Age: 48
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Margalit 'Maggie' Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received critical acclaim for her leading performances in the erotic romantic drama Secretary (2002) and the drama Sherrybaby (2006), each of which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. After several commercially successful films in 2006, including World Trade Center, she received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008). For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the comedies and dramas: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), and Won't Back Down (2012). Her other roles include a Secret Service agent in the action-thriller White House Down (2013), a musician in Frank (2014), and the title role in the drama The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). In 2021, she made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, for which she won the Venice International Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman. For her performance, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–19). She has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children together.
David Axelrod, an intelligent and intensely passionate teenager from an affluent New York family, becomes consumed by his relationship with Jade Butterfield, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy, unconventional family whose bohemian home feels to him like a world he was destined to enter. What begins as an exhilarating first love gradually becomes an all-encompassing obsession as David grows increasingly dependent on Jade and fascinated by her entire family, unable to distinguish intimacy from possession. When Jade's parents separate the young couple and David's desperate attempt to remain part of their lives culminates in a devastating act of arson, a fire destroys the Butterfield home and leaves David institutionalized. Years later, released and struggling to construct an ordinary life beyond the tragedy, David remains haunted by Jade and the version of their romance he has preserved in his mind. As he confronts the difference between loving someone and needing them to complete your identity, David must finally accept that the love he considered eternal may belong to the past—and that moving forward means allowing Jade to exist beyond the story he created around her.
