
Acting
Community Rating
6.8
TMDB estimate
Born
December 19, 1980 (age 45)
Born in
Los Angeles, California, USA
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.

Spider-Man: Far From Home
Quentin Beck / Mysterio
2019

The Bride!
Ronnie Reed
2026

Road House
Dalton
2024

Prisoners
Detective Loki
2013

Zodiac
Robert Graysmith
2007

Nightcrawler
Louis Bloom
2014

Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
2001

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
Master Sergeant John Kinley
2023

Brokeback Mountain
Jack Twist
2005

Life
Dr. David Jordan
2017

Love & Other Drugs
Jamie Randall
2010

Brothers
Tommy Cahill
2009

Southpaw
Billy 'The Great' Hope
2015

Source Code
Colter Stevens
2011

The Day After Tomorrow
Sam Hall
2004

Jarhead
Anthony Swofford
2005

Everest
Scott Fischer
2015

Okja
Johnny Wilcox
2017

End of Watch
Brian Taylor
2012

In the Grey
Michael Harris
2026