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02-20-2019, 05:28 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2019/02/19/february-19-happy-birthday-jeff-daniels/
Jeff Daniels celebrates his 64th birthday today. Daniels was in a summer theater program at Eastern Michigan University in 1976, when he was invited to come to New York to join the Circle Theater Company. He appeared in several of their off-Broadway productions in the late seventies, and made his Broadway in a Circle production of Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July. Daniels has gone on to receive a pair of Tony nominations for Best Actor in a Play. The first was for Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, the second for starring with Michelle Williams in David Harrower’s Blackbird.
Daniels began working in film in the early 1980s, with supporting roles in Ragtime and Terms of Endearment. In 1985, he starred in the dual role of Tom Baxter and Gil Shepherd in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
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Daniels has received two additional Golden Globe nominations, for Wild at Heart and, many years later, for The Squid and the Whale. In the early 1990s, Daniels starred in the two biggest box office successes of his career, Speed and Dumb and Dumber, and also played Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg. More recently, he has been in films such as The Martian, Steve Jobs, and last year’s The Catcher Was a Spy (as Wild Bill Donovan).
Daniels has also had recent successes on television. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for starring on HBO’s The Newsroom, winning for the first season. Last year he was an Emmy nominee for two different miniseries. He was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Hulu’s The Looming Tower, losing out to Darren Criss, and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, for Netflix’s Godless, which he won.
Daniels is currently back on Broadway, starring as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
Jeff Daniels celebrates his 64th birthday today. Daniels was in a summer theater program at Eastern Michigan University in 1976, when he was invited to come to New York to join the Circle Theater Company. He appeared in several of their off-Broadway productions in the late seventies, and made his Broadway in a Circle production of Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July. Daniels has gone on to receive a pair of Tony nominations for Best Actor in a Play. The first was for Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage, the second for starring with Michelle Williams in David Harrower’s Blackbird.
Daniels began working in film in the early 1980s, with supporting roles in Ragtime and Terms of Endearment. In 1985, he starred in the dual role of Tom Baxter and Gil Shepherd in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo, and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical.
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Daniels has received two additional Golden Globe nominations, for Wild at Heart and, many years later, for The Squid and the Whale. In the early 1990s, Daniels starred in the two biggest box office successes of his career, Speed and Dumb and Dumber, and also played Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg. More recently, he has been in films such as The Martian, Steve Jobs, and last year’s The Catcher Was a Spy (as Wild Bill Donovan).
Daniels has also had recent successes on television. He was a three-time Emmy nominee for starring on HBO’s The Newsroom, winning for the first season. Last year he was an Emmy nominee for two different miniseries. He was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Hulu’s The Looming Tower, losing out to Darren Criss, and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, for Netflix’s Godless, which he won.
Daniels is currently back on Broadway, starring as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.