Jeff Daniels
Birthday: 1955-02-19 | Place of Birth: Athens, Georgia, USAJeffrey 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
Known For
Acting
Role
as Det. Del Harris
as Ernest Hemingway (voice)
as James Comey
as Mickey
as Self - Narrator
as Himself
as John O'Neill
as Frank Griffin
as Narrator
as David
as John Sculley
as Self - Narrator
as Teddy Sanders
as Harry Dunne
as Abe
as Will McAvoy
as Professor David Kirk
as Arlen Faber
as George Fergus
as Jerry Farlander
as Richard Dunn
as Carter
as Dan Miller
as Narrator
as Zartog (voice)
as Mert Rosenbloom
as Alvin Dewey
as Travis Gornicke
