Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal (Iago). An Academy Award and Tony Award nominee, Gyllenhaal is one of the finest actors of his generation. Whether blockbusters, independent films, musicals or plays for the Broadway stage, Gyllenhaal brings an unparalleled passion for his craft. His work as a producer is equally noteworthy and his production company Nine Stories has established itself as a force – sourcing material, developing it from the ground up, collaborating with bold storytellers, and shepherding the projects through release.

Gyllenhaal makes his series debut with Presumed Innocent for AppleTV+, which he stars in and executive produced alongside David E. Kelley & J.J. Abrams. The show is the #1 most viewed drama of all time on Apple TV+ and was recently renewed for a second season surrounding an entirely new case, with Gyllenhaal executive producing under his Nine Stories banner. Recently, Gyllenhaal starred in Doug Liman’s reimagination of the 1989 film, Road House, which premiered on Prime Video on March 21 and attracted a record-breaking over 50 million worldwide viewers on Prime Video over its first two weekends, becoming Amazon MGM Studios’ most-watched debut ever worldwide. Following the film’s success, it was announced that Gyllenhaal will reprise the role of ‘Elwood Dalton’ in in a Road House sequel. In January 2025, we’ll see Gyllenhaal on screen in Guy Ritchie’s latest film for Lionsgate, In The Grey, and back on stage in a new Broadway production of Othello alongside Denzel Washington. The Shakespeare revival will be directed by Kenny Leon and is set to open in Spring 2025.

Working with some of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers across independent and studio fare, Gyllenhaal has starred in Ang Lee’s classic Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award nomination and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor; Bong Joon Ho’s Okja; Jean Marc Vallée’s Demolition; Michael Bay’s acclaimed action thriller Ambulance; Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama Southpaw and more recently The Guilty, which Gyllenhaal also produced. Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest; Dennis Villeneuve’s highly acclaimed films Prisoners and Enemy; David Ayer’s End of Watch; Richard Kelly’s cult hit Donnie Darko; Duncan Jones’ Source Code; David Fincher’s Zodiac; Sam Mendes’ Jarhead; Joe Johnston’s October Sky; Ed Zwick’s Love and Other Drugs, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination; Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, for which he earned a BAFTA nomination; and Velvet Buzzsaw, for which he re-teamed with Nightcrawler writer/director Dan Gilroy. For his role in Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal received BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics’ Choice, and Independent Spirit Award nominations. He was also recognized with Best Actor citations from numerous critics’ groups. Notably, Gyllenhaal also won an Independent Spirit Award as a producer on the film for Best First Feature. In 2019, Gyllenhaal made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Mysterio in Jon Watt’s Spider-Man: Far From Home alongside Tom Holland, Zendaya, and Samuel L. Jackson. The film is Sony’s second highest-grossing movie at the worldwide box office to date.

For the stage, Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut with Nick Payne’s Constellations and his musical theatre debut in the Encores! production of Little Shop of Horrors. His New York stage debut in 2012 in If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet for the Roundabout Theatre Company earned him nominations from the Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards. In his first stage performance since 2002, Gyllenhaal starred in Kenneth Lonergan’s revival of This Is Our Youth on London’s West End, for which he won an Evening Standard Theater Award for Outstanding Newcomer. Gyllenhaal also starred on Broadway in the highly acclaimed revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Sunday in the Park with George opposite Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford. The musical re-opened the historic Hudson Theatre and played a sold-out 10-week engagement, becoming one of the most successful productions in Sondheim’s esteemed history. Most recently, Gyllenhaal starred in Sea Wall/A Life alongside Tom Sturridge in a tender pair of monologues that originally opened at The Public. The show went on to a hugely successful, limited run at the Hudson Theater on Broadway and for his performance, Gyllenhaal received a Tony nomination in the Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Play category.

Gyllenhaal founded Nine Stories in 2015, a fully capitalized production company dedicated to working with visionary storytellers in all fields. Recently it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios has closed a three-year first-look film deal with Nine Stories. Under the deal, Amazon MGM Studios will have a first look on narrative features Nine Stories intends to produce for both theatrical and streaming. Nine Stories produced Antoine Fuqua’s The Guilty, starring Gyllenhaal, which was Netflix’s #1 film for over three weeks. Previously, Nine Stories produced the highly acclaimed Wildlife, Paul Dano’s directorial debut starring Carey Mulligan; David Gordon Green’s feature film Stronger, starring Gyllenhaal as Boston Marathon bombing survivor ‘Jeff Bauman;’ Antonio Campos’ The Devil All The Time for Netflix; Reinaldo Marcus Green’s Joe Bell; Tate Taylor’s Breaking News in Yuba County; and executive produced Hondros, a documentary on war photographer Chris Hondros that won the coveted Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. For the stage, Nine Stories produced We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time by playwright David Cale. Through Nine Stories, Gyllenhaal served as a producer on Sea Wall/A Life and Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, which received a total of 12 Tony nominations; both productions received Tony nominations for Best Play in the same year.