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Jeff Daniels
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 Michiga…
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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 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).
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2026
The Brink of War
Movie Ronald Reagan
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2025
The American Revolution
TV show Thomas Jefferson (voice)
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2025
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
Movie Self
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2024
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Movie Self
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2024
A Man in Full
TV show Charlie Croker
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2023
Bye Bye Barry
Movie Self
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2023
The American Buffalo
TV show (voice)
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2023
The Saint of Second Chances
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2023
Shrinking
TV show
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2021
American Rust
TV show Det. Del Harris
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2021
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2021
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Movie Self
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2021
Hemingway
TV show Ernest Hemingway (voice)
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2020
The Comey Rule
TV show James Comey
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2020
Adam
Movie Mickey
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2020
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
TV show Himself
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2020
Washington
TV show Self - Narrator
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2019
The Morning Show
TV show Lukas
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2019
Guest Artist
Movie Joseph Harris
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2018
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
Movie The Emperor
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2018
The Catcher Was a Spy
Movie Bill Donovan
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2018
The Russian Five
Movie self
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2018
The Looming Tower
TV show John O'Neill
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2017
Godless
TV show Frank Griffin
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2017
The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer
TV show Creator
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2017
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
TV show Narrator
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2016
Allegiant
Movie David
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2015
Hunting Hitler
TV show Creator
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2015
Steve Jobs
Movie John Sculley
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2015
The Martian
Movie Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
ARES: live
TV show Teddy Sanders
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2015
Of Miracles and Men
Movie Self - Narrator
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Dumb and Dumber To
Movie Harry Dunne
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV show Self
