Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. In 2005, he played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. Gyllenhaal has also performed on stage, starring in Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George as well as the plays Constellations and Sea Wall/A Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Remain — Tate Gordon
• 2026In the Grey — Bronco
• 2026The Bride! — Ronnie Reed
• 2025Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction — Raoul Wallenberg (voice)
• Presumed Innocent — Rozat 'Rusty' Sabich, Executive Producer
• 2024Road House — Dalton
• Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae — Executive Producer
• 2023Guy Ritchie's The Covenant — Master Sergeant John Kinley
• 2023Reality — Thanks
• 2022Ambulance — Danny Sharp
• 2022Strange World — Searcher Clade (voice)
• 2021Breaking News in Yuba County — Producer
• 2021Show of Titles — "Camelot" Performer
• 2021Spider-Man: No Way Home — Quentin Beck / Mysterio (archive footage)
• 2021Spirit Untamed — Jim Prescott (voice)
• 2021The Guilty — Joe Baylor, Producer
• 2020Joe Bell — Executive Producer
• 2020Relic — Producer
• 2020The Devil All the Time — Producer
• 2020The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America — Jake Gyllenhaal
• 2019Annaleigh Ashford: Live from Lincoln Center — Special Guest Star
• 2019John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch — Mr. Music
• 2019Running with Beto — Thanks
• 2019Spider-Man: Far From Home — Quentin Beck / Mysterio
• The Daily Bugle — Quentin Beck / Mysterio
• 2019Velvet Buzzsaw — Morf Vandewalt
• Explained — Narrator (voice)
• 2018Hondros — Executive Producer
• 2018The Sisters Brothers — John Morris
• 2018Wildlife — Jerry Brinson, Producer
• 2017Great Performers: Horror Show — The Damned
• 2017Life — Dr. David Jordan
• 2017Okja — Johnny Wilcox
• 2017Stronger — Jeff Bauman, Producer
• 2016Demolition — Davis Mitchell
• 2016Nocturnal Animals — Tony Hastings / Edward Sheffield
• 2015A Bigger Splash — Thanks
• 2015Accidental Love — Howard Birdwell
• 2015Everest — Scott Fischer
• 2015Southpaw — Billy 'The Great' Hope
• 2014Break Point — Thanks
• 2014Enemy — Adam / Anthony
• 2014Nightcrawler — Louis Bloom, Producer
• 2013Prisoners — Detective Loki
• 2012End of Watch — Brian Taylor, Executive Producer
• 2011Source Code — Colter Stevens
• 2010Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — Donnie Darko / Anthony Swafford (archive footage)
• 2010Love & Other Drugs — Jamie Randall
• 2010Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time — Prince Dastan
• 2009Brothers — Tommy Cahill
• 2009Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler — Frank O'Connor (archive footage)
• 2007Rendition — Douglas Freeman
• 2007Zodiac — Robert Graysmith
• 2005Brokeback Mountain — Jack Twist
• 2005Jarhead — Anthony Swofford
• 2005Jiminy Glick in Lalawood — Jake Gyllenhaal, Thanks
• 2005Proof — Harold 'Hal' Dobbs
• 2005The Man Who Walked Between the Towers — Narrator (voice)
• 2004The Day After Tomorrow — Sam Hall
• 2003Abby Singer — Jake Gyllenhaal (uncredited)
• 2002Highway — Pilot Kelson
• 2002Lovely & Amazing — Jordan
• 2002Moonlight Mile — Joe Nast
• 2002The Good Girl — Holden Worther
• 2001Bubble Boy — Jimmy Livingston
• 2001Donnie Darko — Donnie Darko
• 1999October Sky — Homer Hickam
• 1998Homegrown — Jake
• 1993A Dangerous Woman — Edward
• Homicide: Life on the Street — Matt Ellison
• 1993Josh & S.A.M. — Leon Coleman
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• 1991City Slickers — Danny Robbins
• Airman — Producer
• Code Black — Producer
• Collision — Producer
• Fun Home — Producer
• Gilded Rage — Producer
• Honeymoon with Harry
• Kill Switch — Producer
• Lake Success — Barry Cohen, Executive Producer
• Nemesis
• Play by Play — Producer
• Road House 2 — Elwood Dalton, Producer
• Snow Blind
• The Anarchists vs ISIS — Producer
• The Division
• The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob — Producer
• The Man Who Made It Snow — Producer
• Theater of War — Producer

Appearances as themselves (42)

• 2026Generations: The Evolution of Spider-Man — Self - Mysterio (archive footage)
• 2026Lorne — Self
• Actors on Actors: Broadway — Self
• 2025The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards — Self
• 2023A Journey to Sundance — Self
• 2022Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home — Self (archive footage)
• 2020One Night Only: The Best of Broadway — Self
• Reunited Apart — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• 2016Deus ex Machina: The Philosophy of 'Donnie Darko' — Self (archive footage)
• Hot Ones — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• 2014Lucid Dreams: The Making of Enemy — Self
• Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
• Conan — Self
• 2009Heath Ledger: A Tribute — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006"Jarhead" Diaries — Self
• 2006Jarhead: Background — Self
• Man vs. Wild — Self
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2003Moonlight Mile: A Journey to Screen — Self / Joe Nast
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Friday Night with Jonathan Ross — Self - Guest
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• Today — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee