Born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is the son of Naomi Foner and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal (a screenwriter).
Actor who has been in movies such as City Slickers (1991), A Dangerous Woman (1993), October Sky (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Bubble Boy (2001), Lovely and Amazing (2001), The Good Girl (2002), Moonlight Mile (2002), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and Brokeback Mountain (2006). Proof, 2005, and Jarhead. He also made an appearance in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street on NBC from 1994 and in the 2002 production of This Is Our Youth on stage in London.
Jake Gyllenhaal top movies and TV shows
The Day After Tomorrow, a science fiction disaster movie, starring Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal portrayed Jack Twist in Ang Lee’s 2005 romance thriller Brokeback Mountain, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and received a BAFTA Award. With leading roles in the suspenseful Zodiac (2007), the love story Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction movie Source Code, his career advanced (2011). His performances in the thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), among many others, brought him even more recognition.
Jake Gyllenhaal awards and nominations
Gyllenhaale’s portrayals of a deceitful journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a damaged writer in Nocturnal Animals both garnered him nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (2016). His highest-earning release was Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), a superhero movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in which he played Quentin Beck/Mysterio. Since then, he has been in the films Ambulance, Velvet Buzzsaw, The Guilty, and Wildlife (2018). (2022).
