Jeff Daniels's biography
Jeff Daniels is 67 years old film actor born on on Saturday 19th of February 1955. According to year of birth 1955 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 19th of February means he is Pisces. Pisces is a Watery Sign. They are very intuitive people. They are empathic, emotional and highly spiritual in nature.
He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film actor. You can know him also as voice actor, musician, playwright, director, stage actor, television actor. He is recently known as film director. He received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series The Newsroom in 2013
Jeff Daniels's schools
We found 2 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University.
Detailed informations about his schools
- Attended Central Michigan University before dropping out to pursue acting.
Jeff Daniels's career
His main focus is to be film actor. He is famous thanks to Dumb and Dumber. You could see him also in The Newsroom, Godless.
Awards and competitions
Jeff Daniels's Awards
- Nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance for a Leading Actor in a Play for "God of Carnage".
- Daniels, a Michigan native and Civil War buff who played the role of Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals," wrote the foreword to Richard Bak's award-winning book, "A Distant Thunder: Michigan in the Civil War".
- He won his Leading Actor Emmy Award for The Newsroom (2012) the night before principal photography of Dumb and Dumber To (2014) began.
- When he was in the original Broadway cast of Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning black comedy "God of Carnage" with James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis, Gandolfini told him that if he ever was going to do TV, he should do it on HBO.
- James Gandolfini, Hope Davis, Marcia Gay Harden and he were awarded the 2012 Back Stage Garland Award for Ensemble for "God of Carnage" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category for his role as John O'Neill in The Looming Tower (2018), but lost to Darren Criss from American Crime Story (2016).
- Won the 2018 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category for his role as Frank Griffin in Godless (2017).
Jeff Daniels's quotes
- [on how he got through filming a sex scene in The Squid and the Whale (2005) with Anna Paquin, who had 9 years earlier played his daughter in the goose-filled family film Fly Away Home (1996)]: We tried not to think about ... you know, geese.
- One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
Jeff Daniels's body shape
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