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Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. In 2005, he played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. Gyllenhaal has also performed on stage, starring in Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George as well as the plays Constellations and Sea Wall/A Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. In 2005, he played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. Gyllenhaal has also performed on stage, starring in Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George as well as the plays Constellations and Sea Wall/A Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Saturday Night Live
The Kelly Clarkson Show
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Golden Globe Awards
The Daily Show
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Today
Teen Choice Awards
GMTV
Homicide: Life on the Street
The Early Show
Explained
Celebrities Uncensored
Band of Brothers
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Man vs. Wild
Expecting Amy
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
The Oscars
City Slickers
Spirit Untamed
Okja
The Good Girl
Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen
The Sisters Brothers
Everest
Velvet Buzzsaw
October Sky
Brokeback Mountain
Nocturnal Animals
Brothers
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Prisoners
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
The Day After Tomorrow
Bubble Boy
Life
Southpaw
Road House
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Presumed Innocent
Strange World
Nightcrawler
Zodiac
The Guilty
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Ambulance
Source Code
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Enemy
Donnie Darko
Love & Other Drugs
Demolition
End of Watch
Jarhead
Production Credits
Running with Beto
Presumed Innocent
Breaking News in Yuba County
A Bigger Splash
Nightcrawler
The Guilty
Relic
Fun Home
End of Watch
The Devil All the Time
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