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Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren Daniels is an American actor and musician. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.
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Born 19 February 1955 · Q53680
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2026· 2 entries
Made recurring appearances as Jimmy's father in the Apple TV+ show Shrinking, and received positive reviews for his performance as U
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2023· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Actor Jeff Daniels agreed to be paid only $50,000 to co-star in the 1994 comedy movie "Dumb and Dumber" alongside fellow actor Jim Carrey, who initially earned $7 million on the film.” True.
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2022· 1 entry
A nematode parasite that kills tarantulas was named Tarantobelus jeffdanielsi to honor his role in Arachnophobia
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2020· 2 entries
Daniels portrayed FBI director James Comey in the 2-part limited series, The Comey Rule which debuted on Showtime
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Daniels endorsed Joe Biden in the presidential election against Donald Trump
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2019· 1 entry
It was announced that Showtime had given a straight-to-series order to American Rust, a drama based on Philipp Meyer’s debut novel of the same name
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2018· 5 entries
Prior to its official opening on December 13, 2018
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Godless (2018).
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Daniels's Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for
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For his performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017)
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Daniels starred as Atticus Finch, reuniting with Aaron Sorkin in his stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird
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2017· 2 entries
Published video “Hard to Hear the Angels Sing”.
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Daniels starred in Netflix's western miniseries Godless where he portrayed the villain Frank Griffin
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “Never gone before”.
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(37 previews), and opened officially on March 10 (through June 11, 108 performances) where it was directed by Joe Mantello and received widespread critical acclaim
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Daniels returned to Broadway in the Revival of David Harrower's Blackbird alongside Michelle Williams
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2015· 2 entries
Daniels reunited with Sorkin in the biographical drama film Steve Jobs, portraying CEO John Sculley
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Played NASA Administrator Teddy Sanders in Ridley Scott's sci-fi drama film The Martian
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2014· 4 entries
Published video “Big Bay Shuffle”.
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Released album “Days Like These”.
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Published video “Days Like These - Behind The Scenes”.
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Reprised his role as Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber To reuniting with Jim Carrey
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for The Newsroom (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Daniels became the new announcing voice for Apple with the iPhone 5 ads, and appeared in the sci-fi action film Looper
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2010· 9 entries
Published video “Jeff Daniels Doc Part 5 HD”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels Doc Part 4 HD”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels Doc Part 3 HD.mov”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels Doc Part 2 HD.mov”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels Doc Part 1 HD.mov”.
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Released album “Keep It Right Here”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels UP Tour Webisode #7 - Using The Facilities”.
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Published video “Jeff Daniels Up Tour Webisode #12 - Spraying Your Sprayer”.
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Daniels continued his theater work and had a starring role in the little-seen indie Howl, alongside James Franco as Allen Ginsberg
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2009· 2 entries
Released album “Live at the Purple Rose”.
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After a 16-year-long absence, Daniels returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's original play God of Carnage alongside Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia Gay Harden
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2008· 2 entries
Released ep “Harry Dunne And The Songs Of A Disenchanted Hollywood Actor: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA”.
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Released album “Grandfather's Hat”.
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2007· 1 entry
Alongside Allison Pill, with whom he would later reunite in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom
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2006· 1 entry
Daniels appeared in the Truman Capote biopic Infamous starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sigourney Weaver
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2004· 1 entry
Released album “Live and Unplugged to Benefit the Purple Rose Theatre”.
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2003· 1 entry
As did the action film I Witness, which co-starred James Spader
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1996· 1 entry
Was the family hit film Fly Away Home with Daniels as the supportive single father of Anna Paquin's goose-raising preteen
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1994· 1 entry
Daniels co-starred with Jim Carrey in one of his most commercially successful films, Dumb and Dumber
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1991· 1 entry
Daniels founded the Purple Rose Theatre Company, a nonprofit stage company in Chelsea, Michigan
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1990· 1 entry
Daniels starred in the thriller Arachnophobia
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1988· 1 entry
Co-starred with Kelly McGillis in Peter Yates' neo-noir The House on Carroll Street, and appeared in the ensemble dramedy Sweet Hearts Dance with Susan Sarandon, Don Johnson and Elizabeth Perkins
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1986· 2 entries
Starred in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild as an unassuming businessman swept up into a wild night by a mysterious woman (Melanie Griffith) and earned his second Golden Globe nomination
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Moved back to his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan; as of 2016, he primarily resided there
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1985· 1 entry
Daniels starred in Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo alongside Mia Farrow and Danny Aiello
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1979· 1 entry
Daniels married his college girlfriend, a fellow Michigan resident also from Chelsea, Kathleen Rosemary Treado
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-02-19.
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