Jake Gyllenhaal Biography
Jake Gyllenhaal is an Oscar-nominated actor known for his work in films like ‘Donnie Darko,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘Prisoners’ and ‘Nightcrawler.’ He was born to producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner(née Achs) and director Stephen Gyllenhaal. He is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko (2001).
Some of Gyllenhaal’s earlier films included City Slickers, in which he played Billy Crystal’s son, and A Dangerous Woman, directed by his father. The young Gyllenhaal graduated from Los Angeles’ Harvard-Westlake High School and studied for a year at Columbia University in New York before dropping out to pursue acting.
Jake Gyllenhaal Age
Jake was born as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal on December 19, 1980. He is currently 39 years old.
Jake Gyllenhaal Wife
Gyllenhaal has never been married. He has dated actress Kirsten Dunst from 2002 to 2004. He was linked to actress Reese Witherspoon in 2007 and later dated singer Taylor Swift in 2010 and model Alyssa Miller in 2013. Jake also had a romantic relationship with Oscar winner, Natalie Portman. Jake is currently dating Jeanne Cadieu since June 2018. Jeanne Cadieu is a French model. Their relationship is yet to be confirmed but the couple has been seen together in public.
Jake Gyllenhaal Net Worth
Gyllenhaal has an estimated net worth of $65 million. Jake made his fortune from illustrations of Hollywood career as well as advocacy deals. Jake Gyllenhaal was also the brand ambassador of Calvin Klein’s fragrance known as Eternity. Gyllenhaal has won several awards in the course of his career such as the 2006 Bafta Award for Best Supporting Actor. This was his role in Brokeback Mountain.
Jake Gyllenhaal Movies
Velvet Buzzsaw (Movie) Morf Vandewalt 2019
Spider-Man: Far From Home (Movie) Quentin Beck / Mysterio 2019
ES.TV (TV Show)
10-23-2017 — 2017
09-28-2017 — 2017
2017
Life (Movie) John McKay 2017
Okja (Movie) Johnny Wilcox 2017
Southpaw (Movie) Billy “The Great” Hope 2015
Nightcrawler (Movie) Lou Bloom 2014
Prisoners (Movie) Detective Loki 2013
Enemy (Movie) Adam + Anthony 2013
End Of Watch (Movie) Officer Taylor 2012
Source Code (Movie) Captain Colter Stevens 2011
Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (Movie) Dastan 2010
Love And Other Drugs (Movie) Jamie Randall 2010
Brothers (Movie) Tommy Cahill 2009
Zodiac (Movie) Robert Graysmith 2007
Rendition (Movie) Douglas Freeman 2007
Jiminy Glick In Lalawood (Movie) Himself 2005
Proof (Movie) Hal 2005
Jarhead (Movie) Swoff 2005
Brokeback Mountain (Movie) Jack Twist 2005
The Day After Tomorrow (Movie) Sam Hall 2004
The Good Girl (Movie) Holden Worther 2002
Moonlight Mile (Movie) Joe Nast 2002
Bubble Boy (Movie) Jimmy Livingston 2001
Donnie Darko (Movie) Donnie Darko 2001
Lovely & Amazing (Movie) Jordan 2001
October Sky (Movie) Homer Hickman 1999
Homegrown (Movie) Jake/Blue Kahan 1998
City Slickers (Movie) Daniel Robbins 1991
Jake Gyllenhaal Children
Gyllenhaal does not have any children but has publicly expressed his desire to be a dad one day.
Jake Gyllenhaal Sister
His sister Maggie is an accomplished actress and director. She has featured in movies such as Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight, Crazy Heart, and White House Down. Maggie is married to fellow actor Peter Sarsgaard and they have two children together. Jake and his sister survived a hotel fire in December 2006 in Manka’s Inverness lodge in California.
Jake Gyllenhaal Height
Gyllenhaal is 5 feet 11 inches tall.
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Inside the Making of Sea Wall/A Life With Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge
In Broadway’s Sea Wall/A Life, Jake Gyllenhaal—the movie star who’s recently been transforming himself in movies like Nightcrawler or Spider-Man: Far From Home—does something that feels new in its simplicity. His performance in the monologue A Life is intimate and character-free, playing a man facing the parallels between the death of his father and the birth of his newborn child (neither of which, it should be noted, Gyllenhaal has experienced firsthand).
“The work that I always try and do is very, very detailed,” says director Carrie Cracknell, who worked with both Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge, who performs the play’s first monologue, Sea Wall. “We talk a lot about the moment to moment, and I think what we constructed was a set of shared aims about the aesthetic of performance and the fact that we wanted it to feel very naturalistic.”
Cracknell recalls the rehearsal process—seen here in these exclusive photos provided to Vanity Fair—as a sort of “mania,” a period of exploring, reimagining, and playing, despite the grim subject matter. (Sturridge plays a father and husband who’s left facing down his grief after a family holiday takes a tragic turn). The production debuted in a limited, sold-out run at the Public Theater earlier this year, and opened in previews at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre last week. “It was often just me and one of the actors, and it would sort of veer between total hysteria—I mean, genuinely—and kind of hilariously, and almost stand-up.
They would be—both of them, particularly Jake—playing and kind of doing stupid voices and dancing around the room, and then would sort of drop in to this very, very emotionally vulnerable work,” Cracknell explains. “It was interesting because I think we were trying to hold this duality the whole time about it being really funny—elements of it are like stand-up. And then it’s touching something really real. There was this constant sense of exploration.”
She recalls how Gyllenhaal at one point tested his entire monologue at a stand-up mic; Sturridge once came in and played a whole piano set before getting to work for the day. There was even a week when Gyllenhaal’s dog, Leo, was proposed as a costar.