Jeff Daniels

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 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 for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Birth Location Athens, Georgia, USA
Born 1955-02-19

Movies

Bye Bye Barry as Self
2023
The Saint of Second Chances as Narrator (voice)
2023
Adam as Mickey
2020
Guest Artist as Joseph Harris
2019
2018
The Catcher Was a Spy as Bill Donovan
2018
The Russian Five as Himself
2018
Allegiant as David
2016
Steve Jobs as John Sculley
2015
The Martian as Teddy Sanders
2015
Of Miracles and Men as Self - Narrator
2015
Dumb and Dumber To as Harry Dunne
2014
Looper as Abe
2012
Howl as Professor David Kirk
2010
Paper Man as Richard Dunn
2009
Away We Go as Jerry Farlander
2009
State of Play as George Fergus
2009
The Answer Man as Arlen Faber
2009
Traitor as Carter
2008
Space Chimps as Zartog (voice)
2008
A Plumm Summer as Narrator
2008
Sweet Nothing in My Ear as Dan Miller
2008
Mama's Boy as Mert Rosenbloom
2007
The Lookout as Lewis
2007
Infamous as Alvin Dewey
2006
RV as Travis Gornicke
2006
The Squid and the Whale as Bernard Berkman
2005
Good Night, and Good Luck. as Sig Mickelson
2005
Because of Winn-Dixie as Preacher
2005
Remembering Ragtime as P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)
2004
Imaginary Heroes as Ben Travis
2004
The Goodbye Girl as Elliot Garfield
2004
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2003
I Witness as James Rhodes
2003
Gods and Generals as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
2003
The Hours as Louis Waters
2002
Blood Work as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
2002
Super Sucker as Fred Barlow
2002
Chasing Sleep as Ed Saxon
2001
Escanaba in da Moonlight as Rueben Soady
2001
Cheaters as Dr. Gerard Plecki
2000
The Crossing as Gen. George Washington
2000
It's the Rage as Warren Harding
1999
My Favorite Martian as Tim O'Hara
1999
Pleasantville as Mr. Johnson
1998
Trial and Error as Charles Tuttle
1997
101 Dalmatians as Roger
1996
Fly Away Home as Thomas Alden
1996
2 Days in the Valley as Alvin Strayer
1996
Redwood Curtain as Lyman Fellers
1995
Dumb and Dumber as Harry Dunne
1994
Speed as Harold 'Harry' Temple
1994
Gettysburg as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
1993
Rain Without Thunder as Jonathan Garson
1993
There Goes the Neighborhood as Willis Embry
1992
Timescape as Ben Wilson
1992
1991
The Butcher's Wife as Dr. Alex Tremor
1991
1990
Arachnophobia as Dr. Ross Jennings
1990
Love Hurts as Paul Weaver
1990
No Place Like Home as Mike Cooper
1989
Checking Out as Ray Macklin
1989
Sweet Hearts Dance as Sam Manners
1988
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial as Lt. Steve Maryk
1988
1988
Radio Days as Biff Baxter
1987
Something Wild as Charles Driggs
1986
Heartburn as Richard
1986
Marie as Eddie Sisk
1985
The Purple Rose of Cairo as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
1985
Terms of Endearment as Flap Horton
1983
An Invasion of Privacy as Francis Ryan
1983
Fifth of July as Jed Jenkins
1982
Ragtime as P.C. O'Donnell
1981

Movies

Guest Artist Writer
2019
Guest Artist Producer
2019
Super Sucker Writer
2002
Super Sucker Director
2002
2001