This angelic young man grew up to become one of the most famous faces in Hollywood.
Born in Los Angeles to a prominent film producer father and screenwriter mother, he made his film debut at just 10 years old alongside film icon Billy Crystal.
After a series of small roles alongside his actress sister, who would star in a Batman film, he landed his breakthrough role as a psychologically tormented teenager in a 2001 cult classic.
A BAFTA award and an Oscar nomination would follow for his performance in an acclaimed Western drama, which many believe robbed him of the Best Picture trophy.
In his latest role, he underwent a shocking body transformation to play a tough fighter alongside a sports star.
So can you guess who it is?
This angelic young man grew up to become one of the most famous faces in Hollywood. Can you guess who he is?
It’s Jake Gyllenhaal! The Brokeback Mountain star, now 43, is among the most in-demand actors in Hollywood.
The star grew up in show business with her Swedish director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter mother Naomi Foner.
Her older sister is Maggie Gyllenhaal, 46, who has starred in films such as The Dark Knight and Crazy Heart. She also co-starred with her younger brother in 2001’s Donnie Darko, which earned her critical acclaim.
Jake’s godmother is Halloween icon Jamie Lee Curtis and Paul Newman regularly visited her family home for dinner.
As a child, Jake wore powerful prescription glasses and intensive corrective lenses due to his 20/1250 vision. The star was born with a lazy eye that resolved naturally, but today he is classified as legally blind.
He recently told THR: ‘I like to think that’s an advantage. I have never known anything else. When I can’t see in the morning, before I put on my glasses, it’s a place where I can be with myself.’
In the 2015 boxing film Southpaw, he removed his contacts for a scene in which his character Billy “The Great” Hope was told by police that his wife had died, which he says forced him to “listen more.” sincerely”.
He made his acting debut as Billy Crystal’s son in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. He also appeared in 1993’s A Dangerous Woman (alongside his sister Maggie) and the 1998 comedy Homegrown.
It’s Jake Gyllenhaal! The Brokeback Mountain star, now 43, is among the most in-demand actors in Hollywood
The star grew up in show business with her Swedish director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter mother Naomi Foner. Her older sister is Maggie Gyllenhaal, 46, who has starred in films including The Dark Knight and Crazy Heart (pictured together in 2003).
As a child, Jake wore powerful prescription glasses and intensive corrective lenses due to his 20/1250 vision. The star was born with a lazy eye that resolved naturally, but today he is listed as legally blind.
He made his acting debut as Billy Crystal’s son in the 1991 comedy City Slickers.
The star’s godmother is Halloween star Jamie Lee Curtis (pictured in 2023)
Jake starred in the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko (pictured with Drew Barrymore)
After narrowly missing out on the roles of Spider-Man and Batman, his most legendary role came in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee. In the film, Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger played American cowboys-turned-lovers Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar.
Gyllenhaal’s first leading role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston’s 1999 adaptation of Homer Hickam’s autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he played a young man from West Virginia struggling to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a miner. of coal.
The film was received positively and grossed $32 million.
After narrowly missing out on the roles of Spider-Man and Batman, his most legendary role came in 2005’s Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee.
In the film, Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger played American cowboys-turned-lovers Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar.
The film earned widespread critical acclaim and earned the actor the Oscars for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor.
Gyllenhaal stars alongside Conor McGregor as Knox in Amazon remake Road House
Surprisingly, the film lost the Best Picture Oscar to Crash, a decision that has since been marked as one of the biggest upsets in the awards show’s history.
He recently played Elwood Dalton in Amazon’s remake of the 1989 film, Road House, and revealed a muscular body transformation that led him to diet at five percent body fat.
MMA fighter Conor McGregor played Knox in the film, and the streamer revealed that the film was his “most-watched produced film debut globally”, drawing 50 million viewers over the first two weekends of the film’s broadcast. movie.