Jacob Benjamin Jake Gyllenhaal
Date of Birth : 19 December 1980
Date of Birth : 19 December 1980
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal started acting at the age of ten. Following his first lead role in October Sky (1999), he starred in the indie cult hit Donnie Darko (2001), in which he played a psychologically troubled teen alongside his older sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal. In 2002, he starred in some other indie movie, the coolest woman. In 2004, he appeared within the climate fiction-catastrophe movie The Day After day after today, portraying a scholar stuck in a cataclysmic weather occasion.
Gyllenhaal performed a pissed off Marine in Jarhead (2005), and the equal yr, his function as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain earned him vital acclaim. For his Brokeback Mountain overall performance, he gained the BAFTA Award for great helping Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award in the identical class. He has given that performed lead roles in lots of movies, inclusive of Zodiac (2007), Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), Love & other drugs (2010), supply Code (2011), end of Watch (2012), Prisoners (2013), Nightcrawler (2014), and Southpaw (2015).