Jeff Daniels
Actor, Film actor
1955 –
Who is Jeff Daniels?
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician, and playwright. He founded a nonprofit theater 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, and has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage, along with his other three castmates.
His film debut was in 1981's Ragtime, and his most recent film is Looper in 2012. For his work, he has received four 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. He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several others for his work in The Squid and the Whale. He played Debra Winger’s husband in the 1983 Oscar-winning film Terms of Endearment. Currently, he stars as Will McAvoy in Aaron Sorkin's HBO television series The Newsroom, for which he won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2013.
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- Born
- Feb 19, 1955
Athens - Also known as
- Jeffrey Warren Daniels
- Jeffry Warren "Jeff" Daniels
- Daniels, Jeff
- Parents
- Spouses
- Kathleen Rosemary Treado
(1979/07/13 - )
- Kathleen Rosemary Treado
- Children
- Religion
- Methodism
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Central Michigan University
- Lived in
- Chelsea
- Athens
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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