Jake Gyllenhaal

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born in Los Angeles, California, to producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner (née Achs) and director Stephen Gyllenhaal. He is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko (2001). His godmother is actress Jamie Lee Curtis. His mother is from a Jewish family, and his father's ancestry includes Swedish, English and Swiss-German. At the age of eleven, Gyllenhaal made his movie debut in the comedy-drama City Slickers (1991), playing Billy Crystal's character's son. He made an impact in various films in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in films such as the period drama October Sky (1999), his breakthrough performance, and as the title role in the psychological thriller Donnie Darko (2001), for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor, playing a psychologically troubled teenager. He followed this with roles encompassing many different genres, including the comedy film, the Disney romantic comedy Bubble Boy (2001); opposite Jennifer Aniston in another Sundance favorite, The Good Girl (2002), as a young man grieving the death of his fiancée in Moonlight Mile (2002), and in the science fiction blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow (2004), portraying a student caught in a cataclysmic climate event, opposite Dennis Quaid. Making his theater debut, Gyllenhaal appeared on the London stage with a starring role in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of "This Is Our Youth". The play was widely-received and played for eight weeks in London's West End. Gyllenhaal followed his successful theater en devour with a role in Jarhead (2005), playing Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, an aggressive and masculine but equally vulnerable and sensitive Marine during the Gulf War, and Proof (2005), as Gwyneth Paltrow's love interest. However, it was his follow-up performance that won critical acclaim in Brokeback Mountain (2005), in which he co-starred with Australian actor Heath Ledger, as sheep herders who fall in love in the 1960s and depicts their relationship over the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. For his role as Jack Twist, Gyllenhaal received critical acclaim and won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role, the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since then, he has acted in a wide range of movies, ranging from the critically-acclaimed thriller, Zodiac (2007), the drama Brothers (2009), playing opposite Tobey Maguire as the title siblings, in the action adventure film, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), sporting a bulked-up physique, and the box office hit, Love & Other Drugs (2010), in which he teamed up with Anne Hathaway, once again, and for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In the 2010s, Gyllenhaal starred in several major films for which he received significant critical acclaim: science fiction thriller Source Code (2011), police drama End of Watch (2012), mystery Prisoners (2013), dark media satire Nightcrawler (2014), the boxing drama Southpaw (2015), and the dramedy Demolition (2015). For Nightcrawler, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Gyllenhaal is the godfather of Matilda Ledger (aka Matilda Rose Ledger), daughter of the late actor Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams. Gyllenhaal's most significant personal relationships have been with actresses Kirsten Dunst and Reese Witherspoon. He is friends with Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, having known him since kindergarten. He is good friends with his sister's husband and Jarhead (2005) co-star, actor Peter Sarsgaard.

Jake Hafner

Jake Hafner is known for his work on Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage (2021).

Jake Hames

Midwest native, Jake Hames first stepped into acting at the University of Wisconsin, Stout. There he appeared in several plays including Woody Allen's "God" as Diabetes and Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" as Charles Guiteau. Jake then transferred schools to the University of Minnesota, Duluth in order to focus strictly on acting. His first play at UMD was an original piece that chronicled the events of the Holocaust called "Dear Finder" which was selected at the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF) in 1999. Soon after, Jake moved to Chicago, where he continues to enjoy acting in original material including Thomas Doyle Piwnicki and Joe Elseys Zombie comedy, "Stay Dead" as Russell and Dan Pico's World War II Drama, "Two Days in Limbo" as Al. Jake will nest be seen in Boathouse Studios and Compost Productions feature length horror film, "Stump the Band".

Jake Harrington

Jake Harrington is known for Ask Me to Dance (2022) and The Mystery of Her (2022).

Jake Harris

Jake Harris is known for Deadliest Catch (2005), Deadliest Catch: Best of Season 5 (2010) and Deadliest Catch: Bloodline (2020).

Jake Harrison

Jake Hart

Jake Hart is known for Grand Theft Auto V (2013), The Blacklist (2013) and The Deuce (2017).

Jake Hayes

Jake Hayes in a young actor from England. He started acting aged 10 at a local performing arts school. Jake 's first film credit was Trashbag where he played a young boy searching for a family. Jake enjoys playing the piano and drums, gaming, scootering and spending time with his family.

Jake Hays

Born and raised in southern California, Jake Hays is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, actor, VFX artist, producer, editor and big fan of all things creepy and spooky. He discovered a love for music at age thirteen with drums, eventually moving onto guitar, keyboards, singing and producing. Jake has written songs with Matt Sorum (Guns N'Roses, Velvet Revolver), Grammy Award winner Holly Knight (Aerosmith, Pat Benatar) and Cherie Currie (The Runaways) to name a few. Hays signed with BMG/Vagrant Records in 2015 with his project Maudlin Strangers, and toured the US and Canada multiple times over opening for acts like Bad Suns and Cold War Kids. Hays has also produced acts like Hunny (for their Windows I - EP) and Royaljag (for their debut Chameleon EP). In November 2018, while Hays was away in Texas filming the indie 80s-inspired action movie Night Run, he lost his home and recording studio in the Woolsey Fire. In the following months, he rebuilt a small recording setup and rented a studio lockout in Burbank, CA which would become his musical hideout in this period of readjustment. There, he began writing and recording as many songs as possible, including the debut single "Sleep Talk", which was the first song ever released under his birth name. Jake wrote and produced over 20 songs during that time, including the four that were chosen to be on his debut "Room 13" EP. His latest single "Sober" is available on all streaming platforms. You can contact him via email, Instagram DMs, or saying his name three times in any haunted mirror.

Jake Hayward

Jake Hayward is an actor, known for Dark River (2017) and Ackley Bridge (2017).