Jeff Daniels

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1955-02-19 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Athens, Georgia, USA

Jeff Daniels

Biography

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 Motio...

Acting

2002

The Hours

as Louis Waters

1994

Speed

as Harry

2005

1993

Gettysburg

as Col. Joshua Chamberlain

1998

Pleasantville

as Mr. Johnson

2005

The Squid and the Whale

as Bernard Berkman

1985

The Purple Rose of Cairo

as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd

1991

The Butcher's Wife

as Dr. Alex Tremor

2009

The Answer Man

as Arlen Faber

1983

Terms of Endearment

as Flap Horton

1996

Fly Away Home

as Thomas Alden

1990

Arachnophobia

as Ross Jennings

1986

Something Wild

as Charles Driggs

2008

Space Chimps

as Zartog (voice)

1987

Radio Days

as Biff Baxter

1999

It's the Rage

as Warren Harding

1996

1994

Dumb and Dumber

as Harry Dunne

2007

The Lookout

as Lewis

2001

Chasing Sleep

as Ed Saxon

2004

Imaginary Heroes

as Ben Travis

1981

Ragtime

as P.C. O'Donnell

2006

RV

as Travis Gornicke

2002

Blood Work

as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone

1996

2 Days in the Valley

as Alvin Strayer

2006

Infamous

as Alvin Dewey

1999

My Favorite Martian

as Tim O'Hara

2007

Mama's Boy

as Mert Rosenbloom

1986

Heartburn

as Richard

2000

The Crossing

as Gen. George Washington

1992

Timescape

as Ben Wilson

2000

Cheaters

as Dr. Gerard Plecki

2003

I Witness

as James Rhodes

2003

Gods and Generals

as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

2010

Howl

as Professor David Kirk

2009

State of Play

as George Fergus

2023

The Saint of Second Chances

as Narrator (voice)

2005

2009

Paper Man

as Richard Dunn

1997

Trial and Error

as Charles Tuttle

2004

The Goodbye Girl

as Elliot Garfield

2001

1988

Sweet Hearts Dance

as Sam Manners

2009

Away We Go

as Jerry Farlander

2008

A Plumm Summer

as Narrator

1988

Checking Out

as Ray Macklin

2012

Looper

as Abe

1985

Marie: A True Story

as Eddie Sisk

2014

Dumb and Dumber To

as Harry Dunne

1988

1995

Redwood Curtain

as Lyman Fellers

2004

Remembering Ragtime

as P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)

1989

No Place Like Home

as Mike Cooper

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy

as Bill Donovan

1990

Love Hurts

as Paul Weaver

2023

2008

1992

2015

The Martian

as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders

2003

Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1993

Rain Without Thunder

as Jonathan Garson

2015

Steve Jobs

as John Sculley

2016

Allegiant

as David

2015

Of Miracles and Men

as Self - Narrator

2008

Traitor

as Carter

2002

Super Sucker

as Fred Barlow

2019

Guest Artist

as Joseph Harris

1982

Fifth of July

as Jed Jenkins

1983

An Invasion of Privacy

as Francis Ryan

2020

Adam

as Mickey

-

Reykjavik

as Ronald Reagan

2018

Production

2019

Guest Artist

as Writer

2019

Guest Artist

as Producer

2002

Super Sucker

as Director

2002

Super Sucker

as Writer

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