Jake Gyllenhaal

43, from Los Angeles, California, USA

Artwork for Spider-Man: No Way HomeImage of Jake Gyllenhaal

Biography

Jacob Benjamin 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.

Timeline

2025Future projects

2024Aged 44

  • Poster for Road House

    Elwood Dalton

2023Aged 43

  • Poster for Guy Ritchie's The Covenant

    Master Sergeant John Kinley

  • Poster for Reality

    Thanks

2022Aged 42

  • Poster for Ambulance

    Danny Sharp

  • Poster for Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Strange World

    Searcher Clade (voice)

2021Aged 41

  • Poster for Spirit Untamed

    Jim Prescott (voice)

  • Poster for The Guilty

    Joe Baylor

  • Poster for Spider-Man: No Way Home

    Mysterio / Quentin Beck (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Poster for Breaking News in Yuba County

    Producer

2020Aged 40

  • Poster for Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration

    Self - Performer

  • Poster for The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America

    Himself

  • Poster for One Night Only: The Best of Broadway

    Self

  • Poster for Relic

    Producer

  • Poster for The Devil All the Time

    Producer

  • Poster for Joe Bell

    Executive Producer

2019Aged 39

  • Poster for Velvet Buzzsaw

    Morf Vandewalt

  • Poster for Spider-Man: Far From Home

    Quentin Beck / Mysterio

  • Poster for John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch

    Mr. Music

  • Poster for Running with Beto

    Thanks

2018Aged 38

  • Poster for The Sisters Brothers

    John Morris

  • Poster for Wildlife

    Jerry Brinson

  • Poster for Hondros

    Executive Producer

2017Aged 37

  • Poster for Life

    Dr. David Jordan

  • Poster for Okja

    Dr. Johnny Wilcox

  • Poster for Stronger

    Jeff Bauman

  • Poster for Great Performers: Horror Show

    The Damned

2016Aged 36

  • Poster for Nocturnal Animals

    Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings

  • Poster for Deus ex Machina: The Philosophy of 'Donnie Darko'

    Self

2015Aged 35

  • Poster for Accidental Love

    Howard Birdwell

  • Poster for Southpaw

    Billy 'The Great' Hope

  • Poster for Demolition

    Davis Mitchell

  • Poster for Everest

    Scott Fischer

  • Poster for A Bigger Splash

    Thanks

2014Aged 34

  • Poster for Enemy

    Adam Bell / Anthony Claire

  • Poster for Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy

    Self

  • Poster for Nightcrawler

    Louis Bloom

  • Poster for Break Point

    Thanks

2013Aged 33

  • Poster for Prisoners

    Detective Loki

2012Aged 32

2011Aged 31

  • Poster for Source Code

    Colter Stevens

2010Aged 30

2009Aged 29

  • Poster for Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler

    Frank O'Connor (archive footage)

  • Poster for Heath Ledger: A Tribute

    Self

  • Poster for Brothers

    Tommy Cahill

2007Aged 27

  • Poster for Zodiac

    Robert Graysmith

  • Poster for Rendition

    Douglas Freeman

2005Aged 25

  • Poster for The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Proof

    Harold 'Hal' Dobbs

  • Poster for Brokeback Mountain

    Jack Twist

  • Poster for Jarhead

    Anthony Swofford

  • Poster for Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

    Thanks

2004Aged 24

  • Poster for The Day After Tomorrow

    Sam Hall

  • Poster for Donnie Darko: Production Diary

    Self

2003Aged 23

  • Poster for Abby Singer

    Self (uncredited)

2002Aged 22

  • Poster for The Good Girl

    Holden Worther

  • Poster for Highway

    Pilot Kelson

  • Poster for Moonlight Mile

    Joe Nast

2001Aged 21

  • Poster for Donnie Darko

    Donnie Darko

  • Poster for Bubble Boy

    Jimmy Livingston

  • Poster for Lovely & Amazing

    Jordan

1999Aged 19

  • Poster for October Sky

    Homer Hickam

1998Aged 18

  • Poster for Homegrown

    Jake

1993Aged 13

  • Poster for A Dangerous Woman

    Edward

  • Poster for Josh and S.A.M.

    Leon Coleman

1991Aged 11

  • Poster for City Slickers

    Danny Robbins

Year unknown