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Jake Gyllenhaal Born in Los Angeles in 1980, Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter, Naomi Foner Achs. Film making and acting certainly run in the Gyllenhaal family and his sister Maggie is also a successful actress in her own right.
Having studied at the exclusive Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, Gyllenhaal went on to read Eastern Religion at Columbia University for two years, before his early dalliances with acting took over.He landed his debut film role when he was just 11-years-old, playing Billy Crystal’s son in ‘City Slickers’. Over the next few years, he cropped up in ‘A Dangerous Woman’, ‘Josh and S.A.M’ and ‘Homegrown’. However, he was far from becoming a child star thanks to his parent’s insistence that he complete his education before turning to full time acting.
Acting on career advice passed on by Dustin Hoffman while filming ‘Moonlight Mile’, he next took a part in the London West End production of ‘This Is Our Youth’. Having transferred from Broadway, the play, and Gyllenhaal in particular, wooed the critics. In 2002, he walked away with the London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Outstanding Newcomer.In 2011, the actor played the main role in 'Source Code' - an action thriller centred on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and has to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train before it explodes.
The actor is currently sporting a bald head in order to film his new police drama 'End of Watch', which is set for release in 2012.