Birth Place: Chelsea, MI, USA
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Jeff Daniels is an American actor, musician, and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage productions, and television, for which he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards and received several Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Tony Award nominations. He made his film debut in Ragtime (1981), and amassed such additional credits as Terms of Endearment (1983), Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002), Gods and Generals (2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), The Lookout (2007), Looper (2012), Steve Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).
From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom, for which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He won a second Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for his supporting performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and an additional nomination that year for his leading performance as John P. O'Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018). Daniels has also received a number of award nominations for his work on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in the plays God of Carnage, Blackbird and To Kill a Mockingbird. He is the founder and current executive director of the Chelsea, Michigan–based Purple Rose Theatre Company.
[1981]Ragtime P.C. O Donnell
[1983]Terms of Endearment Flap Horton
[1985]Marie Eddie Sisk
[1985]The Purple Rose of Cairo Tom Baxter, Gil Shepherd
[1986]Heartburn Richard
[1986]Something Wild Charles Driggs
[1987]Radio Days Biff Baxter
[1988]Checking Out Ray Macklin
[1988]The House on Carroll Street Cochran
[1988]Sweet Hearts Dance Sam Manners
[1990]Love Hurts Paul Weaver
[1990]Arachnophobia Ross Jennings
[1990]Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael Denton Webb
[1991]Grand Tour: Disaster in Time Ben Wilson
[1991]The Butcher's Wife Dr. Alex Tremor
[1992]Rain Without Thunder Jonathan Garson
[1992]There Goes the Neighborhood Willis Embry
[1993]Gettysburg Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
[1994]Speed Harry
[1994]Dumb and Dumber Harry
[1996]Fly Away Home Thom Alden
[1996]101 Dalmatians Roger
[1996]2 Days in the Valley Alvin Strayer
[1997]Trial and Error Charles Tuttle
[1998]Pleasantville Mr. Johnson
[1999]All the Rage Warren Harding
[1999]My Favorite Martian Tim O Hara
[2000]Chasing Sleep Ed Saxon
[2001]Escanaba in da Moonlight Rueben Soady
[2002]Super Sucker Fred Barlow
[2002]The Hours Louis Waters
[2002]Blood Work Jasper Buddy Noone
[2003]Gods and Generals Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
[2003]I Witness James Rhodes
[2004]Imaginary Heroes Ben Travis
[2005]Good Night, and Good Luck. Sig Mickelson
[2005]The Squid and the Whale Bernard Berkman
[2005]Because of Winn-Dixie Preacher
[2006]RV Travis Gornicke
[2006]Infamous Alvin Dewey
[2007]The Lookout Lewis
[2007]Mama's Boy Mert Rosenbloom
[2007]A Plumm Summer Narrator
[2008]Space Chimps Zartog
[2008]Traitor Carter
[2009]Paper Man Richard Dunn
[2009]Away We Go Jerry
[2009]State of Play George Fergus
[2009]The Answer Man Arlen Faber
[2010]Howl David Kirk
[2012]Looper Abe
[2014]Dumb and Dumber To Harry
[2015]Steve Jobs John Sculley
[2015]The Martian Teddy Sanders
[2016]Allegiant David
[2018]The Catcher Was a Spy Bill Donovan
[2019]Guest Artist Joseph Harris
[2020]Adam Mickey
The Newsroom Will McAvoy
Jeff Daniels, To Kill a Mockingbird
Jeff Daniels, To Kill a Mockingbird
Jeff Daniels, Blackbird
Jeff Daniels, Blackbird
Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage
Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage
Jeff Daniels, Blackbird
Jeff Daniels, Johnny Got His Gun
Jeff Daniels, 5th of July
Jeff Daniels has appeared on Broadway in 7 shows.
Jeff Daniels has not appeared in the West End
Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for To Kill a Mockingbird , Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for To Kill a Mockingbird , Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Blackbird , Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Blackbird , Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for God of Carnage , Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for God of Carnage , Outstanding Lead Actor (The Lortels) for Blackbird Outstanding Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Johnny Got His Gun and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for 5th of July .
Jeff Daniels has written 1 shows including Time (Composer).
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