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Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal made her debut in her father's Stephen Gyllenhaal film Waterland (1992) and emerged as a full-blown star in Secretary (2002). Her sweet looks and conduct result in a subtle on-screen style that emerges from the character she plays, whether the part is large or small. A graduate of Columbia University, Gyllenhaal resides in New York City. She earned her BA in English, which gave her theater experience during college in addition to her literary point. In addition, she studied briefly at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Her stage experience led her to acting after graduation.
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Gyllenhaal's saucy new role -
20 August 2010
-Maggie Gyllenhaal is preparing to set Hollywood buzzing with a racy new role - she's signed on to star in a film about the invention of the vibrator.-
-The Secretary actress will play the daughter of a doctor in Victorian England, who created the sex toy to treat hysteria
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Gyllenhaal's Nanny McPhee accent is all White's -
19 August 2010
-Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal mastered her British accent in new movie Nanny Mcphee And The Big Bang by mimicking the voice of director Susanna White.-
-The Crazy Heart star is a native New Yorker and admits she drew inspiration for her character's voice from the filmmaker, c
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Thompson encouraged Gyllenhaal to take on Crazy Heart role -
8 January 2010
-Maggie Gyllenhaal almost turned down a role in new movie Crazy Heart for the sake of her young daughter - until a text message from Emma Thompson convinced her to stop feeling guilty about juggling work with motherhood.-
-The Dark Knight actress admits she has limited her
Maggie Gyllenhaal - what members say
review by from EALING
23 January 2004
review by from Truth Or Consequences, Scotland
Fifties era relationship angst and Women's lib, Julia Roberts style. And all the horrors that implies. 17 March 2004
review by BH101 from Cambridge
Masterpiece of its type 11 December 2006
Maggie Gyllenhaal - filmography
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Learning to Fly
(2012)
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis
Director: Daniel Barnz
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis play two determined mothers, one a teacher, who will stop at nothing to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children. ..read more »

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Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
(2010)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Susanna White, Mike Eley
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Nanny McPhee (Thompson) arrives to help a harried young mother (Gyllenhaal) who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.

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from 726 members
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Crazy Heart
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell
Director: Scott Cooper
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Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad cant help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who ..read more »

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Crazy Heart - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Scott Cooper
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A worn-down country singer and a burgeoning journalist form an unusual bond in this drama adapted from the novel by Thomas Cobb. His spirit broken by multiple failed marriages, too much time on the road, and too many nights with the bottle, Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) had started to feel like he was ..read more »

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Away We Go
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Jeff Daniels
Director: Sam Mendes
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Directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty) from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, this funny and heartfelt film follows the journey of an expectant couple (John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph), as they travel the U.S. in search of the perfect place to put down ..read more »

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The Dark Knight - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2008)
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Director Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, THE PRESTIGE) returns to Gotham City with this sequel to the critically-acclaimed fan favourite, BATMAN BEGINS. In THE DARK KNIGHT, Batman (Christian Bale - RESCUE DAWN, AMERICAN PSYCHO) squares off against a new, completely psychotic foe: the Joker (Heath ..read more »

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The Dark Knight
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly.

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World Trade Center - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Maria Bello, Nicolas Cage, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Oliver Stone
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The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it's easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on the ..read more »

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World Trade Center - HD
(2006)
Starring: Maria Bello, Nicolas Cage, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Oliver Stone
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The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it's easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on the ..read more »

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Sherrybaby
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Brad William Henke, Sam Bottoms
Director: Laurie Collyer
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Sherry Swanson returns home to New Jersey after serving a three year prison sentence. Eager to re-establish a relationship with her young daughter, Sherry soon discovers that coming back to the world she left behind is far more difficult than she had planned.

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World Trade Center
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Maria Bello, Nicolas Cage, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Oliver Stone
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The events of September 11 left an indelible mark on most Americans, and certainly on those in the New York City area. Yet as fresh as the images seem, it's easy to forget the actual grit, sacrifice, and uncertainty of that day. Director Oliver Stone captures the essence of 9/11 by focusing on the ..read more »

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Monster House
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Buscemi, Kevin James
Director: Gil Kenan
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MONSTER HOUSE focuses on an anthropomorphic mansion, a haunted house with human characteristics that actively frightens neighbourhood folks as it attempts to reign over its inhabitants. One day, a trio of intrepid youngsters, sick of being terrorised, decide to fight back. They are cutely pubescent ..read more »

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from 25,309 members
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Happy Endings
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Jesse Bradford
Director: Don Roos
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This comedic drama from writer-director Don Roos ('The Opposite Of Sex') comes packed with many unusual themes including abortion, homosexual parenting, teenage pregnancy, marrying for green cards, and the unscrupulous practice of bringing a client to orgasm at the conclusion of a massage (the ..read more »

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Mona Lisa Smile
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Director: Mike Newell
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Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »

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Mona Lisa Smile - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles
Director: Mike Newell
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Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts ..read more »

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Secretary
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies
Director: Steven Shainberg
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The masochist says to the sadist, "Hurt me." The sadist replies, "No." Everybody's happy. This strange balance plays heavily into the Steven Shainberg-directed SECRETARY, based on a short story by Mary Gaitskill. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a troubled young woman with a secret, destructive ..read more »

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Adaptation.
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Director: Spike Jonze
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Following up their acclaimed debut, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze are back to metaphysical moviemaking with ADAPTATION. The film stars Nicolas Cage as both Charlie Kaufman and his fictionalised identical twin brother Donald. While the boisterous Donald ..read more »

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Waterland
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Grant Warnock
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about 30 year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget. Though he shares them with his students, ..read more »

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