Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- Feb 19, 1955 In Athens, Georgia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 109
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Movie Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024-09-21
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story | Self | 2024-09-21 |
| Series | A Man in Full | Charlie Croker | 2024-05-02 |
| Movie | The Saint of Second Chances | Narrator (voice) | 2023-06-11 |
| Movie | Bye Bye Barry | Self | 2023-11-20 |
| Series | The American Buffalo | (voice) | 2023-10-16 |
| Movie | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021-08-14 |
| Series | American Rust | Det. Del Harris | 2021-09-12 |
| Movie | 9/11: Inside the President's War Room | Narrator | 2021-08-31 |
| Series | Washington | Self - Narrator | 2020-02-16 |
| Series | The Comey Rule | James Comey | 2020-09-27 |
| Movie | Guest Artist | Joseph Harris | 2019-02-07 |
| Series | The Looming Tower | John O'Neill | 2018-02-28 |
| Movie | The Russian Five | Himself | 2018-04-11 |
| Movie | The Emperor's Newest Clothes | The Emperor | 2018-11-15 |
| Movie | The Catcher Was a Spy | Bill Donovan | 2018-06-22 |
| Movie | Broadway: The Next Generation | Self | 2017-11-16 |
| Series | Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge | Narrator | 2017-11-06 |
| Series | Godless | Frank Griffin | 2017-11-22 |
| Movie | Allegiant | David | 2016-03-09 |
| Movie | "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' | Self | 2015-02-17 |
| Series | ARES: live | Teddy Sanders | 2015-06-07 |
| Movie | Of Miracles and Men | Self - Narrator | 2015-02-08 |
| Movie | The Martian | Teddy Sanders | 2015-09-30 |
| Movie | Steve Jobs | John Sculley | 2015-10-09 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Himself | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber To | Harry Dunne | 2014-11-12 |
| Movie | James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend | Self | 2013-12-22 |
| Series | The Newsroom | Will McAvoy | 2012-06-24 |
| Movie | Looper | Abe | 2012-09-26 |
| Movie | Howl | Professor David Kirk | 2010-08-26 |
| Movie | The Answer Man | Arlen Faber | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | State of Play | George Fergus | 2009-04-17 |
| Movie | Paper Man | Richard Dunn | 2009-06-15 |
| Movie | Away We Go | Jerry Farlander | 2009-06-05 |
| Movie | Sweet Nothing in My Ear | Dan Miller | 2008-04-20 |
| Movie | A Plumm Summer | Narrator | 2008-04-25 |
| Movie | Space Chimps | Zartog (voice) | 2008-06-25 |
| Movie | Traitor | Carter | 2008-08-23 |
| Movie | The Lookout | Lewis | 2007-03-09 |
| Movie | Mama's Boy | Mert Rosenbloom | 2007-12-14 |
| Movie | RV | Travis Gornicke | 2006-04-28 |
| Movie | Robin Williams: A Family Affair | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors | Self | 2006-08-15 |
| Movie | Infamous | Alvin Dewey | 2006-10-13 |
| Movie | Good Night, and Good Luck. | Sig Mickelson | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Because of Winn-Dixie | Preacher | 2005-02-18 |
| Movie | The Squid and the Whale | Bernard Berkman | 2005-10-05 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Goodbye Girl | Elliot Garfield | 2004-01-16 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber - Making Of | Self | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | Imaginary Heroes | Ben Travis | 2004-09-14 |
| Movie | The Five People You Meet In Heaven | Blue Man | 2004-12-05 |
| Movie | Gods and Generals | Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain | 2003-02-21 |
| Series | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Unknown | 2003-01-26 |
| Series | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
| Movie | I Witness | James Rhodes | 2003-04-13 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2003-10-26 |
| Movie | Super Sucker | Fred Barlow | 2002-02-24 |
| Movie | The Hours | Louis Waters | 2002-12-27 |
| Movie | Blood Work | Jasper 'Buddy' Noone | 2002-08-09 |
| Movie | Escanaba in da Moonlight | Rueben Soady | 2001-01-26 |
| Movie | Chasing Sleep | Ed Saxon | 2001-05-16 |
| Movie | The Crossing | Gen. George Washington | 2000-01-10 |
| Movie | Cheaters | Dr. Gerard Plecki | 2000-05-20 |
| Movie | My Favorite Martian | Tim O'Hara | 1999-02-11 |
| Movie | It's the Rage | Warren Harding | 1999-09-11 |
| Movie | Pleasantville | Mr. Johnson | 1998-09-17 |
| Movie | Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley | Self | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Trial and Error | Charles Tuttle | 1997-05-30 |
| Series | The View | Unknown | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Unknown | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | 101 Dalmatians | Roger | 1996-11-27 |
| Movie | 2 Days in the Valley | Alvin Strayer | 1996-09-11 |
| Movie | Fly Away Home | Thomas Alden | 1996-09-13 |
| Movie | Redwood Curtain | Lyman Fellers | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Speed | Harry | 1994-06-09 |
| Movie | Dumb and Dumber | Harry Dunne | 1994-12-16 |
| Movie | Rain Without Thunder | Jonathan Garson | 1993-02-05 |
| Series | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Unknown | 1993-09-13 |
| Series | Frasier | Guest Caller - Doug | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Gettysburg | Col. Joshua Chamberlain | 1993-10-08 |
| Movie | Timescape | Ben Wilson | 1992-01-11 |
| Series | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | Unknown | 1992-05-25 |
| Movie | There Goes the Neighborhood | Willis Embry | 1992-10-30 |
| Movie | Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story | Tom Noonan | 1992-09-12 |
| Series | Breakfast with the Arts | Unknown | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | The Butcher's Wife | Dr. Alex Tremor | 1991-10-25 |
| Movie | Love Hurts | Paul Weaver | 1990-04-19 |
| Movie | Arachnophobia | Ross Jennings | 1990-07-20 |
| Movie | Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | Denton Webb | 1990-10-12 |
| Movie | No Place Like Home | Mike Cooper | 1989-12-03 |
| Movie | The House on Carroll Street | Cochran | 1988-03-04 |
| Movie | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | Lt. Steve Maryk | 1988-05-08 |
| Series | Tanner '88 | 1988-02-15 | |
| Movie | Checking Out | Ray Macklin | 1988-10-26 |
| Movie | Sweet Hearts Dance | Sam Manners | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Radio Days | Biff Baxter | 1987-01-30 |
| Movie | Heartburn | Richard | 1986-07-25 |
| Movie | Something Wild | Charles Driggs | 1986-11-07 |
| Movie | The Purple Rose of Cairo | Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd | 1985-03-01 |
| Movie | Marie: A True Story | Eddie Sisk | 1985-09-27 |
| Movie | Terms of Endearment | Flap Horton | 1983-11-20 |
| Movie | Fifth of July | Jed Jenkins | 1982-10-11 |
| Movie | Ragtime | P.C. O'Donnell | 1981-11-20 |
| Series | A Rumor of War | Chaplain | 1980-09-24 |
| Series | Saturday Night Live | Unknown | 1975-10-11 |
| Series | Hawaii Five-O | Unknown | 1968-09-20 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |