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Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels

Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards).

On screen

  • The American Revolution
  • A Man in Full
  • The American Buffalo
  • Shrinking
  • American Rust
  • Hemingway
  • Washington
  • The Comey Rule
  • The Morning Show
  • The Looming Tower
  • Godless
  • Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
  • ARES: live
  • The Newsroom
  • Impractical Jokers
  • Family Guy
  • Frasier
  • HBO First Look
  • MTV Video Music Awards
  • American Playhouse
  • A Rumor of War
  • Hawaii Five-O
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

Behind the camera

  • Hunting Hitler

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