Age: 45
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Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor and producer. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner; his older sister is actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He began acting as a child, making his acting debut in City Slickers (1991), followed by roles in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). His breakthrough roles were as Homer Hickam in October Sky (1999) and as a psychologically troubled teenager in Donnie Darko (2001). In 2004, Gyllenhaal starred in the science fiction disaster film The Day After Tomorrow. In 2005, he played Jack Twist in Ang Lee's romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, for which Gyllenhaal won a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. His career progressed with starring roles in the thriller Zodiac (2007), the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs (2010), and the science fiction film Source Code (2011). Further acclaim came with his roles in Denis Villeneuve's thrillers Prisoners (2013) and Enemy (2013), and he received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances as a manipulative journalist in Nightcrawler (2014) and a troubled writer in Nocturnal Animals (2016). His highest-grossing release came with the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he portrayed Quentin Beck / Mysterio. Gyllenhaal has also performed on stage, starring in Broadway productions of the musical Sunday in the Park with George as well as the plays Constellations and Sea Wall/A Life, the lattermost of which earned him a Tony Award nomination. Aside from acting, he is vocal about political and social issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jake Gyllenhaal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Mysterio
for Mysterio in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2022)
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Columbia Pictures/Marvel Studios & AGBO present In association with G-Base & Tencent Pictures A Pascal Pictures/Thunder Road Pictures & Electric Pictures production Spider-Man: No Way Home M (Mature themes, action violence, sustained threat and infrequent coarse language) Synopsis: After the events of Spider-Man: Far from Home, global fugitive Peter Parker, hunted by the Spider-Man Task Force (SMTF) and recently dumped by MJ, has given up being Spider-Man and gone into hiding. One year later around the holiday season, a lonely and embittered Peter is approached in Reykjavík by a vigilante squad called the Wild Pack and reluctantly agrees to help them take down a assassin called the Arachne but when he finds out that the target is Jessica Drew, a ageless yet tragic individual with similar powers to Peter and more to her past than previously thought, he ends up forming a unlikely bond with her that encourages him to take his life back. Meanwhile, Aunt May, MJ, Ned and Happy, whose lives have not changed for the best in Peter’s absence, team up with the Spider Society and Matt Murdock on a journey to find a way to clear Peter’s name all the while psychopathic businesswoman Norma Osborn hires a group of old foes and a vengeful shadow from Peter’s family history to capture both Peter and Jessica for sinister purposes. Genre: Christmas science fiction action adventure dramedy superhero Length: 3 hours and 40 minutes
