Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Acting
- November 16, 1977 · Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal Sarsgaard (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, nominations for two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films. She appeared with her brother in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Gyllenhaal received praise for her leading performances in the dramas Secretary (2002) and Sherrybaby (2006), both of which earned her Golden Globe Award nominations. She had commercial success in the thriller World Trade Center (2006). She received wider recognition for her role as Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008). For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the films Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), Won't Back Down (2012), White House Down (2013), Frank (2014), and The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014), which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–2019). Gyllenhaal made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. She has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Flesh Impact · Director, Writer
- The Bride! · Producer, Writer
- Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom · Narrator (Voice)
- Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Ancient City of Dadan · Narration
- The Lost Daughter · Producer, Director
- How To with John Wilson · Self
- Best Summer Ever · TV Reporter, Executive producer
- Joker: Put on a Happy Face · Self
- Homemade · Writer, Director
- The Ben Cobb Show · Amun Ra
- The Kindergarten Teacher · Lisa Spinelli, Producer
- Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar · The Bell Jar Reader (Voice)
- The Deuce · Eileen 'Candy' Merrell, Producer
- Home · Ruth
- The New Empress · Olive
- Beauty Mark · Valerie
- Chelsea · Self
- Starring Austin Pendleton · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors · Self
- The Honourable Woman · Nessa Stein
- Frank · Clara
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- River of Fundament · Hathfertiti
- The Sturgeon Queens · Self
- White House Down · Finnerty
- Won't Back Down · Jamie Fitzpatrick
- BAM150 · Self
- Finding Your Roots · Self
- Curiosity · Host
- Hysteria · Charlotte Dalrymple
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang · Isabel Green
- Crazy Heart · Jean Craddock
- Live from Studio Five · Self
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Away We Go · LN
- Heath Ledger: A Tribute · Self
- The Dark Knight · Rachel
- Gotham Tonight · Rachel Dawes
- Voyage to the Bunny Planet
- The Graham Norton Show · Self
- High Falls · April
- Stranger Than Fiction · Ana Pascal
- Sherrybaby · Sherry Swanson
- World Trade Center · Allison Jimeno
- Monster House · Zee (Voice)
- Paris Je T'aime · Liz (Quartier des Enfants Rouges)
- Quartier des Enfants-Rouges · Liz
- Trust the Man · Elaine
- The Great New Wonderful · Emme Keeler
- Happy Endings · Jude
- The Dying Gaul · Thanks
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson · Self
- The Misbehavers · Self
- Criminal · Valerie
- The Pornographer: A Love Story · Sidney
- Strip Search · Linda Sykes
- Mona Lisa Smile · Giselle Levy
- Casa de los Babys · Jennifer
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind · Debbie
- Adaptation. · Caroline Cunningham
- Secretary · Lee Holloway
- 40 Days and 40 Nights · Sam
- Riding in Cars with Boys · Amelia
- Donnie Darko · Elizabeth Darko
- Cecil B. Demented · Raven
- The Photographer · Mira
- Independent Lens
- Resurrection · Mary
- Homegrown · Christina
- The Patron Saint of Liars · Lorraine Thomas
- The View · Self
- The Daily Show · Self
- Shattered Mind · Clothes Clerk
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien · Self
- A Dangerous Woman · Patsy
- Late Show with David Letterman · Self