---
name: "Marcus Carl Franklin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marcus-carl-franklin"
fi1m_id: "marcus-carl-franklin"
imdb_id: "nm1634963"
tmdb_id: 34111
wikidata_id: "Q6758083"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 February 1993"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T20:56:31.929688+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."
---

# Marcus Carl Franklin

## Identity

Marcus Carl Franklin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marcus-carl-franklin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marcus-carl-franklin
- **IMDb ID:** nm1634963
- **TMDB ID:** 34111
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6758083
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Carl_Franklin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6758083, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1634963/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34111

Actor. Born 24 February 1993 in Carmel.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 February 1993, Carmel
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Carl_Franklin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6758083, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1634963/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34111

## Biography

Marcus Carl Franklin is an American actor. Born on 24 February 1993 in Carmel, New York, he began acting as a child in commercials before appearing in the off-Broadway and Broadway productions of *Caroline or Change*.

He is best known for portraying an incarnation of Bob Dylan who calls himself "Woody Guthrie" in the 2007 film *I'm Not There*, directed by Todd Haynes. For the role he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. Franklin also appeared as Ruben Santiago Jr. in the 2005 HBO film *Lackawanna Blues* and as James in the 2008 comedy *Be Kind Rewind*.

His other credits include the television series *Law & Order* (2004), *Blue Bloods* (2011) and *Golden Boy* (2013), and the films *The Art of Getting By* (2011) and *But Not for Me* (2015).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Be Kind Rewind* (2008), Fi1m 65, as James — [page](https://film.one/film/be-kind-rewind.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *The Art of Getting By* (2011), as Will
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, as Tom Mackey
- *Be Kind Rewind* (2008), as James — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/be-kind-rewind.md)
- *I'm Not There* (2007), as Woody / Chaplin Boy
- *Lackawanna Blues* (2005), as Ruben Santiago Jr.
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Tate — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)

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