Maggie Gyllenhaal


Margalit Ruth Maggie Gyllenhaal is an American actress. She is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her film career as a teenager with roles in her fathers films and appeared alongside her brother in the psychological horror film Donnie Darko . She garnered critical praise for starring as Lee Holloway in Secretary , for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. For her performance in Sherrybaby , she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama. She also received recognition for starring as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight . For her performance in the musicaldrama Crazy Heart , she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang , Wont Back Down and Frank , for which she was nominated for a BIFA Award.

Gyllenhaal was born in New York City, the daughter of Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and Stephen Gyllenhaal. Her father is a film director and writer and her mother is a screenwriter. She has one sibling, actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Her father, who was raised in the Swedenborgian religion, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and is a member of the Gyllenhaal family. Her last native Swedish ancestor was her greatgreatgrandfather Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborgs writings. Her mother was born in New York City, and is from a Jewish family . Her mothers first husband was Eric Foner, a noted historian and history professor at Columbia University. Gyllenhaal has stated that she grew up mostly Jewish, culturally, though she did not attend Hebrew school. Her parents married in 1977, and filed for divorce in October 2008. The first name on Maggies birth certificate is Margalit, which she did not dis

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