Stephen Gyllenhaal
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| Born | Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal October 4, 1949 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Occupation | Film Director, Poet |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Spouse | Naomi Foner (1977–2009; divorced) Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal (2011–present) |
| Children | Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal |
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| http://stephengyllenhaal.net | |
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (
/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet.
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[edit] Personal life
Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. The Gyllenhaal family is a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, "Gyllenhaal."[1] Stephen grew up in suburban Pennsylvania in a close-knit Swedenborgian family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972, with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Ogden.
He was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years until their divorce was finalized in 2009.[2] From that marriage, he is the father of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal. He is also the brother of Anders Gyllenhaal,[3] executive editor of the Miami Herald. In July 2011 he married Kathleen Man Gyllenhaal, a filmmaker and professor who has worked on the film Grassroots alongside Gyllenhaal.[4]
[edit] Career
Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award. In 1990 Gyllenhaal directed Family of Spies, which was nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. In addition, he directed an episode of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He has directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives and Blue Bloods. In 2011 Gyllenhaal directed Girl Fight which starred Anne Heche and earned Gyllenhaal a DGA Nomination for outstanding directorial achievement in movies for television.[5]
He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood,[6] was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York-based literary small press, Cantarabooks.[7]
He directed the TNT television pilot The Warden in 2000 based on Lynda La Plante's series The Governor. It is about a dynamic and ambitious woman named Helen Hewitt (Ally Sheedy) is brought in as the young warden of an all-male maximum security prison (à la Oz). She is brought in to clean up the mess, and the guys in the department (whose egos have been severely dented by her appointment as warden) give her a week to last in the job.
Currently, Gyllenhaal is directing a backdoor pilot for Lifetime titled Sworn to Silence. The pilot stars Neve Campbell as Kate Burkholder, a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community that she was shunned from years ago.[8] Gyllenhaal is also in post-production on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent.[9]
[edit] Filmography
- (1979) Exit 10
- (1985) Certain Fury
- (1990) A Killing in a Small Town (TV)
- (1990) Family of Spies
- (1991) Paris Trout
- (1992) Waterland
- (1993) A Dangerous Woman
- (1995) Losing Isaiah
- (1998) Homegrown
- (1999) Resurrection
- (2001) The Warden of Red Rock
- (2002) Living with the Dead
- (2006) Time Bomb (TV)
- (2007) Manchild
- (2011) Girl Fight
- (2011) Exquisite Continent
- (2011) Grassroots
[edit] References
- ^ The Gyllenhaal Family Tree Project
- ^ "Maggie and Jake Now Children of Divorce". TMZ.com. 2008-10-16. http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/16/jake-and-maggie-now-children-of-divorce/. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer.org. 2009-05-06. http://www.pulitzer.org/gyllenhaal+chair. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ^ "Beach wedding for Gyllenhaals". The Daily Mail. 25 July 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2018525/Beach-wedding-Gyllenhaals-Jake-Maggie-attend-fathers-beach-ceremony-Hawaii.html. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ^ http://www.dga.org/News/PressReleases/2012/0110-DGA-Awards-Announcement-TV-Nominations.aspx
- ^ "Claptrap". AuthorsBookshop.com. http://www.authorsbookshop.com/gyllenhaalclaptrap/. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ^ "A Literary Press". Cantarabooks. http://www.cantarabooks.com. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ^ http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/07/lifetime-greenlights-movie-backdoor-pilot-sworn-to-silence-starring-neve-campbell/113020/
- ^ http://exquisitecontinent.com/about.html
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