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Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor and musician. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards).
Jeff Daniels
Jerry O'Neill
for Jerry O'Neill in Space Cowboys
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Four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin, Hawk Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill, and Tank Sullivan were top Air Force pilots fast tracked to becoming the first Americans in space in 1958. However, their dream ended when NASA was created. Corvin went to become an aerospace engineer, Hawkins continued as a freelance pilot, O'Neill became an astrophysicist with a side in designing roller coasters, and Sullivan took up preaching as a Baptist minister. Years later, a Russian satellite's guidance system has malfunctioned and is expected to crash into Earth within weeks. The system is identical to one Corvin designed for Skylab, so he is asked to help the emergency mission to repair the satellite. Corvin agrees under one condition -- that he be sent up to do the repairs himself, with Hawkins, O'Neill, and Sullivan as his crew.
