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Maggie Gyllenhaal  Biography Maggie Gyllenhaal is an award-winning American film actress born into a Hollywood family. Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the independent film, Crazy Heart, in 2009. Actress. Born Maggie Ruth Gyllenhaal on November 16, 1977, in New York City. Gyllenhaal's parents were both in the entertainment industry; her mother, Naomi Finer, was an Oscar-nominated television producer. Her father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, was an Emmy-nominated film director. Gyllenhaal's brother, Jake, was also a film actor. When Maggie Gyllenhaal was still an infant, her family moved to Los Angeles, California. Gyllenhaal and her brother often performed plays together at home for the family, but Maggie was not particularly attracted to acting as a child. It wasn't until she in her early teens that she began taking drama classes at the prestigious Harvard-Wakeland prep academy in L.A, where she attended school. She landed her big screen debut in 1992, i...