Up for auction "Mona Lisa Smile" Maggie Gyllenhaal Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo. This item is authenticated By Todd
Mueller Autographs and comes with their certificate of authenticity.
ES-1773B
Margalit "Maggie" Ruth
Gyllenhaal[a][1][2][3] (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of
the Gyllenhaal family, she is
the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older
sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal
began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's
films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). Gyllenhaal received critical
acclaim for her leading performances in the erotic romantic comedy drama Secretary (2002)
and the drama Sherrybaby (2006), each of which
earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination.
After several commercially successful films in 2006, including World Trade Center,
she received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008).
For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination
for Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the
comedies and dramas: Nanny McPhee and the Big
Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011),
and Won't Back Down (2012).
Her other roles include a Secret Service agent
in the action-thriller White House Down (2013), a musician in Frank (2014), and the title role in the drama The
Kindergarten Teacher (2018). In 2021, Gyllenhaal made her
writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, for which she won the Venice International Film
Festival's Best Screenplay Award and
was nominated for the Academy
Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Gyllenhaal has also appeared in
five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She
has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller
miniseries The Honourable Woman.
For her performance, she won a Golden Globe award for Best Actress, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award. She also produced and starred in
the HBO period drama series The Deuce (2017–19).
Gyllenhaal has been married to actor Peter Sarsgaard since 2009 and they have two children
together.