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His mother, Naomi Foner<\/a>, is a screenwriter, and his father, Stephen Gyllenhaal<\/a>, is a director. Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>, his older sister, also pursued acting, and the siblings have shared the screen several times, including in Donnie Darko<\/a> (2001).<\/p>\n Gyllenhaal\u2019s first role was small, appearing as Billy Crystal<\/a>\u2019s son in the 1991 comedy City Slickers<\/a>. His parents were cautious about his career, sometimes restricting roles that required him to be away from home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jake Gyllenhaal, 45, has had one of Hollywood\u2019s most fascinating careers, evolving from a promising child actor into a versatile and respected performer. Born Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, he grew up surrounded by filmmaking. His mother, Naomi Foner, is a screenwriter, and his father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2302913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2302912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Jake-Gyllenhaal-45-Looks-Nearly-Identical-to-His-\u2018October-Sky.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2302914,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302912\/revisions\/2302914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}