She spent four months as a student at The Mountain School, a semester school for high school juniors in Vermont. Gyllenhaal grew up in Los Angeles and studied at the Harvard–Westlake prep school. Her parents married in 1977, and filed for divorce in October 2008. Gyllenhaal has stated that she 'grew up mostly Jewish, culturally', and she identifies as Jewish, though she did not attend Hebrew school. Her mother's first husband was Eric Foner, a noted historian and history professor at Columbia University. Her mother was born in New York City (growing up in Brooklyn), and is Jewish, from Ashkenazi Jewish families that emigrated from Russia and Poland. Her last native Swedish ancestor was her great-great-grandfather Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal, a descendant of Leonard Gyllenhaal, a leading Swedenborgian who supported the printing and spreading of Swedenborg's writings. Her father, a member of the noble Gyllenhaal family, is of Swedish and English ancestry, and was raised in the Swedenborgian religion. Her father is a film director and poet, and her mother is a screenwriter and director. She has a younger brother, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and a half-brother, Luke, from their father's second marriage. Margalit ( מרגלית) is a Hebrew word meaning 'pearl' some news stories have spelled it 'Margolit'. The first name on Maggie's birth certificate is 'Margalit', which she did not discover until 2013, when adopting her husband's surname. Gyllenhaal was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Naomi Achs and Stephen Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children together. She also produced and starred in the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–19). For her performance, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman. Gyllenhaal has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. 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. 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). She subsequently starred in the comedies and dramas Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), and Won't Back Down (2012). 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).įor her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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. She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She 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). Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Margalit Ruth ' Maggie' Gyllenhaal ( / ˈ dʒ ɪ l ə n h ɔː l/ JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker.

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