Maggie Gyllenhaal
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- direction of “The Lost Daughter”
- In Olivia Colman: Films: The Lobster, The Favourite, and The Lost Daughter
…of a divorced professor in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter (2021), an adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novel. In 2022 Colman starred in the comedy Joyride and in Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light, about employees at a struggling movie theater in the 1980s. She also lent her voice to several animated…
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- relation to Jake Gyllenhaal
- In Jake Gyllenhaal: Early life and career
His sister, Maggie Gyllenhaal, became a noted actress and director. Their parents’ work afforded the siblings proximity to the film industry, and Jake Gyllenhaal began working at a young age. In 1991 he made his feature film debut, appearing as the son of Billy Crystal’s character in…
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role in
- “Dark Knight, The”
- In The Dark Knight: Premise and summary
…district attorney Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal), with whom both Dent and Batman are in love. Dawes manages to stall the Joker until Batman arrives. A fight breaks out, and the Joker pushes Dawes out of a window. Batman saves her, but the Joker escapes.
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- “Secretary”
- In James Spader
In 2002 he starred with Maggie Gyllenhaal in Secretary, a film based on Mary Gaitskill’s short story from 1988 about a sadomasochistic relationship. The following year he was cast as lawyer Alan Shore in season eight of the legal drama The Practice; he reprised that role in the spin-off Boston…
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