Maggie Gyllenhaal

Biography

Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal Sarsgaard (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, nominations for two Academy Awards, and two British Academy Film Awards. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films. She appeared with her brother in the thriller Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Gyllenhaal received praise for her leading performances in the dramas Secretary (2002) and Sherrybaby (2006), both of which earned her  Golden Globe Award nominations. She had commercial success in the thriller World Trade Center (2006). She received wider recognition for her role as Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008). For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the films Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), Won't Back Down (2012), White House Down (2013), Frank (2014), and The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014), which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and a  Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–2019). Gyllenhaal made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter (2021), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Screenplay. She has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Daily Show

The Graham Norton Show

Late Show with David Letterman

All Movies (53)

• Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom2025 · as Narrator (voice)
• Best Summer Ever2020 · as TV Reporter
• Joker: Put on a Happy Face2020 · as Self
• The Ben Cobb Show2019 · as Amun Ra
• The Kindergarten Teacher2018 · as Lisa Spinelli
• Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar2018 · as The Bell Jar Reader (voice)
• Home2016 · as Ruth
• The New Empress2016 · as Olive
• Beauty Mark2016 · as Valerie
• Starring Austin Pendleton2016 · as Self
• Frank2014 · as Clara
• River of Fundament2014 · as Hathfertiti
• The Sturgeon Queens2014 · as Self
• White House Down2013 · as Finnerty
• Won't Back Down2012 · as Jamie Fitzpatrick
• BAM1502012 · as Self
• Hysteria2011 · as Charlotte Dalrymple
• Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang2010 · as Isabel Green
• Crazy Heart2009 · as Jean Craddock
• Away We Go2009 · as LN
• Heath Ledger: A Tribute2009 · as Self
• The Dark Knight2008 · as Rachel
• Voyage to the Bunny Planet2008
• High Falls2007 · as April
• Stranger Than Fiction2006 · as Ana Pascal
• Sherrybaby2006 · as Sherry Swanson
• World Trade Center2006 · as Allison Jimeno
• Monster House2006 · as Zee (voice)
• Paris Je T'aime2006 · as Liz (Quartier des Enfants Rouges)
• Quartier des Enfants-Rouges2006 · as Liz
• Trust the Man2005 · as Elaine
• The Great New Wonderful2005 · as Emme Keeler
• Happy Endings2005 · as Jude
• The Misbehavers2004 · as Self
• Criminal2004 · as Valerie
• The Pornographer: A Love Story2004 · as Sidney
• Strip Search2004 · as Linda Sykes
• Mona Lisa Smile2003 · as Giselle Levy
• Casa de los Babys2003 · as Jennifer
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002 · as Debbie
• Adaptation.2002 · as Caroline Cunningham
• Secretary2002 · as Lee Holloway
• 40 Days and 40 Nights2002 · as Sam
• Riding in Cars with Boys2001 · as Amelia
• Donnie Darko2001 · as Elizabeth Darko
• Cecil B. Demented2000 · as Raven
• The Photographer2000 · as Mira
• Resurrection1999 · as Mary
• Homegrown1998 · as Christina
• The Patron Saint of Liars1998 · as Lorraine Thomas
• Shattered Mind1996 · as Clothes Clerk
• A Dangerous Woman1993 · as Patsy
• Waterland1992 · as Maggie Ruth

All TV Shows (28)

• How To with John Wilson2020 · as Self
• The Deuce2017 · as Eileen 'Candy' Merrell
• Chelsea2016 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self - Guest
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors2014 · as Self
• The Honourable Woman2014 · as Nessa Stein
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
• Finding Your Roots2012 · as Self
• Curiosity2011 · as Host
• Live from Studio Five2009 · as Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen2009 · as Self - Guest
• Gotham Tonight2008 · as Rachel Dawes
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Independent Lens1999
• The View1997 · as Self
• The View1997 · as Self - Guest
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• Late Show with David Letterman1993 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story1991 · as Noreen Bixler
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark1988
• The Oscars1953 · as Self