“But when I was making them, I was thinking how Sherry would be thinking:”
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal Sarsgaard is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards.
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Born 16 November 1977 · Q202381
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2026· 8 entries
“t be enjoying herself? This point-blank refusal of pity was central to how Gyllenhaal saw the character of Sherry Swanson. The sex scenes in Sherrybaby are painfully unromantic.”
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“I definitely went through a period where I made a separation and needed to be really independent,”
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“with Allison and me it was a very different thing. We just spent time together. And it wasn”
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“Making this, doing this, I feel like it”
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“grew up mostly Jewish, culturally”
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Far Out Magazine: The 2008 movie Maggie Gyllenhaal “did everything I could” to turn down
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Was named president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival
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2025· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal's elder daughter, Ramona, was arrested for protesting in Columbia University against Israel's actions in the Gaza war
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2021· 4 entries
The Guardian: The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman compels in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s eerie psychodrama
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The Guardian: Maggie Gyllenhaal: from ‘difficult’ roles to lauded Hollywood director
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Served as a member of the jury for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, chaired by Spike Lee
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Gyllenhaal made her feature directorial debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, which she also produced and adapted from a novella by Elena Ferrante
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2018· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal starred in The Kindergarten Teacher, a drama in which her character becomes obsessed with a student whom she believes is a child prodigy
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2016· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal narrated Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina; it was made available for purchase on Amazon's Audible store
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2012· 2 entries
Said, "Women's health is very important to me
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Played mother Jaime Fitzpatrick in the drama Won't Back Down, about a group of parents involved in a parent trigger takeover of a failing school
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2010· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal appeared in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang with co-star Emma Thompson, the sequel to the 2005's Nanny McPhee
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2005· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal drew controversy for her statement that the September 11 attacks were "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world
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2004· 2 entries
Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Gyllenhaal returned to theater in a Los Angeles production of Tony Kushner's Homebody/ Kabul as Priscilla, the Homebody's daughter, who spends most of the play searching for her elusive mother in Kabul, Afghanistan
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2003· 2 entries
Spoke out against the Iraq war, stating the reason for the invasion was "oil and imperialism"
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Co-starred with Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile in the role of Giselle
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2002· 1 entry
Gyllenhaal began a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard
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1995· 2 entries
Graduated from Harvard–Westlake and moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where she studied literature and Eastern religions
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Studied at Harvard-Westlake School (1995).
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1977· 2 entries
Born 1977-11-16.
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To Naomi Achs and Stephen Gyllenhaal
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