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• {{marriage|Naomi Foner|1977|2009|end=divorced{edih}
• {{marriage|Kathleen Man|2011}}

}}Maggie Gyllenhaal>Maggie and JakeGyllenhaal family>Gyllenhaalweblink}}|yearsactive = 1979–present}}Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɪ|l|ə|n|h|ɔː|l}} {{respell|JIL|ən|hawl}}, {{IPA|sv|ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl|lang}}; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Personal life

Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. He is of Swedish and English descent; through his father, he is a member of the Gyllenhaal family, and a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, "Gyllenhaal".The Gyllenhaal Family Tree ProjectStated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS, April 22, 2012.He grew up in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in a close-knit Swedenborgian family. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972, with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Ogden.He was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years, from 1977 until their divorce was finalized in 2009.WEB,weblink Maggie and Jake Now Children of Divorce, TMZ.com, October 16, 2008, July 30, 2017, From that marriage, he and Naomi are the parents of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal. His brother, Anders Gyllenhaal,WEB,weblink The Pulitzer Prizes, Pulitzer.org, May 6, 2009, October 18, 2010,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100813104435weblink">weblink August 13, 2010, dead, mdy-all, is executive editor of the Miami Herald.In July 2011, he married Kathleen Man, a filmmaker and professor who was a co-producer on Gyllenhaal's 2012 film Grassroots. Their son Luke was born in 2014.WEB,weblink Kathleen Gyllenhaal: Health meets Hollywood Q&A {{!, American Council on Science and Health|website=www.acsh.org|author=Jamie Wells|date=October 25, 2016|access-date=February 26, 2017}}WEB,weblink Pregnant? Stressed? Science Says Talk to Your Baby, Gyllenhaal, Kathleen Man, August 2, 2016, The Huffington Post, July 30, 2017,

Career

Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award. In 1990, Gyllenhaal directed Family of Spies, which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. In 1992, he directed the feature film Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke. Since 1993, he has focused primarily on directing in television, including an episode of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He directed his son, Jake, then 14 years old, in an episode of NBC's (Homicide: Life on the Street) that aired in 1994.WEB, Episode Guide,weblink IMDb, Gyllenhaal directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives, Rectify, and Blue Bloods. In 2011, Gyllenhaal directed Girl Fight which starred Anne Heche and earned Gyllenhaal a DGA Nomination for outstanding directorial achievement in movies for television.PRESS RELEASE,weblink 64th Annual DGA Awards Television Nominees Announced – 64th Annual DGA Awards Television Nominees Announced, Directors Guild of America, July 30, 2017, He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood,WEB,weblink Claptrap, AuthorsBookshop.com, July 30, 2017, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20081201111659weblink">weblink December 1, 2008, mdy-all, was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York–based literary small press, Cantarabooks.WEB,weblink A Literary Press, Cantarabooks, July 30, 2017, In 2013, Gyllenhaal directed a backdoor pilot originally titled Sworn to Silence that aired as the Lifetime TV movie An Amish Murder. It stars Neve Campbell as a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community she was shunned from years ago.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20111222204448weblink">weblink dead, December 22, 2011, Lifetime Greenlights Movie-Backdoor Pilot 'Sworn To Silence' Starring Neve Campbell – Ratings, TVbytheNumbers, December 7, 2011, July 30, 2017, Gyllenhaal is also in post-production on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent.WEB,weblink An Exquisite Continent, Exquisitecontinent.com, June 27, 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130527224126weblink">weblink May 27, 2013, dead, mdy-all, In 2019, Gyllenhaal was on the "Social Impact Advisory Board" of the San Diego International Film Festival with Susan Sarandon and Cecelia Peck.WEB, San Diego International Film Festival. October 15—20 2019. The Power of Perspective. Come Watch With Us.,weblinkwp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Program-compressed.pdf, https:web.archive.org/web/20191028222652weblinkwp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Program-compressed.pdf, dead, 2019-10-28, 2019-10-28, 2019-10-28, WEB, https:www.broadwayworld.com/san-diego/article/Nathan-Fletcher-Joins-San-Diego-International-Film-Festival-Advisory-Board-20191015, Nathan Fletcher Joins San Diego International Film Festival Advisory Board, Broadway World, en, 2019-10-28,

Selected filmography{| class"wikitable"

! Year ! Title ! Notes| 1979| Exit 10 || 1985| Certain Fury | 1990| A Killing in a Small Town | TV film;Nominated - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special| Family of Spies | TV| 1991| Paris Trout || 1992Waterland (film)>Waterland || 1993A Dangerous Woman (1993 film)>A Dangerous Woman || 1995| Losing Isaiah || 1998Homegrown (film)>Homegrown || 1999| Resurrection | TV| 2000The $treet (TV series)>The $treet| | 2001| The Warden of Red Rock | TV| 2002Living with the Dead (film)>Living with the Dead | TV| 2006Time Bomb (2006 film)>Time Bomb | TV| 2007| Manchild | TV| 2010| The Mentalist | TV| 2011Girl Fight (film)>Girl Fight | TV 2012| NYC 22 | TVGrassroots (film)>Grassroots || 2013| An Amish Murder | TV| 2014| Rectify | TV 2016So B. It (film)>So B. It | Billions (TV series)>Billions | TV| 2023| UnCharitable

References

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External links

• {{Official websiteweblink}}
• {{IMDb name|350455}}
• The Gyllenhaal name
• Genealogy of the Gyllenhaal family

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