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Jeff Daniels

American actor, musician and playwright

Person · Open Library

Born: 1955-02-19
Works: 32

Top works

The car of the future
My Brother the Boxer - the Terry Daniels Story
Gem Guide to Aircraft of WWI
My Brother the Boxer
Gordon Stretton, Black British Transoceanic Jazz Pioneer

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Film & TV

Acting · Athens, Georgia, USA

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.…

Known for

The Brink of War — Ronald Reagan2026
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words — Self2025
The American Revolution — Thomas Jefferson (voice)2025
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story — Self2024
A Man in Full — Charlie Croker2024
The Saint of Second Chances — Narrator (voice)2023
Bye Bye Barry — Self2023
The American Buffalo — (voice)2023
Shrinking2023
Shrinking — Randy2023

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1955-02-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 10,007
Total plays: 58,096

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Rich Feature Hierarchies for Accurate Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation
· 2014 · cited 23,624x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,235x
Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,232x
Activating Mutations in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Underlying Responsiveness of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Gefitinib
· 2004 · cited 9,518x
Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
· 2005 · cited 9,337x

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Key facts

Born: Jeffrey Warren Daniels , ( 1955-02-19 ) February 19, 1955 (age 71) , Athens, Georgia , U.S.
Occupation: Actor
Years active: 1976–present
Spouse: Kathleen Rosemary Treado ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 )
Website: jeffdaniels .com

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Key dates

Born: 19 February 1955

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Family name: Daniels
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Athens
Occupation: actor
Educated at: Eastern Michigan University
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Notable work

Article

Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He is known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for five Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards.

He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama Ragtime (1981) followed by James L. Brooks's Terms of Endearment (1983), and Mike Nichols's Heartburn (1986). He then received three Golden Globe Award nominations for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Jonathan Demme's Something Wild (1986), and Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale (2005). He starred in a variety of genre films such as Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Fly Away Home (1996), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Pleasantville (1998), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), RV (2006) and Dumb and Dumber To (2014). He also took roles in critically acclaimed films such as The Hours (2002), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), Looper (2012), Steve Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).