Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor whose film work ranges from independent drama to thrillers and large-scale productions. He came to prominence through October Sky and Donnie Darko, then played Jack Twist opposite Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain.

His subsequent roles include a cartoonist drawn into a murder investigation in David Fincher's Zodiac and an ambitious freelance crime cameraman in Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler. Other films include Jarhead, Source Code, End of Watch, Prisoners and Southpaw. These performances have frequently placed him in stories about obsession, uncertainty and the pressures that reshape an individual's sense of self.