Directed credits
2
Emerging
Beginning to build directing work.
Director
Jeff Daniels
Acting
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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 6
TMDB ID: 8447
IMDb ID: nm0001099
Known for: Acting
Born: February 19, 1955
Age: 70
Place of birth: Athens, Georgia, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1951 - 2025
Years active: 75
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q53680
Also known as
제프 다니엘스 • 杰夫·丹尼尔斯 • 黛安·蓮恩 • Джефф Деніелс
Frequent jobs
Director (2)Creator (2)Executive Producer (1)Producer (1)
Biography
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).
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Jeff Daniels.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Jeff Daniels.
8.1
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
as Self
2024 Movie
7.7
The Martian
as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
2015 Movie
7.4
The Purple Rose of Cairo
as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
1985 Movie
7.3
The Hours
as Louis Waters
2002 Movie
7.3
Pleasantville
as Mr. Johnson
1998 Movie
7.1
Speed
as Harry
1994 Movie
7.1
Terms of Endearment
as Flap Horton
1983 Movie
7.1
Good Night, and Good Luck.
as Sig Mickelson
2005 Movie
7.0
Ragtime
as P.C. O'Donnell
1981 Movie
7.0
Radio Days
as Biff Baxter
1987 Movie
7.0
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
as Blue Man
2004 Movie
6.9
The Squid and the Whale
as Bernard Berkman
2005 Movie
Series
Top Rated Series
Highest rated series linked with Jeff Daniels.
8.1
The Newsroom
as Will McAvoy • 25 eps
2012 Series
7.9
Impractical Jokers
as Self • 1 eps
2011 Series
7.8
Shrinking
2023 Series
7.7
Godless
as Frank Griffin • 7 eps
2017 Series
7.7
Frasier
as Doug (voice) • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.4
Family Guy
as Jeff Daniels (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
7.3
The Looming Tower
as John O'Neill • 10 eps
2018 Series
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.2
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
1993 Series
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Neal Forrester • 1 eps
1968 Series
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host • 2 eps
1975 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
as Self • 2 eps
2005 Series
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Jeff Daniels.
7.7
The Martian
as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
2015 Movie
6.9
Looper
as Abe
2012 Movie
7.1
Speed
as Harry
1994 Movie
6.6
Dumb and Dumber
as Harry Dunne
1994 Movie
5.9
RV
as Travis Gornicke
2006 Movie
5.9
101 Dalmatians
as Roger
1996 Movie
6.1
Allegiant
as David
2016 Movie
4.9
Space Chimps
as Zartog (voice)
2008 Movie
5.6
Dumb and Dumber To
as Harry Dunne
2014 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Jeff Daniels.
7.4
Family Guy
as Jeff Daniels (voice) • 1 eps
1999 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 3 eps
2014 Series
6.4
The Daily Show
as Self • 2 eps
1996 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 3 eps
2015 Series
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host • 2 eps
1975 Series
7.7
Frasier
as Doug (voice) • 1 eps
1993 Series
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
as Self • 1 eps
2007 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
6.7
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self • 2 eps
2005 Series
4.3
The View
as Self • 1 eps
1997 Series
7.8
Shrinking
2023 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
as Self • 2 eps
2005 Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Jeff Daniels.
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Jeff Daniels.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Jeff Daniels.
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
as Self
2025 Movie
8.1
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
as Self
2024 Movie
7.9
Bye Bye Barry
as Self
2023 Movie
6.9
The Saint of Second Chances
as Narrator (voice)
2023 Movie
6.8
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2021 Movie
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021 Movie
6.4
Adam
as Mickey
2020 Movie
4.7
Guest Artist
as Joseph Harris
2019 Movie
7.0
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
as The Emperor
2018 Movie
6.2
The Catcher Was a Spy
as Bill Donovan
2018 Movie
7.4
The Russian Five
as self
2018 Movie
10.0
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017 Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Jeff Daniels.
5.6
The American Revolution
as Thomas Jefferson (voice) • 4 eps
2025 Series
6.3
A Man in Full
as Charlie Croker • 6 eps
2024 Series
7.1
The American Buffalo
as (voice) • 2 eps
2023 Series
7.8
Shrinking
2023 Series
6.9
American Rust
as Det. Del Harris • 19 eps
2021 Series
7.5
Hemingway
as Ernest Hemingway (voice) • 3 eps
2021 Series
6.9
The Comey Rule
as James Comey • 2 eps
2020 Series
7.5
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
as Himself • 1 eps
2020 Series
7.1
Washington
as Self - Narrator • 3 eps
2020 Series
6.4
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
7.3
The Looming Tower
as John O'Neill • 10 eps
2018 Series
7.7
Godless
as Frank Griffin • 7 eps
2017 Series