Gyllenhaal has been associated with the world of cinema since early childhood, began acting at the age of 11. He played his first role in the film "City Dudes" (1991), followed by small roles in various films. Jacob Gyllenhaal achieved world recognition in 1999, when the biographical drama "October Sky" was released, where he played his first major role — the teenager Homer Hickam. Gyllenhaal played the main role in the film "Donnie Darko". From that moment on, the young actor began to be offered roles in various projects: he plays a schoolboy caught in a global cataclysm in Roland Emmerich's disaster film "The Day After Tomorrow", a marine in the film "Marines" by Sam Mendes, in 2005 he played the role of Jack Twist in Ang Lee's highly acclaimed film "Brokeback Mountain".
Gyllenhaal is a three-time nominee (2006, 2015, 2017) and winner of the British Academy Award (2006), an Oscar nominee (2006), a two-time nominee for the Golden Globe Award (2011, 2015) and a three-time nominee for the Tony Theater Award (2021).
