Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Waterland (1992)
- Dir. Stephen Gyllenhaal
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Lena Headey…
- Jeremy Irons plays a history teacher in America who recounts his own suppressed coming of age to his cynical students. Adapted from Graham Swift's…
- Dangerous Woman, A (1994)
- Dir. Steven Gyllenhaal
Feat. Debra Winger, Gabriel Byrne, Barbara Hershey…
- Debra Winger gives her most impressive performance yet as a simple woman whose compulsive honesty wins her few friends. Reminiscent of the plays of…
- Cecil B. Demented (2000)
- Dir. John Waters
Feat. Stephen Dorff, Melanie Griffith, Alicia Witt…
- An unruly and somewhat passe battlecry against the mediocrity of Hollywood from the Low Priest of Pop Culture, John Waters. In a weird parody of…
- Secretary (2002)
- Dir. Steven Shainberg
Feat. James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies…
- A spanking good black comedy detailing the bizarre relationship between a peculiar, ill–tempered lawyer and the meek secretary he…
- Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
- Dir. Mike Newell
Feat. Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles…
- Julia Roberts is restrained and fairly effective in this Ivy–League drama, set at the renowned Wellesley College in the 1950s, where she…
- Casa de los Babys (2003)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden…
- Another quality ensemble drama from dir. John Sayles, that this time brings together six American women waiting to start a family through a Mexican…
- Criminal (2004)
- Dir. Greg Jacobs
Feat. John C. Reilly, Diego Luna, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A reasonably successful American replay of the Argentian thriller NINE QUEENS, this sees a con artist (Reilly) take an apprentice (Luna) under his…
- Happy Endings (2005)
- Dir. Don Roos
Feat. Lisa Kudrow, Steve Coogan, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A clutch of hedonistic Americans collide, abuse and impregnate each other in this typically light yet smart black comedy from the dir. of THE…
- Great New Wonderful, The (2005)
- Dir. Danny Leiner
Feat. Olympia Dukakis, Jim Gaffigan, Judy Greer…
- New York City drama centered around five interweaving stories all of which exhibit a distinctive characteristic of a changing society post–911.…
- Monster House (2006)
- Dir. Gil Kenan
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee
- Rollercoaster haunted–house ride for kids expertly CGI–animated around the story of three suburban teens who decide to challenge a…
- World Trade Center (2006)
- Dir. Oliver Stone
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- Powerful and gripping rendering of the plight of two NYC cops who became trapped in the rubble of the collapsing World Trade Center in the 9/11…
- Trust the Man (2006)
- Dir. Bart Freundlich
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Billy Crudup…
- A light New York relationship drama about two couples and the speed–bumps they run into when temptation comes–a–knocking.
While…
- Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
- Dir. Marc Forster
Feat. Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A self–consciously 'clever' comedy with a cunning conceit – tax inspector Will Ferrell discovers that his drab life is being narrated and…
- Sherrybaby (2006)
- Dir. Laurie Collyer
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Danny Trejo, Giancarlo Esposito…
- Overfamiliar but sincere portrait of a recovering addict, with a warts–and–all Maggie Gyllenhaal fresh out of jail and determined to go…
- Paris, Je T'aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006)
- Dir. Olivier Assayas, Gurinder Chadha, Sylvain Chomet
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi…
- A prestige line–up of actors and filmmakers converge in this grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance. With each vignette…
- Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)
- Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart…
- Christopher Nolan’s follow–up to BATMAN BEGINS pitches Christian Bale’s Batman against Heath Ledger’s lunatic Joker, propelling this…
- Away We Go (2009)
- Dir. Sam Mendes
Feat. John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Catherine O'Hara…
- An ersatz hipster road movie that follows a 30–something expectant couple as they travel across America looking for the perfect place to start…
- Crazy Heart (2009)
- Dir. Scott Cooper
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Keane…
- In an Oscar–winning turn, Jeff Bridges plays faded country music star Bad Blake, who swaggers from one dive to the next until his friendship…
- Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)
- Dir. Susanna White
Feat. Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor…
- Emma Thompson again pens and stars in the second installment about the otherworldly nanny, accompanied again by a staggering array of British…
- Hysteria (2011)
- Dir. Tanya Wexler
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce…
- A buoyant, light–to–touch period romance about the 19th Century invention of the vibrator, devised as cure for the female ailment know as…
- Won't Back Down (2012)
- Dir. Daniel Barnz
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Oscar Isaac…
- A well–meaning but preachy social drama of community action, centred on two spirited mothers determined to bring change to an ailing inner city…
- White House Down (2013)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- Conveniently on a tour of the White House, action hero beefcake Channing Tatum scrambles to save the President (Jamie Foxx) from an invading…
- Frank (2014)
- Dir. Lenny Abrahamson
Feat. Domhnall Gleeson, Scoot McNairy, Maggie Gyllenhaal…
- A lovable, off–beat indie rock satire in which Michael Fassbender plays the leader of a group of experimental musicians who lives permanently…
- Honourable Woman, The (TV Mini-series) (2014)
- Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Rea, Lubna Azabal…
- A rigorous, fast–paced thriller with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who inherits her father's arms business, and finds herself in a international…
- Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018)
- Dir. Sara Colangelo
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar…
- English–language remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name about a jaded teacher, mother and aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one…