Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Margalit Ruth "Maggie" GyllenhaalTemplate:Efn (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She has five Golden Globe nominations with one win, two Academy Award nominations and two Emmy nominations.
She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and 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), each of which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. She had commercial success in the thriller World Trade Center (2006), and received wider recognition for playing 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 nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award. 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. She has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing.
Early lifeEdit
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal<ref name="The Guardian 2014-07-12">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=JewcyName>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="TimesIsrael"/> was born in Manhattan, New York City, on November 16, 1977,<ref name=tvg>Template:Cite journal</ref> to Naomi Achs and Stephen Gyllenhaal. The first name on Maggie's birth certificate is "Margalit", which she did not discover until 2013, when adopting her husband's surname.<ref name="JewcyName"/> Margalit ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) is a Hebrew word meaning "pearl"; some news stories have spelled it "Margolit".<ref name="TimesIsrael">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has a younger brother, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and a half-brother, Luke, from their father's second marriage.<ref name="TimesIsrael" />
Her father is a film director and poet, and her mother is a screenwriter and director.<ref name="Maggie Gyllenhaal In The Con">Template:Cite news</ref> Her father, a member of the noble Gyllenhaal family, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and was raised in the Swedenborgian religion.<ref name="ReferenceA">Stated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS, April 22, 2012</ref> Her last native Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Her mother was born in New York City (growing up in Brooklyn),<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref> and is Jewish,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> from Ashkenazi Jewish families that emigrated from Russia and Poland. Her mother's first husband was Eric Foner, a noted historian and history professor at Columbia University.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="education">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal has stated that she "grew up mostly Jewish, culturally", and she identifies as Jewish,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> though she did not attend Hebrew school.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her parents married in 1977, and filed for divorce in October 2008.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gyllenhaal grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the Harvard–Westlake prep school.<ref name="education"/> She spent four months as a student at The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors in Vermont.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1995, she graduated from Harvard–Westlake and moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where she studied literature and Eastern religions.<ref name="education"/> She also studied acting for a summer term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, England.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CareerEdit
1992–2001: Early workEdit
At the age of 15, she made a brief appearance in her father's film Waterland (1992). Soon, she had supporting roles in A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998), which were directed by her father and also featured her brother Jake.<ref name="education" /> With their mother, she and Jake appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> After graduating from college, she had supporting roles in films including Cecil B. Demented (2000) and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001).<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real brother's on-screen sister in the indie cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001).<ref name="aftermath" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
She made her theatrical debut in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Patrick Marber's Closer,<ref name="play">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> for which she received favorable reviews.<ref name="production time" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Production started in May 2000 and ended in mid-July of that year.<ref name="production time">Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal has performed in several other plays, including The Tempest,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Antony and Cleopatra, The Butterfly Project, and No Exit.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Dead link</ref>
2002–2005: Film breakthroughEdit
Gyllenhaal's breakout role was in the black comedy, Secretary (2002), a film about two people who embark on a mutually fulfilling BDSM lifestyle.<ref name="ny times" /> The New York Times critic Stephen Holden noted: "The role of Lee, which Maggie Gyllenhaal imbues with a restrained comic delicacy and sweetness, should make her a star."<ref name="ny times">Template:Cite news</ref> Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: "Maggie Gyllenhaal, as the self-destructive secretary, is enigmatic and, at moments, sympathetic."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film received generally favorable reviews,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Gyllenhaal's performance earned her the Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> her first Golden Globe nomination,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web
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Next, she had a supporting role in the comedy-drama Adaptation (2002), a film that tells the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's struggle to adapt The Orchid Thief into a film.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite news</ref> She later appeared in the unauthorized biography Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), part of an ensemble cast that included Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, and Julia Roberts.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref> The movie grossed US$33 million worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref> That same year, she had a small role in the comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights.<ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref> In 2003, she co-starred with Julia Roberts in Mona Lisa Smile in the role of Giselle.<ref name="People - Bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she revealed the reason for accepting the role was "to play somebody who feels confident in herself as a sexy, beautiful woman".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film generated mostly mixed reviews,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as "smug and reductive".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her next roles were in smaller independent films: Casa de los Babys (2003), is a story about six American women impatiently waiting out their lengthy residency requirements in a South American country before picking up their adoptive babies,<ref name=":4">Template:Cite news</ref> and Criminal (2004), a remake of the Argentinian film Nine Queens, with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna.<ref name="nine" /> Gyllenhaal plays an honest hotel manager forced to help her crooked brother (Reilly) by seducing one of his victims.<ref name="nine">Template:Cite news</ref>
She starred in the HBO film Strip Search (2004), in which she portrayed an American student in China suspected of terrorism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For her role, Gyllenhaal had to perform multiple scenes of full-frontal nudity as the film tackled issues of strip searches. In 2004, 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. Kushner gave her the role in Homebody/ Kabul on the strength of her performance in Closer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Ben Brantley of The New York Times wrote: "Ms. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> John Heilpern of The New York Observer noted that Gyllenhaal's performance was "compelling".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Finally in 2004, Gyllenhaal was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Viewed as a sex symbol, she was ranked in the "Hot 100 List" by Maxim magazine in 2004 and 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gyllenhaal's next film role was in the 2005 comedy-drama Happy Endings, in which she played an adventuress singer who seduces a young gay musician (Jason Ritter) as well as his rich father (Tom Arnold). She recorded songs for the film's soundtrack,<ref name="People - Bio" /><ref name="live">Template:Cite news</ref> calling the role the "roughest, scariest acting ever" and adding she is more natural when singing on screen than when acting.<ref name="live" /> Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly declared Gyllenhaal's performance "as wonderfully, naturally slouchy-sexy as her character is artificial".<ref name=":5">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2006–2009: Comedies, dramas and theatreEdit
Following Happy Endings, Gyllenhaal appeared in five films releases in 2006: Trust the Man, Stranger than Fiction, Monster House, World Trade Center, and Sherrybaby. In Trust the Man, featuring Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, and Billy Crudup, she played Elaine, who has been dating Tobey, Crudup's character, for seven years and has begun to feel that it is time for her to settle down and start a family.<ref name=":6">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film was critically and financially unsuccessful.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ethan Alter of Premiere felt that the performances by Gyllenhaal and Duchovny were "much more at ease" and concluded with "that's probably because they're Template:Sic played these characters many times before".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In Stranger than Fiction, Gyllenhaal played a love interest of Harold Crick, played by Will Ferrell.<ref name=":7">Template:Cite news</ref> Her performance in the film received favorable reviews; Mike Straka of Fox News wrote: "Gyllenhaal has never been sexier in any film before and her interplay with Ferrell will propel her to more A-list films, leaving her indie-darling days behind, no doubt."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She voiced Elizabeth "Zee" in the animated horror film Monster House.<ref name=":8">Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal played Allison Jimeno, the wife of Port Authority officer Will Jimeno, in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, based on the September 11 attacks in New York City.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She regarded this as "one of the films she most enjoyed making".<ref name="aftermath" /> The film received favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning US$162 million worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In Sherrybaby, Gyllenhaal played a young drug-addicted thief trying to put her life in order after prison so she can reconcile with her daughter. During promotion of the film, she noted of her portrayal of the character: "I think she's in such dire straits that all she has are these kind of naive, fierce hopes. And while I was playing the part I was looking for pleasure and hope in everything, even in these really bleak things. And so it was really mostly after I finished the movie that I felt pain."<ref name=":9">Template:Cite news</ref> Her performance in the film was well-received; David Germain of the Associated Press wrote, "Gyllenhaal humanizes her so deeply and richly ... that Sherry elicits sympathy even in her darkest and weakest moments",<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Dennis Harvey of Variety magazine called her performance "naturalistic".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For her performance, Gyllenhaal earned a second Golden Globe Best Actress nomination<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and won the Best Actress category award at the 2006 Stockholm International Film Festival.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
She appeared in The Dark Knight (2008), the sequel to Batman Begins (2005), in which she replaced Katie Holmes as Assistant District Attorney, Rachel Dawes.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal acknowledged her character was a damsel in distress to an extent, but said director Christopher Nolan sought ways to empower her character, so "Rachel's really clear about what's important to her and unwilling to compromise her morals, which made a nice change" from the many conflicted characters she had previously portrayed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Dark Knight was a critical and commercial success, setting a new opening weekend box office record for North America. With revenue of $1 billion worldwide,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it became the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and remains Gyllenhaal's most commercially successful feature to date. In a Salon magazine review of the film, Stephanie Zacharek called Gyllenhaal's character "a tough cookie in a Stanwyck-style bias-cut gown" and stated that "the movie feels smarter and more supple when she's on-screen".<ref name=":10">Template:Cite news</ref> IGN film critic Todd Gilchrist wrote, "Gyllenhaal adds real depth and energy to Rachel Dawes".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In addition to film, Gyllenhaal played Yelena Andreevna in the Classic Stage Company's 2009 Off-Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in New York City.<ref name="uncle">Template:Cite news</ref> The cast also included her husband Peter Sarsgaard.<ref name="uncle" /> The production, directed by Austin Pendleton, began previews on January 17 and ended its limited run on March 1.<ref name="uncle" /> Joe Dziemianowicz of the New York Daily News was unenthusiastic about her performance, writing "Gyllenhaal, who was so dynamic as a druggie in the film Sherrybaby, plays Yelena with a slow-mo saunter and monotonous pasted-on smile that makes it seem as if she's been in Sherry's stash."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, Malcolm Johnson of the Hartford Courant was complimentary, noting that she "ultimately blossoms" as the character.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gyllenhaal agreed to star in the comedy Away We Go (2009), in which she plays a bohemian college professor who is an old friend of John Krasinski's character.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> The film generated broadly mixed reviews,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> with Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly describing Gyllenhaal's subplot as "over-the-top".<ref name=":11">Template:Cite magazine</ref> However, A. O. Scott of The New York Times praised Gyllenhaal and co-star Allison Janney for their performances, writing that "both [are] quite funny".<ref name="proud">Template:Cite news</ref> Scott concluded with, "Ms. Gyllenhaal's line about sex roles in 'the seahorse community' is the screenplay's one clean satirical bull's-eye".<ref name="proud" /> Her next role came in the musical-drama Crazy Heart, in which she played journalist Jean Craddock, who falls for musician Bad Blake, played by Jeff Bridges, whose performance won the Academy Award for Best Actor.<ref name="parade">Template:Cite news</ref> The film was acclaimed,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as was Gyllenhaal's performance. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone observed that Gyllenhaal was "funny, touching and vital as Jean" and that her part was "conventionally conceived, but Gyllenhaal plays it with a tough core of intelligence and feeling."<ref name=":12">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2010–2020: Independent films and televisionEdit
In addition to acting, she presented 13 episodes of the PBS television series Independent Lens between 2009 and 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The program presents documentary films made by independent filmmakers. In 2010, Gyllenhaal appeared in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang with co-star Emma Thompson, the sequel to the 2005's Nanny McPhee.<ref name=":13">Template:Cite magazine</ref> She played Isabel Green, which required her to speak with an English accent.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The feature received generally positive reviews; review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an approval rating of 76% based on 119 critics.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> The Sydney Morning Herald complimented Gyllenhaal's realistic accent and ability to capture her English character with ease.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was a reasonable success at the box office, earning $93 million worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
For her next film, Gyllenhaal starred in the biographical romance Hysteria (2011), which focuses on the events that led to the creation of the vibrator during the Victorian era.<ref name=":14">Template:Cite news</ref> The film received a mixed reception; writing for The Guardian, David Cox noted the film's stereotypes and "yelps of delight", and praised Gyllenhaal's English accent.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In February 2011, Gyllenhaal starred in another Anton Chekhov Off-Broadway production as the character Masha in Austin Pendleton's Three Sisters at the Classic Stage Company.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The play focused on the Prozorov sisters (Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hecht, and Juliet Rylance), who are "unlucky in love, unhappy in the provinces and longing to return to Moscow", as summarized by Bloomberg's Jeremy Gerard.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The production began preview performances on January 12, with a limited engagement through March 6.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2012, she 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. Next, she appeared alongside Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx, as a Secret Service agent in the action-thriller White House Down (2013).<ref name=":15">Template:Cite journal</ref> The film was met with mixed reviews and under-performed at the box office.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A year later, she starred in the musical comedy Frank, about a man who joins an odd band with a group of bizarre musicians. Gyllenhaal, who also plays a musician, said she initially turned down the role because she did not understand it. However, she changed her mind after the story "stuck with her".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival to favorable opinions; Slant magazine's critic opined that Gyllenhaal has "passive and palpable screen presence".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Also that year, she played Hathfertiti in Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler's River of Fundament, loosely based on the 1983 novel Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer.<ref name=":16">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Gyllenhaal played the lead role as Baroness Nessa Stein, a British-Israeli businesswoman heiress in the BBC political spy thriller television miniseries, The Honourable Woman.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series was well received; Kevin Fallon wrote in the Daily Beast: "Gyllenhaal delivers what might be the most towering, complex, best performance of her career in the miniseries."<ref>"The Honorable Woman Is Maggie Gyllenhaal's Best Performance Yet," Template:Webarchive the Daily Beast.</ref> Time magazine praised the series' pacing, themes, settings, and called Gyllenhaal's performance "remarkable".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> At the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, she won Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film for her performance.<ref name=":17">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Honourable Woman appeared in a list of The Guardian critics' 30 best television shows of 2014.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2016, Gyllenhaal narrated Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina; it was made available for purchase on Amazon's Audible store. In an interview, Gyllenhaal said "Making this, doing this, I feel like it's one of the major accomplishments of my work life."<ref>Template:Citation</ref> In February 2017, she served as a member of the jury for the 2017 Berlin Film Festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Returning to film in 2018, Gyllenhaal starred in The Kindergarten Teacher, a drama in which her character becomes obsessed with a student whom she believes is a child prodigy. The film premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and was distributed via Netflix. It is a remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name. The feature opened to mainly popular reviews; The Daily Telegraph critic gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, and thought Gyllenhaal was well-cast, writing "[her] earnest intensity as an actress, gift for fatigue and slightly holier-than-thou authority are key assets here."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Although Dennis Harvey of Variety magazine praised her performance, he thought the film lacked "psychological insight".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
She served as a producer and starred in the HBO drama series The Deuce, which aired from 2017 to 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Gyllenhaal played Eileen "Candy" Merrell, a sex worker during the Golden Age of Porn. The Deuce earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021–present: FilmmakingEdit
In 2021, 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The film received critical acclaim,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and had its premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival, where Gyllenhaal won the Best Screenplay Award.<ref name="vogue">Template:Cite news</ref> It received four awards, including Best Feature and Breakthrough Director, as well as one further nomination at the 2021 Gotham Awards.<ref name="indiewire">Template:Cite news</ref> At the 79th Golden Globe Awards, Gyllenhaal received a nomination for Best Director.<ref name="golden_globes">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She then received a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the 75th British Academy Film Awards,<ref name="BAFTA22">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the second Academy Award nomination of her career also for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards.<ref name="Oscars">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Gyllenhaal will next direct The Bride!, a 1930s-set adaptation of Frankenstein, starring Christian Bale, Jessie Buckley, and her brother Jake.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal lifeEdit
In 2002, Gyllenhaal began a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard.<ref name="People - 2">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="People - Bio"/> The couple became engaged in April 2006,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and married on May 2, 2009, in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> They have two daughters, born October 2006 and April 2012.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On May 9, 2025, Gyllenhaal's eldest daughter, Ramona Sarsgaard, was arrested for protesting in Columbia University against Israel's actions in the Gaza war.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Political viewsEdit
At the 18th Independent Spirit Awards in 2003, she spoke out against the Iraq war, stating the reason for the invasion was "oil and imperialism".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2005, 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 ... It is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict."<ref name="bbc news">Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal took part in Artists United to Win Without War, a campaign started by Robert Greenwald that aimed to advance progressive causes and voicing opposition to the Iraq War.<ref name="multiple">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
She and her brother Jake filmed a commercial for Rock the Vote, and visited the University of Southern California to encourage students to vote in the 2004 U.S. presidential election,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> in which she supported John Kerry.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has campaigned on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), an organization her family strongly supports.<ref name="farlanders">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In June 2013, Gyllenhaal and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
PhilanthropyEdit
Gyllenhaal is a supporter of Witness, a non-profit organization that uses video and online technologies to expose human rights violations.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="wit organ">Template:Cite news</ref> She co-hosted a benefit dinner with founder Peter Gabriel in November 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal helped raise funds for TrickleUp.org, another non-profit that helps people in poverty to start a micro-enterprise.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For one of the fundraisers, Gyllenhaal helped design and promote a necklace that sold for US$100; all proceeds from sales went to the charity.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Since 2008, Gyllenhaal has been supporting the Hear the World Foundation as ambassador. In her role, she advocates for equal opportunities and better quality of life for people with hearing loss.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In October 2008, she hosted a fashion show called "Fashionably Natural", which was presented by Gen Art and SoyJoy in Los Angeles.<ref name="eco" /><ref name="friendly" /> The show featured new designers who worked only with natural and eco-friendly fabrics and materials.<ref name="eco">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="friendly">Template:Cite news</ref> Gyllenhaal is an advocate of Planned Parenthood; in 2012 she said, "Women's health is very important to me. It has become such a politicized issue and so I will make every effort to elect officials who believe as strongly as I do that all women [...] have access to quality health care and information."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FilmographyEdit
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| 1993 | A Dangerous Woman | Patsy | <ref name="education" /> | ||
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| 2000 | Template:Sort | Mira | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2001 | Donnie Darko | Elizabeth Darko | <ref name="aftermath" /> | ||
| Riding in Cars with Boys | Amelia Forrester | Template:Sfn | |||
| 2002 | Secretary | Lee Holloway | <ref name="ny times" /> | ||
| 40 Days and 40 Nights | Sam | <ref name=":3" /> | |||
| Adaptation | Caroline Cunningham | <ref name=":1" /> | |||
| Confessions of a Dangerous Mind | Debbie | <ref name=":2" /> | |||
| 2003 | Casa de los Babys | Jennifer | <ref name=":4" /> | ||
| Mona Lisa Smile | Giselle Levy | <ref name="People - Bio" /> | |||
| 2004 | The Pornographer: A Love Story | Sidney | Template:Sfn | ||
| Criminal | Valerie | <ref name="nine" /> | |||
| 2005 | Happy Endings | Jude | <ref name=":5" /> | ||
| Template:Sort | Emme | Segment: "Emme's Story" | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| Trust the Man | Elaine | <ref name=":6" /> | |||
| 2006 | Sherrybaby | Sherry Swanson | <ref name=":9" /> | ||
| Paris, je t'aime | Liz | Segment: "Quartier des Enfants Rouges" | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Monster House | Elizabeth "Zee" | Voice role | <ref name=":8" /> | ||
| World Trade Center | Allison Jimeno | <ref name="aftermath" /> | |||
| Stranger than Fiction | Ana Pascal | <ref name=":7" /> | |||
| 2007 | High Falls | April | Short film | Template:Sfn | |
| 2008 | Template:Sort | Rachel Dawes | <ref name=":10" /> | ||
| 2009 | Away We Go | Ellen "LN" | <ref name=":11" /> | ||
| Crazy Heart | Jean Craddock | <ref name=":12" /> | |||
| 2010 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | Isabel Green | <ref name=":13" /> | ||
| 2011 | Hysteria | Charlotte Dalrymple | <ref name=":14" /> | ||
| 2012 | Won't Back Down | Jamie | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2013 | White House Down | Carol Finnerty | <ref name=":15" /> | ||
| 2014 | Frank | Clara | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| River of Fundament | Hathfertiti #2 | <ref name=":16" /> | |||
| 2016 | Beauty Mark | Valerie | Short film | ||
| Home | Ruth | ||||
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| 2020 | Best Summer Ever | TV Reporter | Also executive producer | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |
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TelevisionEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Abbr | |
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| 1996 | Shattered Mind | Clothes clerk | TV movie | Template:Sfn | |
| 1998 | The Patron Saint of Liars | Lorraine Thomas | Template:Sfn | ||
| 1999 | Resurrection | Mary | Template:Sfn | ||
| Shake, Rattle, and Roll: An American Love Story | Noreen Bixler | Template:Sfn | |||
| 2004 | Strip Search | Linda Sykes | Template:Sfn | ||
| 2012 | Discovery's "Curiosity" | Host | Documentary. Episode: "Why is Sex Fun?" | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |
| The Corrections | Denise | Unaired pilot | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2014 | The Honourable Woman | Nessa Stein, Baroness Stein of Tilbury | Miniseries; 8 episodes | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 2016 | Inside Amy Schumer | Herself | Episode: "Brave" | ||
| Truth and Power | Narrator | Documentary | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2017–2019 | The Deuce | Eileen "Candy" Merrell | 25 episodes; also producer | citation | CitationClass=web
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TheatreEdit
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Template:Tooltip | |
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| 2000 | Closer | Alice | Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum | citation | CitationClass=web
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| 2003 | Homebody/Kabul | Priscilla Ceiling | Mark Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of Music | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 2009 | Uncle Vanya | Yelena Andreevna | Classic Stage Company | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | |
| 2011 | Three Sisters | Masha Kulygina | <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> | ||
| 2014 | The Real Thing | Annie | American Airlines Theatre | <ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> | |
| 2017 | Damn Yankees | Lola | Stephen Sondheim Theatre |
Awards and nominationsEdit
ReferencesEdit
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Book sourcesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Berkshire, Geoff. "'Dark Knight' Q&A: Maggie Gyllenhaal." Chicago Metromix. July 13, 2008. Accessed December 15, 2008.
- Blanks, Tim. "Maggie Gyllenhaal." Interview Magazine. November 17, 2008. Accessed January 13, 2009.
- Brinton, Jessica. "Maggie Gyllenhaal's rising star." The Times. July 20, 2008. Accessed February 22. 2022.
- DiLiberto, Rebecca. "Finding her place in a new world order." The Boston Globe. July 22, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Fischer, Paul. "Maggie Gyllenhaal Dark Knight Interview." Femail. Accessed October 9, 2008.
- Freydkin, Donna. "'Dark Knight' puts spotlight on publicity-shunning Gyllenhaal." USA Today. July 13, 2008. Accessed February 22. 2022.
- Freydkin, Donna. "Gyllenhaal does something for herself: Star in 'Crazy Heart'." USA Today. January 3, 2010. Accessed February 22. 2022.
- Head, Steve. "Happy Endings for Ms. Gyllenhaal." IGN. January 3, 2005. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Heyman, Marshall. "The Pictures: Sad-Eyed Siblings." New York Magazine. July 22, 2002. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Lawrence, Will. "Lady of the Knight." Sunday Herald. September 27, 2008. Accessed February 22. 2022.
- Kelly, Nick. "A light that never goes out." Irish Independent. July 25, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Lytal, Cristy. "THEPERFORMANCE." Los Angeles Times. July 17, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Rees, Serena. "Maggie Gyllenhaal: Romantic chemistry." The Daily Telegraph. May 9, 2007. Accessed September 27, 2008.
- Riggs, Jonathan. "Maggie Begins." Instinct Magazine. August 1, 2005. Accessed December 14, 2008.
- Rosen, Alison. "The Hot Seat–Maggie Gyllenhaal." Time Out New York. Issue 570: August 31 – September 6, 2006. Accessed December 14, 2008.
- Schwartz, Missy. "Maggie, Maybe... ." Entertainment Weekly. July 28, 2006. Accessed May 28, 2009.
- Snook, Raven. "Features–Maggie Gyllenhaal interview." Time Out New York Kids. Issue 38: December 1–30, 2008.
- Stewart, Sara. "Maggie Gyllenhaal." New York Post. July 6, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2022.
- Wolf, Jeanne. "Maggie Gyllenhaal Is No Stay At Home Mom." Parade. July 11, 2008. Accessed February 22, 2022.
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