My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.

It was a very difficult book. On February 27 2011 he and Anne Hathaway hosted the 83rd Academy Awards. To continue acting he would study on film sets.

James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor filmmaker teacher and author. For his role in 127 Hours Franco received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2013 he began teaching a course in short film production at the University of Southern California and a course in screenwriting at his alma mater University of California Los Angeles where he is also an adjunct professor of English.