Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor and film producer. He is the son of film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenshaal. His breakthrough performances were as Homer Hickam in October Sky and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko. He won a BAFTA Award and received an Academy Award nomination for playing Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain.
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and film producer. He is the son of film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenshaal. He made his acting debut as Billy Crystal’s son in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. His breakthrough performances were as Homer Hickam in October Sky and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko. He won a BAFTA Award and received an Academy Award nomination for playing Jack Twist in Ang Lee’s romance Brokeback Mountain. His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home, in which he portrayed Mysterio. He 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 WallA Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. In addition to acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. His father, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish and English descent. His last ancestor to be born in Sweden was his great-great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gylleneaal. His mother is Jewish, and was born in New York City to a Jewish family from Russia and Poland. He graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1998, then attended Columbia University, where his sister was a senior and his mother had graduated to study Eastern religions. He eventually dropped out after two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to finish his degree to become a coal miner.
He was born into a wealthy Swedish family. He considers himself Jewish and has said that he considers himself a “Swedish-born” person. He also has a sister, Maggie, who appeared in two episodes of Molto Mario, an Italian cooking show on the Food Network. He appeared in the 1993’s A Dangerous Woman and a 1994 episode of Homicide: Life on the Street; and in the 1998 comedy Homegrown. His parents did not allow him to appear in The Mighty Ducks because it would have required him to leave home for two months. His only other film not directed by his father was the 1993 film Josh and S. A. M., a little-known children’s adventure. He said his parents encouraged artistic expression in certain ways, but in other ways, they were lacking in expression and creativity where my family has always been best at it. His first lead role was in Joe Johnston’s 1999 adaptation of October Sky, Joe’s Boys. He continued to gain acclaim for Denis Villeneuve’s thrillers Prisoners and Enemy, and he received nominations for the BAFTA Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his roles as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals. He starred in the thriller Zodiac, the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs, and the science fiction film Source Code. His most widely seen film to that point was The Day After Tomorrow.
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