Maggie Gyllenhaal
Acteur·rice
16 novembre 1977 · 48 years old
Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA
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
As an actor
Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom
2025 · Narrator (voice)
Best Summer Ever
2020 · TV Reporter
Joker: Put on a Happy Face
2020 · Self
How To with John Wilson
2020 · Self
The Ben Cobb Show
2019 · Amun Ra
The Kindergarten Teacher
2018 · Lisa Spinelli
Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar
2018 · The Bell Jar Reader (voice)
The Deuce
2017 · Eileen 'Candy' Merrell
Home
2016 · Ruth
The New Empress
2016 · Olive
Beauty Mark
2016 · Valerie
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016 · Self
Chelsea
2016 · Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest
Frank
2014 · Clara
River of Fundament
2014 · Hathfertiti
The Sturgeon Queens
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Honourable Woman
2014 · Nessa Stein
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self, Self - Guest
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
White House Down
2013 · Finnerty
Won't Back Down
2012 · Jamie Fitzpatrick
BAM150
2012 · Self
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self
Hysteria
2011 · Charlotte Dalrymple
Curiosity
2011 · Host
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010 · Isabel Green
Crazy Heart
2009 · Jean Craddock
Heath Ledger: A Tribute
2009 · Self
Away We Go
2009 · LN
Live from Studio Five
2009 · Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
The Dark Knight
2008 · Rachel
Voyage to the Bunny Planet
2008
Gotham Tonight
2008 · Rachel Dawes
High Falls
2007 · April
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
Stranger Than Fiction
2006 · Ana Pascal
Paris Je T'aime
2006 · Liz (Quartier des Enfants Rouges)
World Trade Center
2006 · Allison Jimeno
Monster House
2006 · Zee (voice)
Sherrybaby
2006 · Sherry Swanson
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges
2006 · Liz
The Great New Wonderful
2005 · Emme Keeler
Trust the Man
2005 · Elaine
Happy Endings
2005 · Jude
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Criminal
2004 · Valerie
Strip Search
2004 · Linda Sykes
The Misbehavers
2004 · Self
The Pornographer: A Love Story
2004 · Sidney
Mona Lisa Smile
2003 · Giselle Levy
Casa de los Babys
2003 · Jennifer
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
40 Days and 40 Nights
2002 · Sam
Adaptation.
2002 · Caroline Cunningham
Secretary
2002 · Lee Holloway
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002 · Debbie
Donnie Darko
2001 · Elizabeth Darko
Riding in Cars with Boys
2001 · Amelia
Cecil B. Demented
2000 · Raven
The Photographer
2000 · Mira
Resurrection
1999 · Mary
Independent Lens
1999
The Patron Saint of Liars
1998 · Lorraine Thomas
Homegrown
1998 · Christina
The View
1997 · Self, Self - Guest
Shattered Mind
1996 · Clothes Clerk
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
A Dangerous Woman
1993 · Patsy
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self
Waterland
1992 · Maggie Ruth
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story
1991 · Noreen Bixler
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Oscars
1953 · Self
