Jake gyllenhaal biography film

Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor who has appeared in over 35 motion pictures (including some yet to be released), three television programs, one commercial, and four music videos.

He made his film debut in with a minor role in the comedy-dramaCity Slickers.^[1] In , he appeared in A Dangerous Woman, a motion picture adaptation directed by Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal and co-written by his mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal that was based on the novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris.

In the following year, he portrayed Robin Williams' son in an episode of the police procedural television series Homicide: Life on the Street; the episode was directed by his father.^[2] In , Gyllenhaal starred in the Joe Johnston-directed drama October Sky; the film was received warmly by critics,^[2] and Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the NASA engineer Homer Hickam was praised.^[3]

In , he appeared in the