Jeff Daniels

Acting · Born 1955-02-19 in Athens, Georgia, USA

Biography

Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. 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…

Filmography

• The Hours as Louis Waters
• Speed as Harry
• Good Night, and Good Luck. as Sig Mickelson
• Gettysburg as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
• Pleasantville as Mr. Johnson
• The Squid and the Whale as Bernard Berkman
• The Purple Rose of Cairo as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
• Terms of Endearment as Flap Horton
• Fly Away Home as Thomas Alden
• Radio Days as Biff Baxter

TV

• Frasier as Doug (voice)
• The Newsroom as Will McAvoy
• Godless as Frank Griffin
• Impractical Jokers as Self
• Shrinking
• Shrinking as Randy
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• Hawaii Five-O as Neal Forrester
• The View as Self