Jake Gyllenhaal

Born in the cinematographic city of Los Angeles, Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal is the son of Stephen Gyllenhaal , director of films such as The Water Country , with Jeremy Irons , and Naomi Foner , screenwriter of A Place in Nowhere , among others. His family film vocation extended to his eldest daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal ( Adaptation , Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ). His christening godmother is actress Jamie Lee Curtis . A fan of reading since his earliest childhood, Jake currently has two dogs, Atticus and Boo Radley, named after characters from To Kill a Mockingbird .. As a child, he was expelled from several schools for sitting in the last rows to read books like The Catcher in the Rye , a rather precocious attitude considering that he was twelve years old. “Sallinger’s stories help any boy to face the transition from adolescence to adulthood,” he has said of the writer, who has him completely obsessed. While still a child, he made his film debut, playing a small role, as Billy Crystal ‘s son , in Town Cowboys . At 13, he was in A Dangerous Woman , a drama with Debra Winger ., which brought together his entire family, since the script belonged to his mother, his sister Maggie also appeared, and it was directed by his father, who once again gave him a role in Cosecha own .

In his youth he was taught to drive by Paul Newman , a family friend, formed a rock group, worked as a lifeguard, and enrolled for two years at Columbia University, before dropping out. But it soon became clear to him that cinema was his thing, especially after Joe Johnston offered him his first leading role, Homer Hickam, a real character, son of a miner obsessed with space travel, in October Sky . The surreal Donnie Darko had the greatest impact , a cult film, highly influenced by David Lynch , which was the feature debut of the promising Richard Kelly ., in which, paradoxically, Maggie Gyllenhaal played her sister. Her character was a troubled boy who was incited by a giant rabbit to commit violent acts. The young actor garnered rave reviews, as did his work in The Good Girl , where he played Tom, a depressed supermarket clerk as passionate about writer JD Sallinger as the actor himself, who called himself Holden, as the lead in the film. cited The Catcher in the Rye . He made his stage debut in the play This Is Our Youth , which was staged in London’s West End, but was turned down for the lead role in Moulin Rouge .  , a thorn that has stuck. “I loved the role. I was very close. I spent months testing. Baz Luhrmann was hesitating between Ewan McGregor and Heath Ledger and myself doing it. I was the youngest, and I prefer to think that he discarded me because of my age, rather than because of my lack of talent, ”he declared about this episode. Talent is not lacking, as he demonstrated with his work in The Engagement , where he was a boy who loses his girlfriend shortly before his wedding. For the general public, he became known with El día de mañana , a colorful catastrophic blockbuster that warned of the risks of global warming, where he was the son of a climatologist, trapped in New York, devastated by a flood.

Nominated for an Oscar for playing a gay cowboy under the command of Ang Lee in Brokeback Mountain , he was so convincing that he has been asked about his possible homosexuality in interviews ever since. But he is quick to deny it. “It’s a little frustrating that this rumor has spread, although on the other hand it is flattering that people believe my characters.” In any case, he hasn’t settled down yet, though he did have a promising relationship with actress Kirsten Dunst , after being introduced to her by her sister, who worked with her on Mona Lisa Smile . 2005 was a very important year in the career of Jake Gyllenhaal, whom we could see in Ang Lee’s film, inProof (The Hidden Truth) and in Jarhead . Currently, he has just finished filming Zodiac , David Fincher ‘s new thriller , which reconstructs the true story of a serial killer who terrorized San Francisco.