Jake Gyllenhaal
Gyllenhaal in 2019
Born	Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (1980-12-19) December 19, 1980 (age 44) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupations	Actor producer
Years active	1991–present
Works	Full list
Parents	Stephen Gyllenhaal Naomi Foner
Family	Gyllenhaal
Awards	Full list
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/ JIL-ən-hawl,^[1]^[2] Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl];^[3] born December 19, 1980) is an American actor who has worked on screen and stage for over thirty years. 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.^[4] He began acting as a child, making his 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 the biopic October Sky (1999) and a troubled teenager in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). Gyllenhaal expanded to big-budget films with a starring role in the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow.

Gyllenhaal played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which he 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 Mysterio. After playing a supporting role in the drama Wildlife (2018), Gyllenhaal starred in action or thriller projects, including the films The Guilty (2021), Ambulance (2022) and Road House (2024), as well as the series Presumed Innocent (2024).

Gyllenhaal has performed on stage, starring in a West End production of the play This Is Our Youth (2002) and Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George (2017) as well as the plays Constellations (2014) and Sea Wall/A Life (2019), the last of which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues.

Life and career

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1980–2000: Early life and career beginnings

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Coat of arms of the noble house Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, United States, to screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs) and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal.^[5]^[6] Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, his older sister, appeared with him in the science fiction psychological thriller film Donnie Darko (2001). Gyllenhaal's father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is a Christian^[7] of Swedish and English descent and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.^[8] His last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal.^[9] Gyllenhaal's mother is Jewish,^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] and was born in New York City into an Ashkenazi Jewish family from Russia and Poland.^[14]^[15] Gyllenhaal has said that he considers himself Jewish.^[16]^[17] On his 13th birthday, Gyllenhaal performed a "Bar Mitzvah-like act, without the typical trappings", volunteering at a homeless shelter because his parents wanted to give him a sense of gratitude for his privileged lifestyle.^[18]^[19]

As a child, Gyllenhaal was regularly exposed to filmmaking due to his family's ties to the industry. He made his acting debut as Billy Crystal's son in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. His parents did not allow him to appear in The Mighty Ducks (1992) because it would have required him to leave home for two months.^[6] In subsequent years, his parents allowed him to audition for roles but regularly forbade him to take them if he were chosen.^[20] He was allowed to appear in his father's films several times. Gyllenhaal appeared in the 1993's A Dangerous Woman (along with sister Maggie), in "Bop Gun", a 1994 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street; and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. Along with their mother, Jake and Maggie appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. Prior to his senior year in high school, the only other film not directed by his father in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform was the 1993 film Josh and S.A.M., a little-known children's adventure.^[21]

His parents insisted that he have summer jobs to support himself, and he thus worked as a lifeguard and as a busboy at a restaurant operated by a family friend.^[20] Gyllenhaal said his parents encouraged artistic expression: "I do have parents who constantly supported me in certain ways. In other ways, they were lacking. Definitely, it's in expression and creativity where my family has always been best at."^[22] Gyllenhaal graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1998, then attended Columbia University, where his sister was a senior and from which his mother had graduated, to study Eastern religions and philosophy. At Columbia, he was a resident of John Jay Hall.^[23] Gyllenhaal dropped out after two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree.^[6] Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner. The film was positively received and earned $32 million; it was described in the Sacramento News and Review as Gyllenhaal's "breakout performance".^[21]^[24]

2001–2004: Donnie Darko to the London stage

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Donnie Darko, in which Gyllenhaal played his second lead role on film, was not a box office success on its initial 2001 release; eventually, the film became a cult favorite.^[25] Directed by Richard Kelly, the film is set in 1988 and stars Gyllenhaal as a troubled teenager who experiences visions of a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall rabbit named Frank who tells him that the world is coming to an end. Gyllenhaal's performance was well received by critics; Gary Mairs of Culture Vulture wrote that he "manages the difficult trick of seeming both blandly normal and profoundly disturbed, often within the same scene."^[26]^[27]

Gyllenhaal's next role was as Pilot Kelston in 2002's Highway alongside Jared Leto. His performance was described by one critic as "silly, clichéd and straight to video".^[21] Gyllenhaal had more success starring opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl, which premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; he also starred in Lovely and Amazing with Catherine Keener.^[28] In both films he plays an unstable character who begins a reckless affair with an older woman. Gyllenhaal later described these as "teenager in transition" roles.^[29] Gyllenhaal later starred in the Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy Bubble Boy, which was loosely based on the story of David Vetter. The film portrays the title character's adventures as he pursues the love of his life before she marries the wrong man.^[30] The film was panned by critics,^[31] with one calling it "stupid and devoid of any redeeming features".^[32]

Following Bubble Boy, Gyllenhaal starred opposite Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon and Ellen Pompeo in Moonlight Mile (2002), as a young man coping with the death of his fiancée and the grief of her parents. The story, which received mixed reviews,^[33] is loosely based on writer-director Brad Silberling's personal experiences following the murder of his girlfriend, Rebecca Schaeffer.^[34] In his theatrical debut, Gyllenhaal starred on the London stage in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This Is Our Youth at the Garrick Theatre in 2002.^[35] Gyllenhaal said, "Every actor I look up to has done theatre work, so I knew I had to give it a try."^[36] The play ran for eight weeks in London's West End; Gyllenhaal received favorable reviews and an Evening Standard Theatre Award in the Outstanding Newcomer category.^[37]^[38]

Gyllenhaal was almost cast as Spider-Man for 2004's Spider-Man 2, due to director Sam Raimi's concerns about original Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire's health.^[39] Maguire recovered, however, and the sequel was shot without Gyllenhaal.^[40] The actors later starred together in Brothers (2009), and resemble each other enough that Gyllenhaal has jokingly complained about cab drivers often calling him "Spider-Man."^[41] In 2003, he 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.^[42]^[43] Gyllenhaal subsequently appeared in the science fiction blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow in 2004, co-starring Dennis Quaid as his father.^[6]^[44]

2005–2011: Brokeback Mountain and leading roles

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In 2005, 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 problem puzzling the mathematicians' community. The film received a generally positive response. He also starred in Sam Mendes's Jarhead, where Gyllenhaal played a U.S. Marine during the first Gulf War. The film garnered a favorable response; Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post praises Gyllenhaal's performance, writing, "He makes us see his character's intelligence", adding "he doesn't seem jealous of the camera's attention when it goes to others".^[45]

In Brokeback Mountain (2005), Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play young men who meet as sheep herders and embark upon a sexual relationship that begins in the summer of 1963 and lasts for 20 years.^[46] The film was often referred to in the media with the shorthand phrase "the gay cowboy movie",^[47] although there was differing opinion on the sexual orientation of the characters. The film won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival.^[48] The film won three Academy Awards, and earned Gyllenhaal a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, but he lost to George Clooney for Syriana.^[49] The film also won four Golden Globes, and four British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), in which Gyllenhaal won for Best Supporting Actor.^[50] He and Ledger won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in 2006. Shortly after the 2006 Academy Awards, Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy in recognition of his acting career.^[51]

Gyllenhaal expressed mixed feelings about the experience of being directed by Ang Lee in Brokeback Mountain but generally had more praise than criticism for his directorial style. While critical of the way Lee tended to disconnect from his actors once filming began, Gyllenhaal praised his encouraging direction of the actors and sensitive approach to the material.^[52]^[53] At the Directors Guild of America Awards on January 28, 2006, Gyllenhaal also praised Lee for "his humbleness and his respect for everyone around him".^[54] When asked about his kissing scenes with Ledger in Brokeback Mountain, Gyllenhaal said, "As an actor, I think we need to embrace the times we feel most uncomfortable."^[55] When asked about the more intimate scenes with Ledger, Gyllenhaal likened them to "doing a sex scene with a woman I'm not particularly attracted to".^[46] Following the release of Brokeback Mountain, rumors circulated regarding the actor's sexual orientation. When asked about such gossip during an interview, Gyllenhaal said:

You know it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.^[56]

Gyllenhaal narrated the 2005 short animated film The Man Who Walked Between the Towers,^[57] based on Mordicai Gerstein's book of the same name about Philippe Petit's famous stunt.^[58] In January 2007, as host of Saturday Night Live, he put on a sparkly evening dress and sang "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the musical Dreamgirls for his opening monologue,^[59] dedicating the song to his "unique fan base... the fans of Brokeback".^[60] Later, Gyllenhaal starred in David Fincher's mystery thriller Zodiac (2007), based on the Zodiac Killer. He played Robert Graysmith, a San Francisco Chronicle political cartoonist.^[61] In preparation for his role, Gyllenhaal met Graysmith, and videotaped him to study his mannerisms and behavior.^[62] The film received a positive response; writing for The Sydney Morning Herald, Paul Byrnes opined that it was "poignant, provocative and haunting", and called Gyllenhaal "terrific".^[63] He next starred opposite Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin and Reese Witherspoon in 2007's Rendition, a Gavin Hood-directed political thriller about the U.S. policy of extraordinary rendition.^[64] Although it garnered a mixed response, New York magazine's David Edelstein called Gyllenhaal "compelling ... he's a reticent actor. But he builds that limitation into the character".^[65] Two years later, he co-starred with Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman in Jim Sheridan's Brothers, a 2009 remake of Susanne Bier's Danish film of the same name.^[66] It was met with mixed reviews and moderate box office returns, but Anthony Quinn of The Independent thought Gyllenhaal and Maguire gave "honest performances".^[67] Gyllenhaal has also claimed that Maguire's performance in the film influenced his acting throughout his career.^[68]

The following year, Gyllenhaal played the lead role in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, an adaptation of the video game of the same name, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Disney. He starred opposite Anne Hathaway in the romantic-comedy Love & Other Drugs, released on November 24, 2010, which gained him a Golden Globe Award nomination.^[69] The Guardian's Philip French welcomed Gyllenhaal's choice of a comic role, in contrast to his previous film roles, but thought the film "stumbles badly".^[70] For his sole project in 2011, he portrayed Colter Stevens, a U.S. Army Aviation captain, in the 2011 time-travel thriller Source Code. Despite noting the film's unrealistic plot, Peter Howell of the Toronto Star praised the prime performances of the cast.^[71]

2012–2018: Critical acclaim and Broadway debut

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Gyllenhaal starred alongside Michael Peña in David Ayer's action thriller End of Watch, about two Los Angeles street cops. The film, for which Gyllenhaal was also an executive producer, was released in September 2012 and received positive reviews, with Roger Ebert deeming it "one of the best police movies in recent years, a virtuoso fusion of performances and often startling action" and Salon's Andrew O'Hehir stating that the film was "at least the best cop movie since James Gray's We Own the Night, and very likely since Antoine Fuqua's memorable Training Day (which, not coincidentally, was written by Ayer)".^[72]^[73] To prepare for the role, Gyllenhaal took tactical training and participated in actual police ride-alongs with co-star Peña to help establish the language of the characters.^[74]

He served as a jury member for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival that was held in February 2012.^[75] Also in 2012, 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.^[76] 2013 saw Gyllenhaal appear in two films directed by Denis Villeneuve, whom Gyllenhaal describes as "an older brother".^[77] The first, the thriller Prisoners, starred Gyllenhaal as a detective named Loki in search of the abductor of two young girls. Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers praised Gyllenhaal's "exceptional" performance in the film.^[78] In their second collaboration, Gyllenhaal portrayed the dual role of a history teacher and his doppelgänger in the thriller Enemy.^[79] The following year, he produced and starred in the crime thriller Nightcrawler, earning Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for his performance.^[80] Ben Sachs of the Chicago Reader called Gyllenhaal's performance "attention-grabbing" and said that he "creates a memorable screen presence".^[81]

Gyllenhaal debuted on Broadway in Payne's Constellations at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre opposite Ruth Wilson, also in her Broadway debut.^[82] The production opened in January 2015 and closed in March of the same year.^[83] That same year, he starred in the comedy Accidental Love, which was filmed in South Carolina with Jessica Biel, as well as Antoine Fuqua's sports drama Southpaw.^[84]^[85] Writing for The Independent, Geoffrey Macnab called his portrayal of a boxer in Southpaw "plausible" and complimented his "emotional vulnerability", despite an unoriginal plot.^[86] He then portrayed Scott Fischer in Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, based on the 1996 Mount Everest disaster;^[87] the film was a commercial success, grossing $203 million worldwide.^[88] Finally, he appeared in Jean-Marc Vallée's comedy-drama Demolition, playing an investment banker Davis Mitchell, who rebuilds his life after losing his wife.^[89] The Village Voice's Bilge Ebiri praised his performance, writing, "He nails Davis's boyish curiosity, the quiet, wide-eyed uncertainty of someone discovering the world for the first time."^[90] He also served as a jury member for the main competition of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.^[91]^[92]

In 2016, he starred in Tom Ford's neo-noir thriller Nocturnal Animals, based on the 1993 novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright.^[93] The film received positive reviews.^[94] The Sydney Morning Herald's Sandra Hall praised Gyllenhaal's brilliant portrayal of his two roles, while Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times wrote that his performance contained "rich emotional shadings" and escalating intensity that becomes overwhelming.^[95]^[96] In October 2016, he appeared in four benefit concert performances of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical Sunday in the Park with George at the New York City Center as the titular character.^[97] Alexis Soloski of The Guardian gave the performance a perfect five-star review and hailed Gyllenhaal's superb singing.^[98] Starting in February 2017, Gyllenhaal reprised the role at the reopened Hudson Theatre on Broadway.^[99] Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised his "searing theatrical presence, in which his eyes are his center of gravity."^[99] He was scheduled to appear in Lanford Wilson's Burn This on Broadway under the direction of Michael Mayer in 2017.^[100] However, a new production of Burn This took place in 2019 with Adam Driver appearing, with Gyllenhaal's production having reportedly been abandoned.^[101]

In 2017, Gyllenhaal starred as astronaut David Jordan in the science fiction horror film Life;^[93] Slant Magazine's Eric Henderson stated that Gyllenhaal was "dead behind the eyes from his first scene".^[102] He also had a supporting role in the action-adventure film Okja and starred in the drama Stronger, based on Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.^[93] In his review of the latter, The Independent's Geoffrey Macnab complimented Gyllenhaal's versatility and "outstanding" portrayal of Bauman.^[103] The following year, he co-starred in the drama Wildlife opposite Carey Mulligan, in which he plays a father who temporarily abandons his family to take a dangerous job. It is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Richard Ford. Ella Kemp, writing for Sight & Sound magazine, praised the chemistry of the lead actors which "fizzes with an effortless dynamism".^[104] He also had a role in the Western drama The Sisters Brothers (2018).^[93]

2019–present: Action and thriller films

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Gyllenhaal reunited with Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy in the thriller film Velvet Buzzsaw, in which he plays art critic Mort Vandewalt.^[105] The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by Netflix. Variety's Peter Debrudge opined that Gyllenhaal was "relishing another of those cartoonishly camp performances".^[106] That same year, Gyllenhaal played comic book villain Mysterio / Quentin Beck in the superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home, a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.^[107] It was one of the highest-grossing films of the year.^[108] He appeared alongside Tom Sturridge in Sea Wall/A Life, a double bill of monologues by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens, at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway in 2019.^[109] He garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance.^[110] Gyllenhaal also lent his voice for the animation Spirit Untamed (2021).^[111] That same year, he played detective Joe Baylor in the crime thriller The Guilty, a remake of the Danish film of the same name.^[112]

In 2022, he starred as a criminal in Michael Bay's action thriller Ambulance; the film received mixed reviews from critics.^[113] Gyllenhaal also voiced a farmer in the Disney animation Strange World.^[111]^[114] He appeared in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) and Doug Liman's action film Road House (2024).^[115]^[116] Following the success of Road House, his production company, Nine Stories, signed a first-look deal with Amazon MGM Studios.^[117]^[118] In 2024 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.^[119] In June 2024, he joined the cast of the upcoming science fiction monster film The Bride! in an undisclosed role.^[120]

Public image

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Gyllenhaal was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2006.^[121] He was also listed in People's "Hottest Bachelors of 2006".^[122] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked him number six on its list of "the 50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish men in the world".^[123] He was ranked number 35 in Empire's poll of The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in 2013.^[124] In another poll conducted by Glamour, Gyllenhaal was selected as one of the Sexiest Men of The Year 2018.^[125]

Personal life

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Family and relationships

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Gyllenhaal's sister Maggie is married to actor Peter Sarsgaard, Gyllenhaal's co-star in Jarhead and Rendition.^[126] In December 2006, Gyllenhaal and his sister escaped a fire that destroyed Manka's Inverness Lodge, a famed lodge and restaurant in Inverness, California, at which they were vacationing. The two were among a dozen or so guests who fled after the fire, sparked by a falling tree, broke out at about 3 a.m. Co-owner and celebrity chef Daniel DeLong said the pair were supportive despite having to brave the wind and cold. "Jake was helping me pull things out of the fire," DeLong said.^[127]

Gyllenhaal has godparents whom he describes as "celebrity godparents." Actor and director Paul Newman was his godfather,^[128] and actress Jamie Lee Curtis is his godmother.^[6]^[128] Other godparents of unknown status include a gay couple^[129]^[130] and cinematographer Robert Elswit.^[131]^[132] Gyllenhaal is the godfather of Matilda Rose Ledger (born October 28, 2005), daughter of his Brokeback Mountain co-stars Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams.^[133]

Gyllenhaal began dating actress Kirsten Dunst in 2002 after his sister Maggie, who starred with Dunst in Mona Lisa Smile, introduced them; they eventually broke up in 2004 on friendly terms.^[134] He dated his Rendition co-star Reese Witherspoon from 2007 until 2009.^[135]^[136] He dated singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from October 2010 to January 2011,^[137]^[138] and model Alyssa Miller from July to December 2013.^[139]^[140] Gyllenhaal has been in a relationship with French model Jeanne Cadieu since late 2018.^[141]

Political views and other interests

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Gyllenhaal once filmed a commercial for Rock the Vote and, along with his sister, visited the University of Southern California to urge students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.^[142] He also campaigned for Democratic Party presidential nominee John Kerry.^[143] He has said that "it frustrates me when actors talk politics; I'm political and I make choices in my movies that I think are political. I try and say things with what I do. Rightly or wrongly, young actors have all the power."^[6] In an interview, he remarked that "it's a sad time when actors are politicians and politicians are actors".^[144] In the 2018 midterm elections, Gyllenhaal endorsed U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke. His endorsement came in the form of a Facebook post that included a picture of him in a "BETO" shirt and a caption that also endorsed Stacey Abrams, Andrew Gillum, Kyrsten Sinema, and Jacky Rosen in their respective Senate or gubernatorial elections.^[145]

Gyllenhaal recycles regularly, and said in an interview that he spends $400 a year to have trees planted in a Mozambique forest, partly to promote the Future Forests program.^[146]^[147] After filming The Day After Tomorrow, he flew to the Arctic to promote awareness of climate change.^[148]^[149] He has described climate activist Greta Thunberg as an inspiring figure.^[150]

In 2003, Gyllenhaal participated in an advertising campaign by the American Civil Liberties Union.^[151]^[152] Gyllenhaal is the Honorary Chair of the New Eyes for the Needy Advisory Board,^[153] and has signed on to help the TV fundraiser Stand Up to Cancer.^[154] Gyllenhaal is on the board of directors for the Anti-Recidivism Coalition and volunteered in California juvenile detention centers with Scott Budnick.^[155] In 2014, 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,^[156] and in 2017 he participated in a fundraiser to help survivors who lost limbs during the September 11 attacks in 2001.^[157] Gyllenhaal has studied Buddhism and has said, "I am not a card-carrying Buddhist, but I do try to practice mindfulness" and that it is his goal to meditate every day.^[158]^[159]

Acting credits and awards

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Gyllenhaal's most acclaimed films, according to the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include October Sky (1999), Donnie Darko (2001), Lovely & Amazing (2002), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Zodiac (2007), Source Code (2011), End of Watch (2012), Nightcrawler (2014), and Stronger (2017). He has received numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, and nominations for an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Tony Awards.

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Gig Patta: Good, good. And, um, just to wrap things up, I know you've been asked, you know, hundreds of times—I mean, how do you really pronounce your last name?
Gyllenhaal: How do you think you pronounce my last name?
Gig Patta: I thought it was pronounced /ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/.
Gyllenhaal: You got it! That's it.
Gig Patta: Is that really...?
Gyllenhaal: Yeah, there's no need for me even to say it. You got it perfectly.
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External links

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Jake Gyllenhaal at IMDb
Jake Gyllenhaal at the Internet Broadway Database
Jake Gyllenhaal at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
Jake Gyllenhaal at the TCM Movie Database
Media related to Jake Gyllenhaal at Wikimedia Commons

Awards for Jake Gyllenhaal

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

1968–2000

Ian Holm (1968)
Laurence Olivier (1969)
Colin Welland (1970)
Edward Fox (1971)
Ben Johnson (1972)
Arthur Lowe (1973)
John Gielgud (1974)
Fred Astaire (1975)
Brad Dourif (1976)
Edward Fox (1977)
John Hurt (1978)
Robert Duvall (1979)
Ian Holm (1981)
Jack Nicholson (1982)
Denholm Elliott (1983)
Denholm Elliott (1984)
Denholm Elliott (1985)
Ray McAnally (1986)
Daniel Auteuil (1987)
Michael Palin (1988)
Ray McAnally (1989)
Salvatore Cascio (1990)
Alan Rickman (1991)
Gene Hackman (1992)
Ralph Fiennes (1993)
Samuel L. Jackson (1994)
Tim Roth (1995)
Paul Scofield (1996)
Tom Wilkinson (1997)
Geoffrey Rush (1998)
Jude Law (1999)
Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present

Jim Broadbent (2001)
Christopher Walken (2002)
Bill Nighy (2003)
Clive Owen (2004)
Jake Gyllenhaal (2005)
Alan Arkin (2006)
Javier Bardem (2007)
Heath Ledger (2008)
Christoph Waltz (2009)
Geoffrey Rush (2010)
Christopher Plummer (2011)
Christoph Waltz (2012)
Barkhad Abdi (2013)
J. K. Simmons (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)
Dev Patel (2016)
Sam Rockwell (2017)
Mahershala Ali (2018)
Brad Pitt (2019)
Daniel Kaluuya (2020)
Troy Kotsur (2021)
Barry Keoghan (2022)
Robert Downey Jr. (2023)
Kieran Culkin (2024)

v t e Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer
Eve Best (1999) Chiwetel Ejiofor (2000) Rufus Norris (2001) Jake Gyllenhaal (2002) Tom Hardy (2003) Eddie Redmayne (2004) David Babani and Danielle Tarento (2005) Andrew Garfield (2006) Stephen Wight (2007) Ella Smith (2008) Lenny Henry (2009) Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd (2010) Kyle Soller (2011) Matthew Tennyson (2012) Seth Numrich (2013)

v t e Houston Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (2007) Sean Penn (2008) George Clooney (2009) Jesse Eisenberg (2010) Michael Fassbender (2011) Daniel Day-Lewis (2012) Chiwetel Ejiofor (2013) Jake Gyllenhaal (2014) Michael Fassbender (2015) Casey Affleck (2016) James Franco (2017) Christian Bale (2018) Adam Driver (2019) Riz Ahmed (2020) Benedict Cumberbatch (2021) Colin Farrell (2022) Paul Giamatti (2023)

v t e MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Kiss
1990s	Anna Chlumsky & Macaulay Culkin in My Girl (1992) Christian Slater & Marisa Tomei in Untamed Heart (1993) Demi Moore & Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal (1994) Jim Carrey & Lauren Holly in Dumb and Dumber (1995) Natasha Henstridge & Anthony Guidera in Species (1996) Will Smith & Vivica A. Fox in Independence Day (1997) Adam Sandler & Drew Barrymore in The Wedding Singer (1998) Gwyneth Paltrow & Joseph Fiennes in Shakespeare in Love (1999)
2000s	Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair in Cruel Intentions (2000) Julia Stiles & Sean Patrick Thomas in Save the Last Dance (2001) Jason Biggs & Seann William Scott in American Pie 2 (2002) Tobey Maguire & Kirsten Dunst in Spider-Man (2003) Owen Wilson, Carmen Electra & Amy Smart in Starsky & Hutch (2004) Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams in The Notebook (2005) Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (2006) Will Ferrell & Sacha Baron Cohen in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2007) Briana Evigan & Robert Hoffman in Step Up 2: The Streets (2008) Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in Twilight (2009)
2010s	Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2010) Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2011) Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2012) Jennifer Lawrence & Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook (2013) Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston & Will Poulter in We're the Millers (2014) Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley in The Fault in Our Stars (2015) Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine in Pitch Perfect 2 (2016) Ashton Sanders & Jharrel Jerome in Moonlight (2017) Nick Robinson & Keiynan Lonsdale in Love, Simon (2018) Noah Centineo & Lana Condor in To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2019)
2020s	No award (2020) Chase Stokes & Madelyn Cline in Outer Banks (2021) Poopies & the Snake in Jackass Forever (2022) Madison Bailey & Rudy Pankow in Outer Banks (2023)

v t e MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Performance in a Movie
Best Male Performance (1992–2005, 2008–2016)	Arnold Schwarzenegger (1992) Denzel Washington (1993) Tom Hanks (1994) Brad Pitt (1995) Jim Carrey (1996) Tom Cruise (1997) Leonardo DiCaprio (1998) Jim Carrey (1999) Keanu Reeves (2000) Tom Cruise (2001) Will Smith (2002) Eminem (2003) Johnny Depp (2004) Leonardo DiCaprio (2005) Will Smith (2008) Zac Efron (2009) Robert Pattinson (2010) Robert Pattinson (2011) Josh Hutcherson (2012) Bradley Cooper (2013) Josh Hutcherson (2014) Bradley Cooper (2015) Leonardo DiCaprio (2016)
Best Female Performance (1992–2005, 2008–2016)	Linda Hamilton (1992) Sharon Stone (1993) Janet Jackson (1994) Sandra Bullock (1995) Alicia Silverstone (1996) Claire Danes (1997) Neve Campbell (1998) Cameron Diaz (1999) Sarah Michelle Gellar (2000) Julia Roberts (2001) Nicole Kidman (2002) Kirsten Dunst (2003) Uma Thurman (2004) Lindsay Lohan (2005) Elliot Page (2008) Kristen Stewart (2009) Kristen Stewart (2010) Kristen Stewart (2011) Jennifer Lawrence (2012) Jennifer Lawrence (2013) Jennifer Lawrence (2014) Shailene Woodley (2015) Charlize Theron (2016)
Best Performance (2006–2007, 2017–present)	Jake Gyllenhaal (2006) Johnny Depp (2007) Emma Watson (2017) Chadwick Boseman (2018) Lady Gaga (2019) No Award (2020) Chadwick Boseman (2021) Tom Holland (2022) Tom Cruise (2023)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor
1954–1975	John Williams (1954) Charles Bickford (1955) Richard Basehart (1956) Sessue Hayakawa (1957) Albert Salmi (1958) Hugh Griffith (1959) George Peppard (1960) Jackie Gleason (1961) Burgess Meredith (1962) Melvyn Douglas (1963) Martin Balsam (1964) Harry Andrews (1965) Robert Shaw (1966) Paul Ford (1967) Leo McKern (1968) Philippe Noiret (1969) Frank Langella (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey / Al Pacino (1972) John Houseman (1973) Holger Löwenadler (1974) Charles Durning (1975)
1976–2000	Jason Robards (1976) Tom Skerritt (1977) Richard Farnsworth (1978) Paul Dooley (1979) Joe Pesci (1980) Jack Nicholson (1981) Robert Preston (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) John Malkovich (1984) Klaus Maria Brandauer (1985) Daniel Day-Lewis (1986) Sean Connery (1987) River Phoenix (1988) Alan Alda (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Jack Nicholson (1992) Leonardo DiCaprio (1993) Gary Sinise (1994) Kevin Spacey (1995) Edward Norton (1996) Greg Kinnear (1997) Ed Harris (1998) Philip Seymour Hoffman (1999) Joaquin Phoenix (2000)
2001–present	Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Alec Baldwin (2003) Thomas Haden Church (2004) Jake Gyllenhaal (2005) Djimon Hounsou (2006) Casey Affleck (2007) Josh Brolin (2008) Woody Harrelson (2009) Christian Bale(2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Leonardo DiCaprio (2012) Will Forte (2013) Edward Norton (2014) Sylvester Stallone (2015) Jeff Bridges (2016) Willem Dafoe (2017) Sam Elliott (2018) Brad Pitt (2019) Paul Raci (2020) Ciarán Hinds (2021) Brendan Gleeson (2022) Mark Ruffalo (2023) Kieran Culkin (2024)

San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Actor

St. Louis Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor

Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor

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