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Jake Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is a Swedish-American actor. A member of the Gyllenhaal family and the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting as a child with a screen debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough performance was as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and he garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for playing the title character in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001), in which he played a psychologically troubled teenager alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. He subsequently appeared in another indie film, The Good Girl (2002) and the climate fiction-disaster film The Day After Tomorrow (2004), portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic climate event. In 2005, Gyllenhaal portrayed Anthony "Swoff" Swofford in Jarhead, Gwyneth Paltrow's love interest in Proof, and Jack Twist in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain. For his performance in Brokeback Mountain, he received critical acclaim and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Gyllenhaal received further recognition for roles in Zodiac (2007), Brothers (2009), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Love & Other Drugs (2010), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Source Code (2011), End of Watch (2012), Prisoners, Enemy (both 2013), Nightcrawler (2014), Southpaw (2015) and Nocturnal Animals (2016). For Nightcrawler, his performance was widely acclaimed and received rave reviews from critics and he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Dec 19, 1980 In Los Angeles, California, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
63
First Appeared:
In the movie A Journey to Sundance
Latest Project:
Movie In the Grey 2025-01-16
Known For
Filmography
Movie In the Grey 2025-01-16
Movie A Journey to Sundance Self 2025
Movie Road House Dalton 2024-03-08
Series Presumed Innocent Rozat 'Rusty' Sabich 2024-06-11
Movie Arnold & Sly: Rivals, Friends, Icons Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 2024-04-23
Movie Guy Ritchie's The Covenant Master Sergeant John Kinley 2023-04-19
Movie Morbius Quentin Beck / Mysterio (rumored) 2022-03-30
Movie Ambulance Danny Sharp 2022-03-16
Movie Strange World Searcher Clade (voice) 2022-11-23
Movie Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home Self (archive footage) 2022-05-03
Movie Spirit Untamed Jim Prescott (voice) 2021-05-20
Movie The Guilty Joe Baylor 2021-09-24
Movie Spider-Man: No Way Home Mysterio / Quentin Beck (archive footage) (uncredited) 2021-12-15
Movie Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration Self - Performer 2020-04-26
Movie One Night Only: The Best of Broadway Self 2020-12-11
Movie The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America Jake Gyllenhaal 2020-10-08
Movie Velvet Buzzsaw Morf Vandewalt 2019-02-01
Movie John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Mr. Music 2019-12-24
Movie Spider-Man: Far From Home Quentin Beck / Mysterio 2019-06-28
Movie Wildlife Jerry Brinson 2018-09-23
Movie The Sisters Brothers John Morris 2018-09-19
Movie Life Dr. David Jordan 2017-03-22
Movie Stronger Jeff Bauman 2017-09-22
Movie Okja Dr. Johnny Wilcox 2017-06-28
Movie Great Performers: Horror Show The Damned 2017-12-07
Movie Demolition Davis Mitchell 2016-04-06
Movie Deus ex Machina: The Philosophy of 'Donnie Darko' Self (archive footage) 2016-12-12
Movie Nocturnal Animals Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings 2016-11-04
Movie Accidental Love Howard Birdwell 2015-02-10
Movie Southpaw Billy 'The Great' Hope 2015-03-24
Movie Everest Scott Fischer 2015-09-10
Movie Enemy Adam / Anthony 2014-03-14
Movie Nightcrawler Louis Bloom 2014-10-23
Movie Prisoners Detective Loki 2013-09-19
Movie End of Watch Brian Taylor 2012-09-20
Movie 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief Self 2012-12-12
Movie Source Code Colter Stevens 2011-03-30
Movie Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Donnie Darko / Anthony Swafford (archive footage) 2010-01-01
Movie Love & Other Drugs Jamie Randall 2010-11-04
Movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Prince Dastan 2010-05-19
Movie Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler Frank O'Connor (archive footage) 2009-04-18
Movie Brothers Tommy Cahill 2009-12-02
Movie Heath Ledger: A Tribute Self 2009-06-01
Movie Zodiac Robert Graysmith 2007-03-02
Movie Rendition Douglas Freeman 2007-09-07
Movie Proof Harold 'Hal' Dobbs 2005-09-05
Movie Jiminy Glick in Lalawood Jake Gyllenhaal 2005-05-08
Movie Brokeback Mountain Jack Twist 2005-10-22
Movie Jarhead Anthony Swofford 2005-11-04
Movie The Day After Tomorrow Sam Hall 2004-05-26
Movie Donnie Darko: Production Diary Self 2004-10-04
Movie Abby Singer Self (uncredited) 2003-10-28
Movie Lovely & Amazing Jordan 2002-08-02
Movie Highway Pilot Kelson 2002-03-26
Movie The Good Girl Holden Worther 2002-08-07
Movie Moonlight Mile Joe Nast 2002-09-09
Movie Donnie Darko Donnie Darko 2001-01-19
Movie Bubble Boy Jimmy Livingston 2001-08-24
Movie October Sky Homer Hickam 1999-02-19
Movie Homegrown Jake 1998-04-17
Movie A Dangerous Woman Edward 1993-09-10
Movie Josh and S.A.M. Leon Coleman 1993-11-24
Movie City Slickers Danny Robbins 1991-06-07