Jeff Daniels

Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955)[1] is an American actor, musician, and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage productions, and television, for which he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards and received several Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Tony Award nominations. He made his film debut in Ragtime (1981), and amassed such additional credits as Terms of Endearment (1983), Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber (1994), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly Away Home (1996), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002), Gods and Generals (2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), The Lookout (2007), Looper (2012), Steve Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).

Jeff Daniels
Daniels at the Montclair Film Festival, May 2018
Born	Jeffrey Warren Daniels (1955-02-19) February 19, 1955 Athens, Georgia, U.S.
Education	Central Michigan University
Occupation	Actor musician playwright
Years active	1976–present
Home town	Chelsea, Michigan, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Kathleen Rosemary Treado ( m. 1979)
Children	3
Website	www.jeffdaniels.com

From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom, for which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. He won a second Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for his supporting performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and an additional nomination that year for his leading performance as John P. O'Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018). Daniels has also received a number of award nominations for his work on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his roles in the plays God of Carnage, Blackbird and To Kill a Mockingbird. He is the founder and current executive director of the Chelsea, Michigan–based Purple Rose Theatre Company.

Early life

Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, to Marjorie J. (née Ferguson) and Robert Lee "Bob" Daniels (1929-2012).[2][3][4][5] He spent the first six weeks of his life in Georgia, where his father was then teaching,[6] and grew up in Chelsea, Michigan. His father owned the Chelsea Lumber Company and was a one-time mayor of Chelsea.[7][8]

Daniels was raised Methodist.[9] He briefly attended Central Michigan University and participated in the school's theater program. In the summer of 1976, he attended the Eastern Michigan University drama school to participate in a special Bicentennial Repertory program, where he performed in The Hot l Baltimore and three other plays performed in repertoire. Marshall W. Mason was the guest director at EMU, and he invited Daniels to come to New York to work at the Circle Repertory Theatre, where he performed in Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson in the 1977–78 season. Daniels performed in New York in The Shortchanged Review (1979) at Second Stage Theatre.[10] It was the first show of the inaugural season for Second Stage Theatre.

Career

Stage career

During the mid 1970s through to the early 1990s, Daniels starred in a number of New York productions, on and off Broadway. On Broadway, he has appeared in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July (1980) alongside William Hurt, for which Daniels was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Supporting Actor. He also starred in A. R. Gurney's The Golden Age (1984) with Stockard Channing, and Wilson's Redwood Curtain (1993). Off-Broadway, he starred in Wilson's Lemon Sky with Cynthia Nixon where he received a Drama Desk nomination for and an Obie Award for his performance in the Circle Repertory Company production of Johnny Got His Gun. Daniels appeared in an Off-Broadway production of David Harrower's Blackbird alongside Allison Pill whom he would later reunite with in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom.

In 1991 Daniels founded the Purple Rose Theatre Company, a nonprofit stage company in Chelsea, Michigan named after the 1985 Woody Allen movie, The Purple Rose of Cairo, which Daniels starred in.[11] Daniels has written more than a dozen plays for the company.[12]

Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch in 2019.

In 2009, after a 16 year long absence, Daniels returned to Broadway in Yasmina Reza's original play God of Carnage alongside Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, and Marcia Gay Harden. The play centers around two sets of parents who agree to meet due to a fight among their respective sons. Their meeting starts out civilized however, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos. The play debuted at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in previews on February 28, 2009, and officially on March 22, 2009. Originally planned for a limited engagement to close July 19, 2009, the run was extended through February 28, 2010 before converting to an open-ended run. Daniels received his first Tony Award Nomination for Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance. The show won the Tony Award for Best Play.

In 2016 Daniels returned to Broadway in the Revival of David Harrower's Blackbird alongside Michelle Williams.[13] The play depicts a young woman (Williams) meeting a middle-aged man (Daniels), fifteen years after being sexually abused by him when she was twelve. The play ran at the Belasco Theatre on February 5, 2016 (37 previews), and opened officially on March 10 (through June 11, 108 performances) where it was directed by Joe Mantello and received widespread critical acclaim.[13] Daniels was nominated for his second Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.[13] Williams received a Tony Award nomination as well.[13]

In 2018, Daniels starred as Atticus Finch, reuniting with Aaron Sorkin in his stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. The play opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre. The production began previews on November 1, 2018, prior to an official opening on December 13, 2018. During the week ending on December 23, 2018, the production grossed over $1.5 million, breaking the record for box office grosses for a non-musical play in a theater owned by The Shubert Organization. Daniels received his third Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. The show received 8 other Tony Award nominations. In June 2019, producer Scott Rudin announced that Daniels would leave the production in November 2019 and would be succeeded by Ed Harris.[14] Daniels' last performance was on November 3, 2019.

Film and television

Daniels made his screen debut in Miloš Forman's Ragtime in 1981.[15] His next film was in James L. Brooks’s Terms of Endearment, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film follows an emotional relationship between mother (Shirley MacLaine) and daughter (Debra Winger). Daniels plays Winger's callow and unfaithful husband, a role which would prove to be his breakthrough.[16]

In 1985, Daniels starred in Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose Of Cairo alongside Mia Farrow and Danny Aiello. The film was met with critical praise earning a 91% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "lighthearted and sweet, Purple Rose stands as one of Woody Allen's more inventive – and enchantingly whimsical – pictures."[17] Daniels garnered a Golden Globe nomination for his performance[18] It was the film that inspired the name for the theater company he established.[19]

In 1986, he starred in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild as an unassuming businessman swept up into a wild night by a mysterious woman (Melanie Griffith) and earned his second Golden Globe nomination.[20]

In 1990, Daniels starred in two films (Love Hurts and The Butcher's Wife). His next notable role was as Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg. Daniels reprised the role of Chamberlain 10 years later in the prequel film Gods and Generals.[21]

In 1994 Daniels would co-star with Jim Carrey in one of his most commercially successful films, Dumb and Dumber. It was a noted departure for Daniels, owing to his status as a dramatic actor. That same year Daniels appeared with Keanu Reeves in the action blockbuster Speed; the film was an enormous hit, grossing over $350 million at the box office.[22]

Daniels would then host Saturday Night Live a second time before the release of the 1996 Disney live-action remake of 101 Dalmatians. Daniels starred as the owner of a litter of dalmatians stolen by the evil Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close). The film was successful, grossing $320 million. Also in 1996 was the family hit film Fly Away Home with Daniels as the supportive single father of Anna Paquin's goose-raising preteen. Daniels then had a critical and commercial misfire with Trial and Error (1997). He would rebound, however, with 1998's Pleasantville as diner owner Bill Johnson, who learns to act as an individual and rebel against the norm at the urging of Tobey Maguire's David. Also starring Reese Witherspoon, Joan Allen, and Don Knotts, Pleasantville was nominated for three Academy Awards. Daniels starred alongside Christopher Lloyd in the critically and commercially unsuccessful film, My Favorite Martian.[23]

Daniels starred in the TV films The Crossing, Cheaters, and the direct-to-video release Chasing Sleep. At this point, in the early 2000s, he began to focus more on his theater work at The Purple Rose Theatre as well as writing, starring, and directing the films Escanaba in da Moonlight and Super Sucker.[24][25]

Daniels's next major film role would be in Clint Eastwood's Blood Work, which received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure. He would rebound later that year with Stephen Daldry's Academy Award-winning The Hours alongside Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman. The film was also a financial success, grossing well over $100 million. Gods and Generals followed in 2003, as did the action film I Witness, which co-starred James Spader. Daniels then starred in Imaginary Heroes and the 2004 television film adaptation of fellow Michigander and friend Mitch Albom's bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven.[26]

The year 2005 proved to be a strong year for Daniels as he garnered notice as the star of the lauded Noah Baumbach film The Squid and the Whale with Laura Linney. Daniels received his third Golden Globe nomination for the film, about a divorcing couple and the effect the split has on their children. That year Daniels also starred in the family film adaptation of Because of Winn-Dixie. He would round out the year with a supporting role in George Clooney's Oscar-nominated film Good Night and Good Luck, starring David Straithairn, Patricia Clarkson, Robert Downey Jr., and Frank Langella.[27][28]

In 2006, Daniels appeared in the Truman Capote biopic Infamous starring Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Gwyneth Paltrow and Sigourney Weaver. The film was compared to Bennett Miller's 2005 film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener and Chris Cooper.

Daniels then starred in Barry Sonnenfeld's family film RV, alongside Robin Williams, as the redneck comic foil to Williams' uptight business man. He also starred in two other independent films, Mama's Boy and The Lookout, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award.[29]

He then took back-to-back supporting roles in political thrillers: Traitor with Don Cheadle and State of Play with Russell Crowe and Rachel McAdams. Also in 2009, Daniels appeared in the indie hit Away We Go. 2010 was a slow year for Daniels. He continued his theater work and had a starring role in the little-seen indie Howl, alongside James Franco as Allen Ginsberg.[30] In 2012 Daniels became the new announcing voice for Apple with the iPhone 5 ads.

Daniels had a career resurgence with his turn in Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014) as fictional news anchor Will McAvoy. The opening scene of the pilot episode "We Just Decided To", in which Daniels gives a monologue on the state of American greatness, has been viewed more than 13 million times.[31] While the show received mixed reviews, Daniels won the Primetime Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the first season.[32] The series ran for two more seasons, for which Daniels was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award. The show also starred Emily Mortimer, Sam Waterston, Olivia Munn, Alison Pill, Dev Patel, and Jane Fonda.

In 2015, Daniels reunited with Sorkin in the biographical drama film Steve Jobs with Michael Fassbender, and Kate Winslet. He portrayed CEO John Sculley. Daniels starred alongside Michael Fassbender, and Kate Winslet, who both received Academy Award nominations for their performances. The film was directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin. The film was a critical success earning an 86% on Rotten Tomatoes with the consensus reading, "Like the tech giant co-founded by its subject, Steve Jobs gathers brilliant people to deliver a product whose elegance belies the intricate complexities at its core."[33] Sorkin won the Golden Globe for its screenplay.[34]

Stephen Colbert with Daniels at the Montclair Film Festival in 2018

He played David in The Divergent Series: Allegiant and was set to reprise the role in the planned The Divergent Series: Ascendant.[35] In 2014 he reprised his role as Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber To.

In 2017, Daniels's Hulu's miniseries The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. Daniels played John O'Neill, the chief of the New York FBI's Counter-terrorism Center. The ensemble included Bill Camp, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. Daniels won widespread critical acclaim and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Limited Series.

That same year, Daniels starred in Netflix's western miniseries Godless where he portrayed the villain Frank Griffin. He starred alongside Michelle Dockery, Merritt Wever, and Sam Waterston. Daniels won critical praise for his performance and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actor in a Miniseries, which he won.

Musical career

Daniels has focused on recording a number of songs that he has written throughout his life, apparently marking key moments. He has kept busy with frequent gigs and six full-length albums, Jeff Daniels Live and Unplugged, Jeff Daniels Live at The Purple Rose Theater, Grandfather's Hat, Keep It Right Here, Together Again, and Days Like These.[36] Proceeds from the album sales benefit The Purple Rose Theater.[36]

Daniels was featured on the cover of the April–May 2011 issue of Guitar Aficionado magazine[37] as well as the July–August 2011 issue of Making Music, where he discussed his experiences with music.

Personal life

In 1986, he moved back to his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan, and as of 2016, he still primarily resides there.[38] In 1979, Daniels married his college sweetheart, a fellow Michigan resident also from Chelsea, MI, Kathleen Rosemary Treado.[39] The couple have three children: Benjamin (born 1984), Lucas (born 1987), and Nellie (born 1990).[39]

Daniels has appeared as the TV spokesman for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, promoting Michigan's effectiveness in bringing in new companies, featured on CNBC. He was inducted into the Michigan Walk of Fame on May 25, 2006, in Lansing, Michigan, and delivered the winter commencement address at the University of Michigan on December 20, 2009, at which he was granted an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts.[40]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Ragtime	P. C. O'Donnell
1983	Terms of Endearment	Flap Horton
1985	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Tom Baxter/Gil Shepherd
1985	Marie	Eddie Sisk
1986	Something Wild	Charles Driggs
1986	Heartburn	Richard
1987	Radio Days	Biff Baxter
1988	The House on Carroll Street	Cochran
1988	Sweet Hearts Dance	Sam Manners
1989	Checking Out	Ray Macklin
1990	Arachnophobia	Ross Jennings
1990	Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Denton Webb
1991	Love Hurts	Paul Weaver
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Dr. Alex Tremor
1992	Timescape	Ben Wilson
1992	There Goes the Neighborhood	Willis Embry
1993	Rain Without Thunder	Jonathan Garson
1993	Gettysburg	Col. Joshua Chamberlain
1994	Speed	Harry Temple
1994	Dumb and Dumber	Harry Dunne
1995	Redwood Curtain	Lyman Fellers
1996	Fly Away Home	Thomas Alden
1996	2 Days in the Valley	Alvin Strayer
1996	101 Dalmatians	Roger Dearly
1997	Trial and Error	Charlie Tuttle
1998	Pleasantville	Bill Johnson
1999	My Favorite Martian	Tim O'Hara
1999	It's the Rage	Warren Harding
2000	Chasing Sleep	Ed Saxon
2000	Cheaters	Dr. Gerard Plecki
2001	Escanaba in da Moonlight	Reuben Soady	Also co-writer and director
2002	Super Sucker	Fred Barlow	Also co-writer and director
2002	Blood Work	Jasper "Buddy" Noone
2002	The Hours	Louis Waters
2003	Gods and Generals	Lt. Col. Joshua Chamberlain
2003	I Witness	James Rhodes
2004	Imaginary Heroes	Ben Travis
2004	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	The Blue Man
2005	The Squid and the Whale	Bernard Berkman
2005	Because of Winn-Dixie	The Preacher
2005	Good Night, and Good Luck	Sig Mickelson
2006	RV	Travis Gornicke
2006	Infamous	Alvin Dewey
2007	The Lookout	Lewis
2007	Mama's Boy	Mert Rosenbloom
2007	A Plumm Summer	Narrator
2008	Space Chimps	Zartog	Voice
2008	Traitor	Carter
2009	State of Play	Rep. George Fergus
2009	The Answer Man	Arlen Faber
2009	Away We Go	Jerry Farlander
2009	Paper Man	Richard Dunn
2010	Howl	Professor David Kirk
2012	Looper	Abe
2014	Dumb and Dumber To	Harry Dunne
2015	Steve Jobs	John Sculley
2015	The Martian	Teddy Sanders
2016	The Divergent Series: Allegiant	David
2018	The Catcher Was a Spy	Bill Donovan
2019	Guest Artist	Joseph Harris	Also writer and producer
2020	Adam	Mickey

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1980	Hawaii Five-O	Neal Forrester	Episode: "The Flight of the Jewels"
1980	A Rumor of War	Chaplain	2 episodes
1980	Breaking Away	College Kid	Episode: "Pilot"
1982	Catalina C-Lab	Rick Guthrie	Television film
1982	American Playhouse	Jed Jenkins	Episode: "The Fifth of July"
1983	An Invasion of Privacy	Francis Ryan	Television film
1988	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	Lt. Stephen Maryk	Television film
1988	Tanner 88	Park Ranger	Episode: "The Girlfriend Factor"
1989	No Place Like Home	Mike Cooper	Television film
1991	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Jeff Daniels/Color Me Badd"
1992	Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story	Tom Noonan	Television film
1993	Frasier	Doug	Voice Episode: "Here's Looking at You"
1995	Saturday Night Live	Himself (host)	Episode: "Jeff Daniels/Luscious Jackson"
2000	The Crossing	George Washington	Television film
2000	Cheaters	Dr. Gerard Plecki	Television film
2004	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	Television film
2008	Sweet Nothing in My Ear	Dan Miller	Television film
2012–2014	The Newsroom	Will McAvoy	25 episodes
2017	Godless	Frank Griffin	7 episodes
2018	The Looming Tower	John O’Neill	10 episodes
2018	The Emperor's Newest Clothes	The Emperor	Voice Television special
2020	Washington	Narrator	Miniseries, History
2020	Impractical Jokers	Himself	Episode: "Rock Bottom"
2020	The Comey Rule	James Comey	Upcoming miniseries[41]

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
1976	The Farm	Arthur	Circle Theatre, Off-Broadway
1977	My Life	Young Eddie
1978	Lulu	Schwarz / Mr. Hunidei
1978	Two from the Late Show	Nephew (Brontosaurus)
1978	Fifth of July	Jed Jenkins
1980–82			New Apollo Theatre, Off-Broadway
1982	Johnny Got His Gun	Joe Bonham	Circle Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway
1982	Three Sisters	Andrei Sergeevich Prozorov	New York City Center, Off-Broadway
1984	The Golden Age	Tom	Jack Lawrence Theatre, Broadway
1985	Lemon Sky	Alan	McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Off-Broadway
1993	Redwood Curtain	Lyman	Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2007	Blackbird	Ray	New York City Center, Off-Broadway
2009–10	God of Carnage	Alan / Michael	Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway
2016	Blackbird	Ray	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2018–19	To Kill a Mockingbird	Atticus Finch	Shubert Theatre, Broadway

Purple Rose Theatre Company

Purple Rose Theatre

The Purple Rose Theatre Company (or PRTC) was founded by Daniels in 1991. Originally known as the Garage Theatre, The Rose takes its name from Woody Allen's 1985 film The Purple Rose of Cairo, which starred Daniels and Mia Farrow. The theatre provides resources for training actors, playwrights, and other theatre artists residing in the Midwest and develops new plays based on life in the Great Lakes Basin.[19] The main performance space and administrative offices occupy a building in Chelsea, Michigan, once owned by Daniels' grandfather. The theatre produces four shows a year on a 3/4 thrust stage in a 168-seat house. The PRTC is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and operates under a Small Professional Theatre (SPT) Agreement with the Actors' Equity Association (AEA).[42]

Apprentice program

The Purple Rose offers a year-long apprenticeship program for young artists entering a career in theatre. Apprentices are paid a modest stipend and work as many as 80 hours per week gaining experience in lighting, sound, stage management, design, set construction, and administrative/box office work. The seven apprentices also maintain and clean the theatre's facilities. The program was inspired by Daniels' experience as an apprentice with the Circle Repertory Company in New York City.

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Jeff Daniels

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
2009	Tony Awards	Best Actor in a Play	God of Carnage	Nominated	[43]
2016			Blackbird	Nominated	[44]
2018			To Kill a Mockingbird	Nominated	[45]
2013	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series	The Newsroom	Won	[46]
2014				Nominated
2015				Nominated
2018		Outstanding Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	The Looming Tower	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	Godless	Won
1985	Golden Globe Awards	Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical	The Purple Rose of Cairo	Nominated	[47]
1986			Something Wild	Nominated
2005			The Squid and the Whale	Nominated
2012		Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama	The Newsroom	Nominated

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External links

• Official website
• Jeff Daniels on IMDb
• Jeff Daniels at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jeff Daniels at the Internet Off-Broadway Database