Jake Gyllenhaal Biography
Jake Gyllenhaal is a well-known American actor. As a toddler, he began acting in City Slickers (1991), followed by appearances in his father’s films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). In October Sky (1999), he played Homer Hickam, and in Donnie Darko (2001), he played a psychologically unstable adolescent.
Jake Gyllenhaal Age
He was born Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal in December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Jake is 42 years old as of December 2022.
Jake Gyllenhaal Education
He attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, where he graduated in 1998. He attended Columbia University for two years to study Eastern religions and philosophy before dropping out to focus on his acting career.
Jake Gyllenhaal Height
Jake stands at a height of 6’0″ (183 cm) tall.
Jake Gyllenhaal Family- Sister
He is the son of screenwriter Naomi Foner and film director Stephen Gyllenhaal. Because of his parents’ jobs in the film industry, he was always exposed to it as a child. Maggie Gyllenhaal is his sister.
Jake Gyllenhaal Wife- Married
Gyllenhaal began dating actress Kirsten Dunst in 2002; they ended their relationship on good terms in 2004.From 2007 to 2009, he dated Rendition co-star Reese Witherspoon. From October 2010 to January 2011, he was in a relationship with singer-songwriter Taylor Swift .From July through December 2013, and model Alyssa Miller were together. Gyllenhaal has been seeing French model Jeanne Cadieu since late 2018.
Jake Gyllenhaal Career
He played Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who becomes a NASA engineer by pure determination and hard work in ‘October Sky’ in 1999. The film was a box office success, and his performance was lauded as his “breakout performance.” In 2001, he starred in ‘Donnie Darko,’ his second significant film. He played a troubled adolescent who, after nearly avoiding death, had repeated visions of a huge rabbit named Frank telling him that the world is ending. The film became a cult classic. In 2004, he starred as Sam Hall in ‘The Day After Tomorrow,’ a science fiction catastrophe film depicting the disastrous repercussions of global warming through a series of extreme weather occurrences.
In the epic romance ‘Broekback Mountain,’ he played Jack Twist, a man who has a complex romantic and sexual relationship with another man. For this portrayal, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2005, he appeared in two more successful films. In the biographical drama war picture ‘Jarhead,’ he played Andrew alongside Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper. He co-starred with Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow in the drama film ‘Proof’ as Harold Dobbs. In 2007, he portrayed criminal reporter Robert Graysmith in the mystery thriller ‘Zodiac,’ which was based on the manhunt for the legendary serial killer known as ‘Zodiac,’ who murdered many individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He appeared in the 2009 thriller picture ‘Brothers,’ alongside Tobey Maguire and Natalie Portman. The film was inspired by Homer’s epic poem ‘The Odyssey’ and was set in Afghanistan and Denmark. He starred alongside Anne Hathaway in the romantic comedy ‘Love & Other Drugs’ (2010). Jamie Reidy’s nonfiction book ‘Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman’ served as the inspiration for the film.
Jake Gyllenhaal Net Worth
Jake has an estimated net worth of 80 million dollars as of 2023.
Jake Gyllenhaal Movies
1. Prisoners (2013)
2. Donnie Darko (2001)
3. Source Code (2011)
4. Nightcrawler (2014)
5. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
6. Stronger (2017)
7. Zodiac (2007)
8. October Sky (1999)
9. End of Watch (2012)
10. Southpaw (2015)
