Maggie Gyllenhaal
Margalit "Maggie" Ruth Gyllenhaal (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. Gyllenhaal began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Gyllenhaal received critical acclaim for her leading performances in the erotic romantic comedy drama Secretary (2002) and the drama Sherrybaby (2006), each of which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. After several commercially successful films in 2006, including World Trade Center, she 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 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the comedies and dramas: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), and Won't Back Down (2012). Her other roles include a Secret Service agent in the action-thriller White House Down (2013), a musician in Frank (2014), and the title role in the drama The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). In 2021, Gyllenhaal made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, for which she won the Venice International Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Gyllenhaal has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman. For her performance, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–19). Gyllenhaal has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children together.
Known For
Credits
- 2020 · How To with John Wilson as Self
- 2020 · Best Summer Ever as TV Reporter
- 2020 · Joker: Put on a Happy Face as Self
- 2020 · The Ben Cobb Show as Amun Ra
- 2018 · The Kindergarten Teacher as Lisa Spinelli
- 2018 · Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar as The Bell Jar Reader (voice)
- 2017 · The Deuce as Eileen 'Candy' Merrell
- 2016 · The New Empress as Olive
- 2016 · Home as Ruth
- 2016 · Beauty Mark as Valerie
- 2016 · Chelsea as Self
- 2016 · Starring Austin Pendleton as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · The Honourable Woman as Nessa Stein
- 2014 · Frank as Clara
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · River of Fundament as Hathfertiti
- 2014 · The Sturgeon Queens as Self
- 2013 · The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 · White House Down as Deputy SAIC Carol Finnerty
- 2012 · Won't Back Down as Jamie Fitzpatrick
- 2012 · BAM150 as Self
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self
- 2012 · Honest Trailers as Rachel Dawes (archive footage)
- 2011 · Curiosity as Host
- 2011 · Hysteria as Charlotte Dalrymple
- 2010 · Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang as Isabel Green
- 2009 · Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Away We Go as LN
- 2009 · Heath Ledger: A Tribute as Self
- 2008 · The Dark Knight as Rachel
- 2008 · Gotham Tonight as Rachel Dawes
- 2008 · Voyage to the Bunny Planet as
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · High Falls as April
- 2006 · Stranger Than Fiction as Ana Pascal
- 2006 · Sherrybaby as Sherry Swanson
- 2006 · World Trade Center as Allison Jimeno
- 2006 · Monster House as Zee (voice)
- 2006 · Paris Je T'aime as Liz (Quartier des Enfants Rouges)
- 2006 · Quartier des Enfants-Rouges as Liz
- 2005 · Trust the Man as Elaine
- 2005 · The Great New Wonderful as Emme Keeler
- 2005 · Happy Endings as Jude
- 2005 · The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
- 2004 · The Misbehavers as Self
- 2004 · Donnie Darko: Production Diary as Self
- 2004 · Criminal as Valerie
- 2004 · The Pornographer: A Love Story as Sidney
- 2004 · Strip Search as Linda Sykes
- 2003 · Mona Lisa Smile as Giselle Levy
- 2003 · Casa de los Babys as Jennifer
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as
- 2002 · Confessions of a Dangerous Mind as Debbie
- 2002 · Adaptation. as Caroline Cunningham
- 2002 · Secretary as Lee Holloway
- 2002 · 40 Days and 40 Nights as Sam
- 2001 · Riding in Cars with Boys as Amelia
- 2001 · Band of Brothers as
- 2001 · Donnie Darko as Elizabeth Darko
- 2000 · Cecil B. Demented as Raven
- 2000 · The Photographer as Mira
- 1999 · Independent Lens as
- 1999 · Resurrection as Mary
- 1998 · Homegrown as Christina
- 1998 · The Patron Saint of Liars as Lorraine Thomas
- 1997 · The View as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1996 · Shattered Mind as Clothes Clerk
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · A Dangerous Woman as Patsy
- 1993 · Late Show with David Letterman as Self
- 1992 · Waterland as Maggie Ruth
- 1992 · The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as
- 1991 · Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story as Noreen Bixler
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1953 · The Oscars as Self