Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaalis an American actor. A member of the Gyllenhaal family and the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting as a child with a screen debut in City Slickers, followed by roles in A Dangerous Womanand Homegrown. His breakthrough performance was as Homer Hickam in October Skyand he garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for playing the title character in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko, in which...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 December 1980
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
There's no shame in somebody who doesn't necessarily do that job knowing a little bit more in that instance than you might know about your own job, you know, and I think that is where movies are such a collaborative art form.
My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.
I'm open to whatever people want to call me.
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.
In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.
I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.
To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.
It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
As a producer, you have an opportunity to see the whole and bring people together.
I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself.
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
As an actor, no matter what, you're at the whim of so many other people all the time.
I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.