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Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

Birthday: 1955-02-19 | Place of Birth: Athens, Georgia, USA

Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
American Rust

as    Det. Del Harris

2021
Hemingway

as    Ernest Hemingway (voice)

2020
The Comey Rule

as    James Comey

2020
Adam

as    Mickey

2020
Washington

as    Self - Narrator

2018
The Russian Five

as    Himself

2018
The Looming Tower

as    John O'Neill

2017
Godless

as    Frank Griffin

2017
2016
Allegiant

as    David

2015
Steve Jobs

as    John Sculley

2015
Of Miracles and Men

as    Self - Narrator

2015
The Martian

as    Teddy Sanders

2014
Dumb and Dumber To

as    Harry Dunne

2012
Looper

as    Abe

2012
The Newsroom

as    Will McAvoy

2010
Howl

as    Professor David Kirk

2009
The Answer Man

as    Arlen Faber

2009
State of Play

as    George Fergus

2009
Away We Go

as    Jerry Farlander

2009
Paper Man

as    Richard Dunn

2008
Traitor

as    Carter

2008
Sweet Nothing in My Ear

as    Dan Miller

2008
A Plumm Summer

as    Narrator

2008
Space Chimps

as    Zartog (voice)

2007
Mama's Boy

as    Mert Rosenbloom

2006
Infamous

as    Alvin Dewey

2006
RV

as    Travis Gornicke