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Jeff Daniels
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American actor, musician and playwright
Person · Open Library
- 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
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1955
Discography
- Live and Unplugged to Benefit the Purple Rose Theatre2004
- Grandfather's Hat2008
- Harry Dunne And The Songs Of A Disenchanted Hollywood Actor: Daytrotter Studio, Rock Island, IL, USA2008
- Live at the Purple Rose2009
- Keep It Right Here2010
- Days Like These2014
- Never gone before2016
- When My Fingers Find Your Strings2024
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10,007
- Total plays
- 58,096
Tags
Jeff Daniels is an American stage and film actor, as well as a musician. He is currently focusing on recording a number of songs that he has written throughout his life, apparently marking key moments. According to personal statements, it seems that he has undergone a complete career change, keeping busy with frequent gigs and two full length albums Grandfather's Hat and Jeff Daniels Live and Unplugged. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The rockabilly/country artist Luke McDaniel (b. 1927)
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics
· 2004 · cited 10,238x
- Activating Mutations in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Underlying Responsiveness of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer to Gefitinib
· 2004 · cited 9,523x
- Diagnosis and Management of the Metabolic Syndrome
· 2005 · cited 9,358x
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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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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.jeffdaniels.com
- Image
- Jeff Daniels at PaleyFest 2013.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1955-02-19
- Commons category
- Jeff Daniels
- name in native language
- Jeff Daniels
- birth name
- Jeffrey Warren Daniels
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
- social media followers
- 288561
- official blog URL
- www.jeffdaniels.com/category/blog
- number of viewers/listeners
- 367867
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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).