison Brie since August 2015. They married in 2017.

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  4. #004

    Dave Franco's childhood hero was Roald Dahl.

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  5. #005

    While attending USC, Dave Franco wrote, directed and edited comedy shorts during the early days of Funny or Die.

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  6. #006

    Dave Franco's relationship with the actress Alison Brie began around 2012.

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  7. #007

    Dave Franco's father was of half Portuguese and half Swedish descent, with his Portuguese roots tracing to the Madeira islands. Dave Franco's mother comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Russia, Germany, Poland and Lithuania).

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    Dave Franco and his brother James Franco have each played famous comic-book characters from rival companies. James played Harry Osborn, the best friend of Peter Parker/Spider-Man and son of the Green Goblin, from Marvel Comics in Sam Raimi's film trilogy. Dave voiced Edward Nygma/The Riddler, the iconic enemy of DC Comics' Batman, in the series Young Justice: Legacy (2013). More recently, Dave voiced Tony Stark/Iron Man in Avengers Academy (2016) alongside his then-fiancée Alison Brie, meaning he has now played both DC and Marvel characters.

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  9. #009

    Dave Franco is the son of Betsy Franco.

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  10. #010

    Dave Franco graduated from the University of Southern California.

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    On his father's side, Dave Franco is the grandson of Daniel Franco Jr. and Marjorie J. (Peterson) Franco, an author of young-adult books. On his mother's side, he is the grandson of Daniel Verne (born Daniel S. Verovitz) and Marjorie "Mitzie" Levine. One of Dave's maternal great-grandfathers, Emanuel "Manuel" V. Levine, was a prominent judge in Cleveland, Ohio.

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  12. #012

    Two of Dave Franco's films, 22 Jump Street (2014) and Warm Bodies (2013), feature the same two songs on their soundtracks: John Waite's "Missing You" from 1984 and M83's "Midnight City" from 2011.

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  13. #013

    Dave Franco lives in Hollywood.

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  14. #014

    On the night they met, Dave Franco and his wife Brie took Molly (MDMA) together.

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  15. #015

    Dave Franco was born at 21:18 (PDT).

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