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Margalit "Maggie" Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal.
Gyllenhaal began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Gyllenhaal received critical acclaim for her leading performances in the erotic romantic comedy drama Secretary (2002) and the drama Sherrybaby (2006), each of which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. After several commercially successful films in 2006, including World Trade Center, she received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008).
For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the comedies and dramas: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), and Won't Back Down (2012). Her other roles include a Secret Service agent in the action-thriller White House Down (2013), a musician in Frank (2014), and the title role in the drama The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). In 2021, Gyllenhaal made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, for which she won the Venice International Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Gyllenhaal has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman. For her performance, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–19). Gyllenhaal has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children together.
Filmography
all 86
Movies 59
TV Shows 27
self 25
Producer 2
Director 2
Narrator 2
The Bride! (2025)
The Lost Daughter (2021)
How To with John Wilson (2020)
Best Summer Ever (2020)
Joker: Put on a Happy Face (2020)
Homemade (2020)
The Ben Cobb Show (2020)
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Sylvia Plath: Inside the Bell Jar (2018)
The Deuce (2017)
The New Empress (2016)
Home (2016)
Beauty Mark (2016)
Chelsea (2016)
Starring Austin Pendleton (2016)
Truth and Power (2016)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter (2015)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
The Honourable Woman (2014)
Frank (2014)
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
River of Fundament (2014)
The Sturgeon Queens (2014)
Meet the Insiders of 'White House Down' (2013)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2013)
White House Down (2013)
Won't Back Down (2012)
BAM150 (2012)
Finding Your Roots (2012)
Honest Trailers (2012)
Hysteria (2011)
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
Crazy Heart (2009)
Live from Studio Five (2009)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009)
Away We Go (2009)
Heath Ledger: A Tribute (2009)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Gotham Tonight (2008)
Voyage to the Bunny Planet (2008)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
High Falls (2007)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Sherrybaby (2006)
World Trade Center (2006)
Monster House (2006)
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges (2006)
Paris Je T'aime (2006)
Trust the Man (2005)
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Happy Endings (2005)
The Dying Gaul (2005)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
The Misbehavers (2004)
Donnie Darko: Production Diary (2004)
Criminal (2004)
The Pornographer: A Love Story (2004)
Strip Search (2004)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Casa de los Babys (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
Adaptation. (2002)
Secretary (2002)
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
The Photographer (2000)
Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (1999)
Independent Lens (1999)
Resurrection (1999)
Homegrown (1998)
The Patron Saint of Liars (1998)
The View (1997)
The Daily Show (1996)
Shattered Mind (1996)
Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993)
A Dangerous Woman (1993)
Late Show with David Letterman (1993)
Waterland (1992)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
The Oscars (1953)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1977-11-16 (46 years old)
Birth NameMargalit Ruth Gyllenhaal
Birth PlaceManhattan, United States of America
ReligionChristianity
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SpousePeter Sarsgaardd
ChildrenGloria Sarsgaard, Ramona Sarsgaard
FatherStephen Gyllenhaal
MotherNaomi Foner Gyllenhaal
SiblingsJake Gyllenhaal
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsМэгги Джилленхол, 매기 질렌할, 玛吉·吉伦哈尔
AwardsGolden Globe Award
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