Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- 2024 · Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story as Self
- 2024 · A Man in Full as Charlie Croker
- 2023 · Bye Bye Barry as Self
- 2023 · The American Buffalo as (voice)
- 2021 · 9/11: Inside the President's War Room as Narrator
- 2021 · Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2020 · Adam as Mickey
- 2018 · The Catcher Was a Spy as Bill Donovan
- 2018 · The Russian Five as self
- 2015 · ARES: live as Teddy Sanders
- 2010 · Howl as Professor David Kirk
- 2009 · Paper Man as Richard Dunn
- 2009 · The Answer Man as Arlen Faber
- 2008 · Space Chimps as Zartog (voice)
- 2007 · The Lookout as Lewis
- 2006 · Infamous as Alvin Dewey
- 2006 · Still Dumb After All These Years as Self
- 2004 · The Five People You Meet In Heaven as Blue Man
- 2004 · Imaginary Heroes as Ben Travis
- 2004 · The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
- 2003 · I Witness as James Rhodes
- 2003 · Gods and Generals as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
- 2000 · The Crossing as Gen. George Washington
- 1999 · It's the Rage as Warren Harding
- 1997 · Trial and Error as Charles Tuttle
- 1993 · Rain Without Thunder as Jonathan Garson
- 1992 · Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story as Tom Noonan
- 1992 · Timescape as Ben Wilson
- 1989 · No Place Like Home as Mike Cooper
- 1988 · Checking Out as Ray Macklin
- 1988 · Sweet Hearts Dance as Sam Manners
- 1988 · The House on Carroll Street as Cochran
- 1987 · Trying Times as Jim
- 1981 · Ragtime as P.C. O'Donnell
- 1980 · A Rumor of War as Chaplain
- Future · Reykjavik as Ronald Reagan
- 2023 · The Saint of Second Chances as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · Shrinking as
- 2021 · American Rust as Det. Del Harris
- 2021 · Hemingway as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
- 2020 · The Comey Rule as James Comey
- 2020 · Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party as Himself
- 2020 · Washington as Self - Narrator
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Guest Artist as Joseph Harris
- 2018 · The Emperor's Newest Clothes as The Emperor
- 2018 · The Looming Tower as John O'Neill
- 2017 · Godless as Frank Griffin
- 2017 · Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
- 2017 · Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge as Narrator
- 2016 · Allegiant as David
- 2015 · Steve Jobs as John Sculley
- 2015 · The Martian as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · "That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To' as Self
- 2015 · Of Miracles and Men as Self - Narrator
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Dumb and Dumber To as Harry Dunne
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2014 · Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- 2013 · James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend as Self
- 2012 · Looper as Abe
- 2012 · The Newsroom as Will McAvoy
- 2011 · Impractical Jokers as Self
- 2009 · Away We Go as Jerry Farlander
- 2009 · State of Play as George Fergus
- 2008 · Traitor as Carter
- 2008 · A Plumm Summer as Narrator
- 2008 · Sweet Nothing in My Ear as Dan Miller
- 2007 · Mama's Boy as Mert Rosenbloom
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · Robin Williams: A Family Affair as Self
- 2006 ·