Jake Gyllenhaal, an American actor, was born in Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Jake Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor who was born on December 19, 1980. He is the son of filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal and author Naomi Foner; his older sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, is also a member of the Gyllenhaal family. He began acting as a kid, first in City Slickers (1991) and then in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1994). (1998). In October Sky (1999), he played Homer Hickam, and in Donnie Darko, he played a psychologically unstable adolescent (2001).
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