Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal is an American actress and film producer. She is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllanhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of fellow actor Jake Gyllinhaal. As a teenager, she appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko. She received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight. In 2014, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce.
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Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and film producer. She is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllanhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of fellow actor Jake Gyllinhaal. As a teenager, she appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko. She received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in Christopher Nolan’s 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight. For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart, she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2014, she made her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce. She has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children together. Her father is a film director and poet, and her mother is a screenwriter and director. Her mother was born in New York City and is Jewish, from families that emigrated from Russia and Poland. She identifies as Jewish, though she did not attend Hebrew school. Her last native Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather Anders Leonard GyllENhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg’s writings. Her parents married in 1977, and filed for divorce in October 2008. She grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the Harvard–Westlake prep school. In 1995, she moved to New York to attend Columbia University, where she studied literature and Eastern religions.
She made her theatrical debut in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Patrick Marber’s Closer. After graduating from college, she had supporting roles in films including Cecil Bement’s Demented and Riding in Cars with Gyllene. She later achieved recognition in her own right playing her real brother’s on-screen sister’s onscreen sister in On The Road. She starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman. In addition to film and theatre, she has appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including The Kindergarten Teacher. In 2012, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in White House Down. In 2013, she played a Secret Service agent in Frank, and in 2014’s Frank, playing a musician. She appeared in the Broadway production of Closer, which ended in mid-July and ended in May-July 2014. She had a brief appearance in A Homegrown, which featured her father, her brother Jake, and an Italian cooking show with their mother, Mario Molto Mario, on the Food Network. Her brother Jake also appeared in two episodes of MoltoMario’s cooking show, With Their Mother, On The Food Network, which she and Jake appeared in with their father, Mario, and their mother on the food network. In 2011, she starred in A Dangerous Woman, which was directed by her father.
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