Age: 48
female
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.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Elena Nikolas
for Elena Nikolas in Santa Barbara (2004–2013)
Suggested by chris83
Passion ignites in California's most exclusive coastal enclave, where old money clashes with new ambition and secrets fester beneath sun-drenched facades. The Perkins, Andrade, Capwell, and Lockridge families navigate treacherous waters—forbidden romances, corporate warfare, and dark conspiracies that threaten to unravel their carefully constructed lives. A woman returns to town with dangerous knowledge. A murder investigation reopens old wounds. Alliances fracture. Loyalties shatter. In Santa Barbara, nothing is ever truly resolved—only postponed, buried deeper, waiting to explode. Behind the manicured gardens and marble mansions, characters scheme, seduce, and betray one another with calculated precision. Love becomes a weapon. Family becomes a liability. And the question isn't whether secrets will surface—it's whose world will burn when they do. In this world of wealth and privilege, survival demands ruthlessness. Redemption remains perpetually out of reach.
