Stephen Gyllenhaal

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1949-10-04 (75 years old)

Place of Birth Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Also Known As Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal

Stephen Gyllenhaal

Biography

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born October 4, 1949; Cleveland) is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award. In 1990, Gyllenhaal directed Family of Spies, which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. In 1992, he directed the feature film Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke. Since 1993, he has focused primarily on directing in television, including an episode of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He directed his son, Jake, then 14 years old, in an episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street that aired in 1994. Gyllenhaal directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives, Rectify, and Blue Bloods. In 2011, Gyllenhaal directed Girl Fight which starred Anne Heche and earned Gyllenhaal a DGA Nomination for outstanding directorial achievement in movies for television. He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood, was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York–based literary small press, Cantarabooks. In 2013, Gyllenhaal directed a backdoor pilot originally titled Sworn to Silence that aired as the Lifetime TV movie An Amish Murder. It stars Neve Campbell as a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community she was shunned from years ago. Gyllenhaal is also in post-production on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent. In 2019, Gyllenhaal was on the "Social Impact Advisory Board" of the San Diego International Film Festival with Susan Sarandon and Cecelia Peck.

Known For

Director

2023
UnCharitable

as Director

2016
So B. It

as Director

2016
Billions

as Director

2015
Bosch

as Director

2013
An Amish Murder

as Director

2013
Rectify

as Director

2012
Grassroots

as Director

2012
NYC 22

as Director

2011
Girl Fight

as Director

2010
Blue Bloods

as Director

2008
The Mentalist

as Director

2007
Army Wives

as Director

2006
Time Bomb

as Director

2005
Numb3rs

as Director

2003
Lucky

as Director

2002
2002
Everwood

as Director

2002
The Shield

as Director

2002
Manchild

as Director

2002
2001
Warden of Red Rock

as Director

2001
The Warden

as Director

2000
The $treet

as Director

1999
Resurrection

as Director

1999
Wasteland

as Director

1998
Homegrown

as Director

1998
L.A. Doctors

as Director

1998
Felicity

as Director

1996
Shattered Mind

as Director

1995
Losing Isaiah

as Director

1993
A Dangerous Woman

as Director

1992
Waterland

as Director

1991
Paris Trout

as Director

1990
Twin Peaks

as Director

1990
Family of Spies

as Director

1988
Promised a Miracle

as Director

1988
Question of Faith

as Director

1988
Hothouse

as Director

1987
Abduction

as Director

1985
Certain Fury

as Director

1985
The Insiders

as Director

1980
1972

Writer

2012
Grassroots

as Screenplay

1998
Homegrown

as Story

1998
Homegrown

as Screenplay

1985
The New Kids

as Story

1985
The New Kids

as Screenplay

Producer

2002
Living with the Dead

as Co-Executive Producer

1996
Shattered Mind

as Producer

1978

Actor

2007
Crashing

as Writer