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name: "Dane DeHaan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dane-dehaan"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "6 February 1986"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-17T13:22:59.891483+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Dane DeHaan

Actor. Born 6 February 1986 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 6 February 1986, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Active:** 2012–present
- **Also known as:** Dane William DeHaan, Дейн Дехаан
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 74 (2), 2020s 74 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 75 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 5, History 3, Crime 2, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,295m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane_DeHaan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860876, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2851530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/122889

## Coming up

- *Samo Lives* (2026-12-11)
- *Neuromancer* (2027-01-21), as Peter Riviera

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Staircase*](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Dane DeHaan

> Dane DeHaan has a boy's face and an adult's control behind it, and he is at his best when a film gives him a question and leaves him alone with it. Given plot instead, or a part with nothing in it, he goes quiet in the wrong way.

Near the end of *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), Derek Cianfrance hands the film to a teenager. Jason has a question about his father, and Dane DeHaan plays him as a boy who wants the answer and is frightened of it, thin and wary, saying less than anyone around him. By then the film has started to underline its own meaning. DeHaan does not. He was the one thing in that last hour we did not doubt, and we were more worried for him than the plotting had earned, because the wanting is in his face before anyone has written him a line to say it.

That has been his trade since 2012. He trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and started on stage in 2008, but the film career begins with *Chronicle* (2012), a found-footage picture that asked him to carry it as Andrew Detmer, a teenager who acquires powers he cannot manage, and then *The Place Beyond the Pines* the following year. After that the pattern set: independent films such as *Kill Your Darlings* (2013), as Lucien Carr among the Beats, and *Lawless*, alternating with studio work in *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* (2014) as Harry Osborn. Then came two attempts at leading a large film, *A Cure for Wellness* and *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017), and the second of those was not well received. Lately he has gone back into ensembles, as Kenneth Nichols in Christopher Nolan's *Oppenheimer* (2023) and as Clayton Peterson in *The Staircase* (2022).

What works is the face. He has said of his start that "I looked like I was really, really young, but I was a classically trained actor," and that is the whole equipment. When he plays anger or loneliness it looks like something happening to him rather than something he is doing. The word that follows him around is brooding, and the same profiles that use it note he has looked for other kinds of parts. The word is not wrong. It is simply what the camera finds when it is left on him.

What does not work is a part with nothing to hold. In *The Staircase* he and Patrick Schwarzenegger play Michael Peterson's sons and are given loyalty and not much else; the series belongs to Colin Firth and Toni Collette, and DeHaan stands at the edge of family dinners waiting for a scene that does not arrive. It is not a bad performance. It is barely a performance, and that is the writing, not him.

Cianfrance got the best of him by giving him a question and a great deal of silence. The larger films gave him plot instead, and he is not an actor who fills a screen by force; he fills it by making you wonder what he is about to do. Actors who look young are eventually granted their age. We would like to see what he does with it.

## Biography

Dane DeHaan is an American actor. He was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on 6 February 1986 and trained at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

DeHaan made his feature film debut in *Amigo* (2010) and gained attention for his performances in *Chronicle* (2012) and *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), in which he played Jason Kancam. Subsequent roles include Harry Osborn in *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* (2014), the title character in *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017), and Kenneth Nichols in *Oppenheimer* (2023). On television he has appeared in *True Blood* (2011) and played Clayton Peterson in the 2022 series *The Staircase*.

He is married to actress Anna Wood.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Dumb Money* (2023), Fi1m 64, as Brad — [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-money.md)
- *Oppenheimer* (2023), Fi1m 84, as Kenneth Nichols — [page](https://film.one/film/oppenheimer.md)
- *The Staircase* (2022), Fi1m 75, as Clayton Peterson — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)
- *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), Fi1m 66, as Jason Kancam — [page](https://film.one/film/the-place-beyond-the-pines.md)
- *Lincoln* (2012), Fi1m 82, as Second White Soldier — [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Neuromancer* (2027), series, as Peter Riviera
- *Samo Lives* (2026), Acting
- *Wardriver* (2026), as Cole
- *American Primeval* (2025), series, as Jacob Pratt
- *Dumb Money* (2023), as Brad — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/dumb-money.md)
- *Oppenheimer* (2023), as Kenneth Nichols — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/oppenheimer.md)
- *The Staircase* (2022), series, as Clayton Peterson — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-staircase-2022.md)
- *Lisey's Story* (2021), series, as Jim Dooley
- *The Stranger* (2020), series, as Carl E.
- *ZeroZeroZero* (2020), series, as Chris Lynwood
- *The Kid* (2019), as Billy 'The Kid' Bonney
- *The Boxcar Children: Surprise Island* (2018), as John Joseph Alden (voice)
- *Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets* (2017), as Valerian
- *Tulip Fever* (2017), as Jan Van Loos
- *A Cure for Wellness* (2017), as Lockhart
- *Ballerina* (2016), as Victor (voice)
- *Two Lovers and a Bear* (2016), as Roman
- *Knight of Cups* (2015), as Paul
- *Life* (2015), as James Dean
- *Life After Beth* (2014), as Zach Orfman
- *The Amazing Spider-Man 2* (2014), as Green Goblin / Harry Osborn
- *Kill Your Darlings* (2013), as Lucien Carr
- *Metallica: Through the Never* (2013), as Trip
- *Devil's Knot* (2013), as Chris Morgan
- *The Place Beyond the Pines* (2013), as Jason Kancam — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-place-beyond-the-pines.md)
- *Lincoln* (2012), as Second White Soldier — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/lincoln.md)
- *Jack & Diane* (2012), as Chris
- *Lawless* (2012), as Cricket Pate
- *Chronicle* (2012), as Andrew Detmer
- *Amigo* (2011), as Gil
- *The Front* (2010), as Cal Tradd
- *At Risk* (2010), as Cal Tradd
- *True Blood* (2008), series, as Timbo — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/true-blood.md)
- *In Treatment* (2008), series, as Jesse D'Amato
- *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Vincent Beckwith
- *The Layla Project*, as Eric
- *Woodrow Wilson*, as Thaddeus 'Teddy' Schumacher
- *The Tiger*, as Kanchuga
- *America's Favorite*, as Peter Bale
- *The Queen of Fashion*, as Detmar Blow
- *McCarthy*, as Roy Cohn

## Gallery

- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-7fb935f2d21e.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Dane_DeHaan_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Dane_DeHaan_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan and Luc Besson at the San Diego Comic-Con 2016 presentation of Valerian and the city of a Thousand Planets (at Camp Conival)](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-1cd732410385.jpg) Cara Delevingne, Dane DeHaan and Luc Besson at the San Diego Comic-Con 2016 presentation of Valerian and the city of a Thousand Planets (at Camp Conival) — Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Cara_Delevingne%2C_Dane_DeHaan_and_Luc_Besson.jpg/1280px-Cara_Delevingne%2C_Dane_DeHaan_and_Luc_Besson.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-7d8d3c182cfe.jpg) Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828261306670%29.jpg/1280px-Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828261306670%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-c1eabd5736af.jpg) Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828439120622%29.jpg/1280px-Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828439120622%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-701214cef320.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-d808deb1a4ef.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-d3e52fca9e48.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB
- ![Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-8b214fba356e.jpg) Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828439144232%29.jpg/1280px-Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828439144232%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-2eb7949d2afb.jpg) Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets", at the San Diego Conv — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828512942156%29.jpg/1280px-Cara_Delevingne_%26_Dane_DeHaan_%2828512942156%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-145f3bf97041.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-fb465e8f81a7.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB
- ![Dane DeHaan](https://film.one/media/person/290662/gallery-76dacdbe5ae6.jpg) Dane DeHaan — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2018: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planets*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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