Jake Gyllenhaal
Acting
Born 1980-12-19
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. In 2005, he played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. Gyllenhaal has also performed on stage, starring in Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George as well as the plays Constellations and Sea Wall/A Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues.
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Daily Show
Spider-Man: Far From Home
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
In the Grey
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hot Ones
Golden Globe Awards
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Presumed Innocent
Road House
The Bride!
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Nightcrawler
Off Camera with Sam Jones
GMTV
Prisoners
The Oscars
Brokeback Mountain
Source Code
Zodiac
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Donnie Darko
Love & Other Drugs
The Day After Tomorrow
Explained
Southpaw
Strange World
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Life
Brothers
Everest
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Ambulance
The Guilty
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Today
Enemy
Jarhead
End of Watch
The Devil All the Time
Reunited Apart
Demolition
Nocturnal Animals
Man vs. Wild
No Way Home
The Sisters Brothers
Spirit Untamed
October Sky
Okja
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