Jeff Daniels

Known for ActingBorn 1955-02-19 (age 71)Athens, Georgia, USA

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).Read more

Movies & web series

RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The Newsroom

Impractical Jokers

Bye Bye Barry

Shrinking

Godless

The Morning Show

The Martian

Hemingway

A Rumor of War

Still Dumb After All These Years

MTV Video Music Awards

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley

Frasier

The American Buffalo

Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party

The Russian Five

The Looming Tower

James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend

Breakfast with the Arts

Family Guy

Washington

"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'

Of Miracles and Men

The Graham Norton Show

The Hours

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Pleasantville

Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Trying Times

American Rust

The Comey Rule

Good Night, and Good Luck.

The Brink of War

Speed

9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge

The Emperor's Newest Clothes

The Saint of Second Chances

Hunting Hitler

The Colbert Report

Looper

The Five People You Meet In Heaven

The Squid and the Whale

Gettysburg