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Birth Name: Jacob Benjamin “Jake” Gyllenhaal

Birth Date: December 19, 1980

Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation: Actor

An American actor and the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. Jake starred in the critically praised films Proof, Jarhead, and Brokeback Mountain. However, his first hit movie blockbuster was “The Day after Tommorrow” where he portrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event way back 2004.

Jake Gyllenhaal has won several awards:

2002
Young Hollywood Awards
Breakthrough Performance
Chlotrudis Awards
Best Actor

2005
National Board of Review
Best Supporting Actor (Brokeback Mountain)
NBR Award
Best Supporting Actor (Brokeback Mountain)
MTV Movie Awards
Best Performance
MTV Movie Awards
Best Kiss

2006
BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actor
Palm Springs International Film Festival Achievement-Actor Award

2008
National Arts Awards
Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence

Upcoming movies:

2009
Brothers
Nailed

2010
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
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