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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).
Rogues Gallery is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics supervillain team of the same name. Produced by Christopher Nolan and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is intended to be the first installment in the DC Dark Universe (DCDU). The film is being directed by James Mangold and stars an ensemble cast including Scarlett Johansson, Jason Isaacs, James McAvoy, Jon Hamm, Sean Harris, Tom Hiddleston, Evan Rachel Wood, and Josh Gad as the Rogues Gallery, alongside Jeff Daniels, Denzel Washington, Richard Armitage, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Madsen returning as Harvey Bullock.
