Emmy Award-Winning Actor, The Newsroom and Dumb and Dumber
Jeff Daniels: Biography at a Glance
- Jeff Daniels is an actor, musician, and playwright known for his Emmy Award-winning performance on HBO’s The Newsroom and his roles in Dumb and Dumber and Dumb and Dumber To.
- Daniels played the role of a lifetime as “Atticus Finch” in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.
- He won his second Emmy for Netflix’s Godless and was nominated for his role in Hulu’s The Looming Tower.
- Onstage, Daniels played the starring role in Blackbird which was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play and earned Daniels his second Tony nomination.
- Daniels has received many prestigious nominations over the course of his long career, including four Golden Globes, four SAG Awards, and two Emmys.
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Actor, musician, and playwright Jeff Daniels is known for his roles in such films as Terms of Endearment, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Arachnophobia, Dumb and Dumber, Dumb and Dumber To, The Hours, The Squid and the Whale, and Good Night and Good Luck, as well as his Emmy Award-winning performance on HBO’s The Newsroom. He received 2 Emmy nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for Hulu’s The Looming Tower and the other for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie in Netflix’s Godless for which he won and received his second Emmy since his win for The Newsroom.
Jeff can be seen playing the role of a lifetime as Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The casting reunites The Newsroom’s Emmy-winning actor with its creator, along with Scott Rudin, who produced the play with Lincoln Center Theater. Variety announced that To Kill A Mockingbird became the highest-grossing American play in Broadway history, a “certifiable smash and one of the greatest stage successes of this or any Broadway season.” The play shattered records, Forbes reported it raked in $1.58 million, making that the best single week for a non-musical in the 118-year existence of the Shubert Organization. TKAM is a NY Times Critic’s Pick calling it “elegiac and effective” and describing “Mr. Daniels’s unfussy mastery is useful throughout.”
Hulu’s 10-episode limited series The Looming Tower is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé by Lawrence Wright. The on-screen adaptation traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda and takes a controversial look at how the rivalry between the CIA and the FBI may have inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq. Daniels received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series. He also appeared in Scott Frank’s Western series Godless for Netflix which earned him an Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Limited Series, a SAG nomination, as well as a Critics’ Choice Award nomination.
Daniels’ revisited his starring role in Blackbird onstage Michelle Williams, which earned him his second Tony nomination. He first played the haunted Ray in Joe Mantello's off-Broadway staging of David Harrower's volatile story. Produced by Scott Rudin, the limited engagement was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play and actor nominations for both Daniels and Williams.
Daniels was seen in 20th Century Fox’s The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott which received a Golden Globe nomination, and Universal’s Steve Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle. Daniels has received many prestigious nominations over the course of his long career, including four Golden Globes (The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild, The Squid and the Whale, The Newsroom); four SAG Awards (The Hours, Good Night and Good Luck, The Newsroom); and two Emmys (The Newsroom).
Alongside screen work, Daniels has many stage credits to his name and is the founder of The Purple Rose Theater Company in Chelsea, Michigan. On Broadway, he has starred in Blackbird opposite Michelle Williams, in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage for which his performance earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor, A. R. Gurney’s The Golden Age, Lanford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain, and Wilson’s Fifth of July. He has appeared off-Broadway in productions of Wilson’s Lemon Sky and Bradley Rand Smith’s adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun.
Daniels is also a musician and songwriter and has recorded six full-length albums. He resides in Michigan with his wife and children.
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