“As an actor, I think we need to embrace the times we feel most uncomfortable.”
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor whose career on screen and stage has spanned more than three decades. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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entertainment · American actor (born 1980) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · voice actor · executive producer · actor · also Jake Gyllenhaal, Gyllenhaal
Born 19 December 1980 · Q133313
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2026· 4 entries
“I do have parents who constantly supported me in certain ways. In other ways, they were lacking. Definitely, it”
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PRIMETIMER: Jake Gyllenhaal's next movie could be M. Night Shyamalan's most unusual love story
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Yahoo: How Jake Gyllenhaal Transformed Into a Boxer for 'Southpaw'
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Othello review – Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal’s underwhelming blockbuster
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2024· 1 entry
It was announced that Gyllenhaal would return to Broadway playing Iago in the 2025 revival of William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello starring opposite Denzel Washington
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “An online display advertisement accurately reported that actor Jake Gyllenhaal publicly came out as gay.” False.
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2022· 1 entry
Starred as a criminal in Michael Bay's action thriller Ambulance; the film received mixed reviews from critics
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2019· 1 entry
With Adam Driver appearing, with Gyllenhaal's production having reportedly been abandoned
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2017· 2 entries
Gyllenhaal starred as astronaut David Jordan in the science fiction horror film Life; Slant Magazine's Eric Henderson stated that Gyllenhaal was "dead behind the eyes from his first scene"
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Participated in a fundraiser to help survivors who lost limbs during the September 11 attacks
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2016· 1 entry
Starred in Tom Ford's neo-noir thriller Nocturnal Animals, based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright
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2014· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal attended an event that benefited the Headstrong Project, an organization that provides treatment to military veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, during which he read a poem by a veteran, an
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2012· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal made his Off-Broadway debut in Nick Payne's play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet at the Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre
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2010· 1 entry
Which gained him a Golden Globe Award nomination
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2006· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal also praised Lee for "his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him"
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Brokeback Mountain (2005).
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Gyllenhaal was cast in the drama Proof, with co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins, where he played a graduate student in mathematics who tries to convince Paltrow's character to publish a revolutionary proof to a
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2003· 2 entries
Gyllenhaal participated in an advertising campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union
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Also auditioned for the role of Batman in the superhero film Batman Begins and came close being offered the part, but it was given to Christian Bale
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2002· 2 entries
“Every actor I look up to has done theatre work, so I knew I had to give it a try.”
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After his sister Maggie, who starred with Dunst in Mona Lisa Smile, introduced them; they eventually broke up in 2004 on friendly terms
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1998· 1 entry
Then attended Columbia University, where his sister was a senior and from which his mother had graduated, to study Eastern religions and philosophy
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1988· 1 entry
And stars Gyllenhaal as a troubled teenager who experiences visions of a six-foot-tall (1
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1980· 2 entries
Born 1980-12-19.
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In Los Angeles, California, United States, to screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs) and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal
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