My Movies

Jacob Benjamin “Jake” Gyllenhaal is an actor best known for his role as Jack Twist in the epic romantic drama ‘Brokeback Mountain’ which earned him an Academy award nomination for Best Supporting Actor

My Career

Actor Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, better known as Jake Gyllenhaal, was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner, Jake and his sister Maggie have been acting since childhood. Some of Gyllenhaal’s earlier films included City Slickers, in which he played Billy Crystal’s son, and A Dangerous Woman, directed by his father. In order to make the trandformation from child to adult actor, Gyllenhaal purposefully passed over teen fare for such films as 1999’s October Sky and Donnie Darko (2001), co-starring Drew Barrymore and sister Maggie, for which he earned…

My Journey

In order to make the trandformation from child to adult actor, Gyllenhaal purposefully passed over teen fare for such films as 1999’s October Sky and Donnie Darko (2001), co-starring Drew Barrymore and sister Maggie, for which he earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination. Several of the roles that followed echoed former projects in complexity: Gyllenhaal played Jennifer Aniston’s troubled love interest in The Good Girl (2002), while in Moonlight Mile (2002), the actor portrayed a young man grieving over the death of his fiancee along with her family. In spring 2002, Gyllenhaal also starred on the London stage in Kenneth…