Jeff Daniels
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards).
138 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 138
Family Guy
1999
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
Frasier
1993
The Colbert Report
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Hawaii Five-O
1968
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Shrinking
2023
The Newsroom
2012
The Martian
2015
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Impractical Jokers
2011
HBO First Look
1992
Speed
1994
Godless
2017
Dumb and Dumber
1994
101 Dalmatians
1996
The American Revolution
2025
A Man in Full
2024
Looper
2012
Allegiant
2016
Dumb and Dumber To
2014
American Rust
2021
The Looming Tower
2018
The Comey Rule
2020
RV
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Steve Jobs
2015
Pleasantville
1998
State of Play
2009
Gettysburg
1993
Hemingway
2021
The Hours
2002
2 Days in the Valley
1996
The American Buffalo
2023
Washington
2020
Blood Work
2002
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
Heartburn
1986
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020
ARES: live
2015
Terms of Endearment
1983
A Rumor of War
1980
Fly Away Home
1996
Gods and Generals
2003
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024
The Squid and the Whale
2005
My Favorite Martian
1999
Traitor
2008
The Catcher Was a Spy
2018
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
1998
Something Wild
1986
Howl
2010
Ragtime
1981
The Lookout
2007
Arachnophobia
1990
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
2003
Because of Winn-Dixie
2005
Paper Man
2009
Space Chimps
2008
Radio Days
1987
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Adam
2020
Away We Go
2009
Mama's Boy
2007
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
2021
The Butcher's Wife
1991
The House on Carroll Street
1988
Infamous
2006
Trying Times
1987
The Crossing
2000
Marie: A True Story
1985
Broadway: The Next Generation
—
Cheaters
2000
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013
Imaginary Heroes
2004
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992
The Brink of War
2026
An Invasion of Privacy
1983
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017
Trial and Error
1997
Timescape
1992
All the Rage
1999
Chasing Sleep
2001
Checking Out
1988
Sweet Hearts Dance
1988
2034
—
The Answer Man
2009
I Witness
2003
"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
2015
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
2004
The Saint of Second Chances
2023
Bye Bye Barry
2023
The Goodbye Girl
2004
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1988
Love Hurts
1990
No Place Like Home
1989
Rain Without Thunder
1993
Breakfast with the Arts
1991
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
2008
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025
Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001
A Plumm Summer
2008
Robin Williams: A Family Affair
2006
Redwood Curtain
1995
Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party
1997
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018
RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors
2006
The Russian Five
2018
Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy
2006
Super Sucker
2002
Still Dumb After All These Years
2006
Dumb and Dumber - Making Of
2004
Fifth of July
1982
Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
—
Of Miracles and Men
2015
Remembering Ragtime
2004
Guest Artist
2019
America's Classic Ballparks
1991
Gerald R. Ford: A Test of Character
—