Stephen Gyllenhaal

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Virginia Lowrie (née Childs) and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal. He is of Swedish and English descent; through his father, he is a member of the Gyllenhaal family, and a descendant of the cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal, who was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred upon him the crest and family name, "Gyllenhaal".{{Cite web |title=The Gyllenhaal Family Tree Project |url=http://www.gyllenhaal.org |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=www.gyllenhaal.org}}Stated on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS, April 22, 2012.

Gyllenhaal grew up in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia in a close-knit Swedenborgian family. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972, with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Ogden.

Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award. In 1990, Gyllenhaal directed Family of Spies, which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. In 1992, he directed the feature film Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke. Since 1993, he has focused primarily on directing in television, including an episode of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He directed his son, Jake, then 14 years old, in an episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street that aired in 1994.{{cite web |title=Episode Guide |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0604349/?ref_=ttep_ep1 |website=IMDb}} Gyllenhaal directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives, Rectify, and Blue Bloods. In 2011, Gyllenhaal directed Girl Fight which starred Anne Heche and earned Gyllenhaal a nomination for Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Miniseries or TV Film.{{cite press release |url=http://www.dga.org/News/PressReleases/2012/0110-DGA-Awards-Announcement-TV-Nominations.aspx |title=64th Annual DGA Awards Television Nominees Announced – 64th Annual DGA Awards Television Nominees Announced |publisher=Directors Guild of America |access-date=July 30, 2017}}

He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood,{{cite web |url=http://www.authorsbookshop.com/gyllenhaalclaptrap/ |title=Claptrap |publisher=AuthorsBookshop.com |access-date=July 30, 2017 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201111659/http://www.authorsbookshop.com/gyllenhaalclaptrap/ |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |df=mdy-all }} was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York–based literary small press, Cantarabooks.{{cite web|url=http://www.cantarabooks.com|title=A Literary Press |publisher=Cantarabooks |access-date=July 30, 2017}}

In 2013, Gyllenhaal directed a backdoor pilot originally titled Sworn to Silence that aired as the Lifetime TV movie An Amish Murder. It stars Neve Campbell as a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community she was shunned from years ago.{{cite web |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/07/lifetime-greenlights-movie-backdoor-pilot-sworn-to-silence-starring-neve-campbell/113020/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222204448/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/07/lifetime-greenlights-movie-backdoor-pilot-sworn-to-silence-starring-neve-campbell/113020/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 22, 2011 |title=Lifetime Greenlights Movie-Backdoor Pilot 'Sworn To Silence' Starring Neve Campbell – Ratings |publisher=TVbytheNumbers |date=December 7, 2011|access-date=July 30, 2017}} Gyllenhaal is also in post-production on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent.{{cite web|url=http://www.exquisitecontinent.com/|title=An Exquisite Continent|publisher=Exquisitecontinent.com|access-date=June 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527224126/http://www.exquisitecontinent.com/|archive-date=May 27, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}

In 2019, Gyllenhaal was on the "Social Impact Advisory Board" of the San Diego International Film Festival with Susan Sarandon and Cecelia Peck.{{Cite web|title=San Diego International Film Festival. October 15—20 2019. The Power of Perspective. Come Watch With Us.|url=https://2r99hr48cntaf3xlh3gmcod1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com//wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Program-compressed.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028222652/https://2r99hr48cntaf3xlh3gmcod1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com//wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Program-compressed.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2019-10-28|date=2019-10-28|access-date=2019-10-28}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/san-diego/article/Nathan-Fletcher-Joins-San-Diego-International-Film-Festival-Advisory-Board-20191015|title=Nathan Fletcher Joins San Diego International Film Festival Advisory Board|author=|website=Broadway World|language=en|access-date=2019-10-28}}

Gyllenhaal was married to screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal for 32 years, from 1977 until their divorce was finalized in 2009.{{cite web |date=October 16, 2008 |title=Maggie and Jake Now Children of Divorce |url=http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/16/jake-and-maggie-now-children-of-divorce/ |access-date=July 30, 2017 |publisher=TMZ.com}} Together, they are the parents of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.

In July 2011, he married Kathleen Man, a filmmaker and professor who was a co-producer on Gyllenhaal's 2012 film Grassroots. Their son Luke was born in 2014.{{cite web |author=Jamie Wells |date=October 25, 2016 |title=Kathleen Gyllenhaal: Health meets Hollywood Q&A {{!}} American Council on Science and Health |url=http://www.acsh.org/news/2016/10/25/kathleen-gyllenhaal-health-meets-hollywood-qa-10351 |access-date=February 26, 2017 |website=www.acsh.org}}{{Cite web |last=Gyllenhaal |first=Kathleen Man |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Pregnant? Stressed? Science Says Talk to Your Baby |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pregnant-stressed-science-says-talk-to-your-baby_us_57a0093ce4b004301c51c125 |access-date=July 30, 2017 |work=The Huffington Post}}

His brother, Anders Gyllenhaal,{{cite web |date=May 6, 2009 |title=The Pulitzer Prizes |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/gyllenhaal+chair |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100813104435/http://www.pulitzer.org/gyllenhaal+chair |archive-date=August 13, 2010 |access-date=October 18, 2010 |publisher=Pulitzer.org |df=mdy-all}} is executive editor of the Miami Herald.

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