Nelson Franklin
Birthday: Born in 1985-07-02 in
Deathday: Alive
Franklin was born to father Howard Franklin, a screenwriter and director. His stepmother is DJ Anne Litt. Franklin attended high school at Campbell Hall School in Studio City, California. He graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Franklin's first major role was a recurring role as Nick, the I.T. worker on NBC's The Office. Franklin later went on to appear as a series regular on the short-lived FOX comedy series Traffic Light. He appears with another Office actor, David Denman, who played Pam's ex-fiancée Roy. His side projects include a short for Funny or Die: a fake commercial promoting the Dudes-N-Bros Talking Points System, which is a service that helps guys who aren't dudes or bros hold a conversation with dudes and bros. He co-starred on the CBS sitcom The Millers and appeared on FOX sitcom New Girl, the HBO political comedy Veep, Black-ish, and Abby's.
TV Credits
The Office
Character: Graphic Design Guy
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company....
New Girl
Character: Robby
Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home....
Hacks
Character: Interviewer
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old....
Traffic Light
Character: Adam
Brothers-in-arms Ethan, Adam and Mike have been friends since college and have seen each other through highs and lows. Now well into their 30s, the three find themselves at different stages in their lives and trying to wrap their heads around the very grown-up decisions they have to make....
The Millers
Character: Adam Stoker
A divorced reporter, looking forward to the single life, finds his parents' marital problems derail his plans....
Gaslit
Character: Dick Moore
A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time....
Big Time in Hollywood, Fl
Character: Stu
Follows two delusional brothers, who are self-proclaimed filmmakers, as they are kicked out of their parent's house and end up on an epic cinematic journey....
black-ish
Character: Connor Stevens
A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood....
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Character: Documentarian (voice)
Scott Pilgrim meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers, only to find out her seven evil exes stand in the way of their love....
Bookie
Character: Kevin Miller
A veteran bookie struggles to survive the impending legalization of sports gambling, increasingly unstable clients, family, co-workers, and a lifestyle that bounces him around every corner of Los Angeles, high and low....
Abby's
Character: Bill
The best bar in San Diego is an unlicensed, makeshift bar nestled in Abby's backyard. There are rules at Abby's: no cell phones, not even to "look something up," earning a seat at the bar takes time, and losing a challenge means drinking a limey, sugary "not-beer" drink....
The Old Man
Character: Dr. Howard
Dan Chase absconded from the CIA decades ago and now lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past....
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Character: Steve Wilson
Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division) puts together a team of agents to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown around the globe, protecting the ordinary from the extraordinary....
Veep
Character: Will
A look into American politics, revolving around former Senator Selina Meyer who finds being Vice President of the United States is nothing like she expected and everything everyone ever warned her about....
Ghosts
Character: Elliot
Samantha and Jay throw caution to the wind when they convert their recently inherited country estate into a bed-and-breakfast. Call it mislaid plans. Not only is the place falling apart, but it’s also inhabited by spirits of previous residents -- whom only Samantha can see and hear....
A Million Little Things
Character: Elon
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly....
#blackAF
Character: Nelson
A father takes an irreverent and honest approach to parenting and relationships....
Party Down
Character: Steve
A group of struggling actors and dysfunctional dreamers wait for their big break while they are stuck serving hors d'oeurves for a Hollywood catering company 'Party Down.'...
Arrested Development
Character: Dr. Tilive
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together....
grown-ish
Character: Connor Stevens
Zoey Johnson heads to college and begins her hilarious journey to adulthood but quickly discovers that not everything goes her way once she leaves the nest....
Dollhouse
Character: Burt Styne
Echo is a member of a highly illegal and underground group of individuals whose personalities have been wiped clean so they can be imprinted with any number of new personas. Confined between missions to a secret facility known as the Dollhouse, the "Actives" are hired by the wealthy, powerful and connected to wholly become—with mind, personality and physiology—whomever the client wants or needs them to be. They know no other life than the specific engagements they are in at that time—or do they?...
Truth Be Told
Character: Avi Goldman
If you can think it, they will say it. This unabashed new comedy is about two diverse couples, who are both neighbors and best friends. As they go through life side by side, they can't help but analyze and obsess about EVERYTHING. From topics like sex and race, to the fact that the trusted new babysitter might just be a porn star, nothing is out of bounds for this wildly outspoken foursome....
The Office
Character: Nick
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company....
A Man on the Inside
Character: Rick Whuzmarc
A retired professor gets a new lease on life when a private investigator hires him to go undercover inside a San Francisco retirement home....
Movie Credits
You People
Character: Director
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences....
Waiting for Forever
Character: Joe
A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress....
Answer This!
Character: James Koogly
Brilliant trivia whiz Paul Tarson is great at answering little questions but horrible at answering the big ones – like what’s he going to do after grad school? When his father withdraws his funding, Paul is forced to confront his future and much procrastinated dissertation deadline…until he discovers the First Annual Ann Arbor Pub Trivia Tournament....
Jobs
Character: Bill Atkinson
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century....
Cosmetic Criminals
Character: Brian
A short mockumentary detailing the rise of intergenerational cosmetic theft through the eyes of an affected family....
Hello Ladies: The Movie
Character: Yogurt Director
When Stuart learns that his British ex-girlfriend is planning to visit Los Angeles with her husband, he sets out to impress them with his glamorous lifestyle, enlisting a Russian model he’s just met to play the role of his beautiful girlfriend. What could go wrong?...
Berkeley
Character: Frat Prez
Just as sex, drugs, rock & roll, hippies, and Vietnam enter our consciousness, so it does for Ben Sweet, the shy, 18-year-old son of conservative businessman, Sy. Ben enters UC Berkeley in 1966 to avoid the draft, but finds himself smack in the middle of a home-grown revolution....
Ghost Phone
Character: Will
William Pierce (Nelson Franklin) is a practical, rational man who suddenly finds himself face to face with the paranormal when he starts receiving phone calls from the dead on the cell phone his recently-deceased fiancée (Melissa Ordway) left behind....
The Gutter
Character: Some Winner
Walt (lover of threesomes, hater of shirts) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a former Pro Bowler as they discover he might be THE GOAT of the lanes. The only things standing in their way are racism, alcoholism and Linda "The Crusher" Curson....
Unfrosted
Character: Davey Wilson
In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry....
Gemini
Character: Greg
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity....
Band Aid
Character: Ned
A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band....
The Relationtrip
Character: Buddy
After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip where things get weird. Really, really weird....
I Love You, Man
Character: Sidney's Buddy
Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter immediately sets out to rectify the situation, embarking on a series of bizarre and awkward "man-dates."...
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Character: Markowitz
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree....
Battle of the Sexes
Character: TV Reporter
The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs....
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
Character: P.J. O'Rourke
In a life full of triumph and failure, "National Lampoon" co-founder Doug Kenney built a comedy empire, molding pop culture in the 1970s....
Fixed
Character: Jason
Allan is a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill. He soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and a nagging identity crisis. Although he is by all reasonable accounts a good, responsible man, the thought of getting "fixed" drives him to lose himself to an action-packed midlife crisis along with his best friends. Allan will refuse to grow up anymore....
Captain Marvel
Character: Medical Examiner
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe....
Unicorn Store
Character: Aaron
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams....
Tone-Deaf
Character: York
A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two generations collide with terrifying results....
Sweet Girl
Character: Martin Bennett
A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter....
Basic
Character: Nick
A short film exploring the insecure lil' ho in all of us....
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
Character: Young Lewis Black
Celebrities recall their most mind-bending trips via animations, reenactments and more in this comedic documentary exploring the story of psychedelics....
Hero Mode
Character: Rick
A teenage coding genius has just 30 days to create the world's greatest video game or his family loses everything. No pressure....
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Character: Comeau
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors....
Argo
Character: LA Times Reporter
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador....
Being the Ricardos
Character: Joe Strickland
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage....
King Knight
Character: Angus
The High Priest of a modern-day coven finds his life thrown into turmoil and ventures out on a journey of self-discovery....