Jake Gyllenhaal on screen and stage

Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor who has appeared in over 35 motion pictures (including some yet to be released), three television programs, one commercial, and four music videos. He made his film debut in 1991 with a minor role in the comedy-drama City Slickers.^[1] In 1993, he appeared in A Dangerous Woman, a motion picture adaptation directed by Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal and co-written by his mother Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal that was based on the novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris. In the following year, he portrayed Robin Williams' son in an episode of the police procedural television series Homicide: Life on the Street; the episode was directed by his father.^[2] In 1999, Gyllenhaal starred in the Joe Johnston-directed drama October Sky; the film was received warmly by critics,^[2] and Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the NASA engineer Homer Hickam was praised.^[3]

Gyllenhaal at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival

In 2001, he appeared in the comedy film Bubble Boy, which was a critical failure and a box-office bomb but has since gone on to attain status as a "cult comedy".^[3][4] Later that same year, he starred in the Richard Kelly-directed drama Donnie Darko alongside his sister Maggie, and Drew Barrymore.^[5] His portrayal of the Donnie Darko character, a "sullen" and "schizophrenic" teenager, made him a cult hero.^[3] Although the film was critically acclaimed, it failed commercially. Gyllenhaal starred in the 2004 disaster film The Day After Tomorrow,^[3] which, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics,^[6] was a commercial success at the box office.^[7] In 2005, he co-starred as Jack Twist opposite Heath Ledger in the romance drama Brokeback Mountain. The actors portrayed two men that fall in love during a sheepherding expedition. The roles earned both Gyllenhaal and Ledger critical acclaim and Academy Award nominations.^[8] That same year, he starred in the drama films Jarhead and Proof.^[9]

Gyllenhaal played the true crime author Robert Graysmith in the 2007 mystery film Zodiac. Directed by David Fincher, the film explores the story about the serial killer Zodiac who stalked the Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s.^[8] In 2010, he portrayed Prince Dastan in the fantasy adventure Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time;^[8] the film received mixed reviews from critics^[10] and was a box office success.^[11] That same year, Gyllenhaal starred alongside Anne Hathaway in the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs.^[8] He portrayed Colter Stevens, a U.S. Army Aviation captain, in the 2011 sci-fi time-travel thriller Source Code.^[12] In 2013, Gyllenhaal starred in the drama Prisoners together with Hugh Jackman;^[13] the film received both critical and commercial success.^[14][15] The following year, he starred in dual roles in Enemy.^[16] He then produced and starred in Nightcrawler (2014) and was nominated for the BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award and Critics' Choice Movie Award, with his miss in the Best Actor Oscar category considered by many to be a snub.^{[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]} In 2019, Gyllenhaal played Marvel Comics character Mysterio in Spider-Man: Far From Home, set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Film

Year	Title	Credited as		Role	Notes	Ref.
		Actor	Producer
1991	City Slickers	Yes	No	Daniel Robbins		[25][26]
1993	A Dangerous Woman	Yes	No	Edward		[27]
	Josh and S.A.M.	Yes	No	Leon Coleman		[28]
1998	Homegrown	Yes	No	Jake / Blue Kahan		[29][30]
1999	October Sky	Yes	No	Homer Hickam		[29][31]
2001	Donnie Darko	Yes	No	Donnie Darko		[5][32]
	Bubble Boy	Yes	No	Jimmy Livingston		[3][9][33][34]
	Lovely and Amazing	Yes	No	Jordan		[33][35][36]
2002	The Good Girl	Yes	No	Thomas "Holden" Worther		[37][38]
	Highway	Yes	No	Pilot Kelson		[9]
	Moonlight Mile	Yes	No	Joe Nast		[39][40]
2004	The Day After Tomorrow	Yes	No	Sam Hall		[7][41]
	Jiminy Glick in Lalawood	Yes	No	Himself	Cameo	[42]
2005	The Man Who Walked Between the Towers	Yes	No	Narrator	Voice; Documentary	[43]
	Brokeback Mountain	Yes	No	Jack Twist		[44][45]
	Proof	Yes	No	Harold "Hal" Dobbs		[46][47]
	Jarhead	Yes	No	Anthony "Swoff" Swofford		[48][49]
2007	Zodiac	Yes	No	Robert Graysmith		[50][51]
	Rendition	Yes	No	Douglas Freeman		[52][53][54]
2009	Brothers	Yes	No	Tommy Cahill		[55][56]
2010	Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Yes	No	Dastan		[11][57]
	Love & Other Drugs	Yes	No	Jamie Randall		[58][59]
2011	Source Code	Yes	No	Colter Stevens		[12][60]
2012	End of Watch	Yes	Executive	Brian Taylor		[61][62]
2013	Prisoners	Yes	No	Detective Loki		[13][15]
	Enemy	Yes	No	Adam Bell / Anthony Clair		[16]
2014	Nightcrawler	Yes	Yes	Louis "Lou" Bloom		[63][64]
2015	Accidental Love	Yes	No	Howard Birdwell		[65]
	Southpaw	Yes	No	Billy Hope		[66]
	Everest	Yes	No	Scott Fischer		[67][68]
	Demolition	Yes	No	Davis Mitchell		[69][70]
2016	Nocturnal Animals	Yes	No	Edward Sheffield / Tony Hastings		[71][72]
2017	Life	Yes	No	Dr. David Jordan		[73]
	Okja	Yes	No	Dr. Johnny Wilcox		[74]
	Stronger	Yes	Yes	Jeff Bauman		[75]
2018	Wildlife	Yes	Yes	Jerry Brinson		[76]
	The Sisters Brothers	Yes	No	John Morris		[77]
2019	Velvet Buzzsaw	Yes	No	Morf Vandewalt		[78]
	Spider-Man: Far From Home	Yes	No	Quentin Beck / Mysterio		[79]
2021	Spirit Untamed	Yes	No	James "Jim" Prescott	Voice	[80]
	The Guilty	Yes	Yes	Joe Baylor		[81]
	Spider-Man: No Way Home	Yes	No	Quentin Beck / Mysterio	Archival footage from Spider-Man: Far From Home	[82]
2022	Ambulance	Yes	No	Danny Sharp		[83]
	Strange World	Yes	No	Searcher Clade	Voice	[84]
2023	Guy Ritchie's The Covenant	Yes	No	Sergeant John Kinley		[85]
2024	Road House	Yes	No	Elwood Dalton		[86]
2026	The Bride! †	Yes	No		Filming	[87]
TBA	In the Grey †	Yes	No		Post-production	[88]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

As producer only

Year	Title	Credited as	Notes	Ref.
		2017			Hondros	Executive	Documentary	[89]
2020	Relic	Yes		[90]
	The Devil All the Time	Yes		[91]
	Joe Bell	Executive		[92]
2021	Breaking News in Yuba County	Yes		[93]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1994	Homicide: Life on the Street	Matthew "Matt" Ellison	Episode: "Bop Gun"	[94]
2007–2024	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	3 episodes	[95][96]
2009	Sesame Street	Himself	Episode: "The Rainbow Show"
2011	Man vs. Wild	Himself	Episode: "Man vs. Wild with Jake Gyllenhaal"	[97]
2016	Inside Amy Schumer	Himself	Episode: "Fame"	[98]
2019	John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch	Mr. Music	Children's special	[99]
2020	Saturday Night Live	Guy Who Travels in Pyjamas	Episode: "John Mulaney/David Byrne"	[96]
2024	Presumed Innocent	Rusty Sabich	8 episodes; also executive producer	[100]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Venue	Notes	Ref.
2002	This Is Our Youth	Warren Straub	Garrick Theatre	West End	[101]
2012	If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet	Terry	Laura Pels Theater	Off-Broadway	[102]
2014–2015	Constellations	Roland	Samuel J. Friedman Theatre	Broadway	[103]
2015	Little Shop of Horrors	Seymour Krelborn	New York City Center	Off-Broadway	[104]
2016	Sunday in the Park with George	Georges Seurat / George			[105]
2017			Hudson Theatre	Broadway
2019	Sea Wall/A Life	Abe	The Public Theater	Off-Broadway	[106]
			Hudson Theatre	Broadway
2023	Gutenberg! The Musical!	The Producer (one night only)	James Earl Jones Theatre		[107]
2025	Othello	Iago	Ethel Barrymore Theatre		[108]

Music videos

Year	Song	Artist(s)	Role	Ref.
2009	"Blame It"	Jamie Foxx (feat. T-Pain)	Clubber	[109]
2010	"Giving Up the Gun"	Vampire Weekend	Tennis player	[110][111]
2012	"Time to Dance"	The Shoes	Jason Voorhees	[112][113]
2014	"Part II (On the Run)"	Jay-Z (feat. Beyoncé)	Himself	[114]

See also

• Film portal

• List of awards and nominations received by Jake Gyllenhaal