Jeff Daniels

Gender: Male
Born: 19th February 1955 (currently 57 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Frasier, The Newsroom
Movies: 101 Dalmatians, Arachnophobia, Blood Work, Chasing Sleep, Dumb & Dumber, Fly Away Home, Gettysburg, Good Night, and Good Luck., It's the Rage, Love Hurts, Pleasantville, Rain Without Thunder, RV, Something Wild, Speed, Terms of Endearment, The Butcher's Wife, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Squid and the Whale, Trial and Error, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, The Lookout, Mama's Boy, Space Chimps, Checking Out, Escanaba in da Moonlight, My Favorite Martian, Gods and Generals, Because of Winn-Dixie, State of Play, Grand Tour: Disaster in Time, There Goes the Neighborhood, Radio Days, Infamous, I Witness, Sweet Nothing in My Ear, Super Sucker, The Crossing, Cheaters, The House on Carroll Street, The Answer Man, Traitor, Imaginary Heroes, Away We Go, 2 Days in the Valley, Marie, The Hours, Howl, Paper Man, A Plumm Summer, Fifth of July, Heartburn, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Goodbye Girl, Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story, Sweet Hearts Dance, Right Angle, No Place Like Home, Redwood Curtain, Looper, America's Classic Ballparks, More As This Story Develops, Forcin' the Blues, An Invasion of Privacy

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, and 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 Motion Picture—Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several others for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). He played Debra Winger's husband in the 1983 Oscar-winning film Terms of Endearment.

Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, and grew up in Chelsea, Michigan, where his father, Robert Lee Daniels, still

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