As of 2023, actor Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't have any kids. However, he is a very proud uncle of his nieces, Ramona and Gloria. His bond with them is so strong that it inspired him to write a children's book, The Secret Society of Aunts and Uncles.
No, as of March 2024, Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't have a wife. However, he's made it clear in the recent past that marriage is in the cards. “All I want is to be a good husband and a father… that really is what I want,” he said during an interview on The Howard Stern Show in the fall of 2021.
After ending a seven-year-long marriage with Ryan Phillippe in 2006, Reese Witherspoon found solace in Jake Gyllenhaal and the two began dating in 2007 after meeting on the sets of Rendition (2007). Unfortunately, the relationship wasn't meant to last as they broke up in 2009.
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/ JIL-ən-hawl, Swedish: [ˈjʏ̂lːɛnˌhɑːl]; born December 19, 1980) is an American actor. Born into the Gyllenhaal family, he is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Naomi and Stephen finalized their divorce in 2009 after more than 30 years of marriage. Speaking with PEOPLE in July 2015, Jake said his parents splitting up had a profound impact on him.
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Who is Jake Gyllenhaal with now?
Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeanne Cadieu's joint appearances
The pair made their red carpet debut in 2021, posing together at the premiere of The Lost Daughter, directed by Gyllenhaal's sister Maggie. They stepped out again for the 2022 premiere of Ambulance and walked the Cannes red carpet together that year.
His father's ancestry is Swedish, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, and distant Welsh and French. His ancestor, cavalry Lieutenant Nils Gunnarsson Haal, was enobled, and changed his surname to Gyllenhaal.
In 2002, Gyllenhaal began a relationship with actor Peter Sarsgaard. The couple became engaged in April 2006, and married on May 2, 2009, in a small chapel in Brindisi, Italy. They have two daughters, born October 2006 and April 2012.
Introduced through Jake's sister, the two began dating in 2002. During their two-year romance, the couple shared a home in the Hollywood Hills and bought a German Shepard. They split in December 2004.
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Indeed, sources say that her divorce and her kids were the two driving factors in the split. "She felt pressured to wed again but she wasn't ready," an insider says. "She couldn't give Jake enough and she got cold feet. Jake wanted all of her."
BEFORE he started dating Jeanne Cadieu, Jake Gyllenhaal was romantically linked to Taylor Swift and Rachel McAdams. Previously, the Oscar nominee was also in relationships with Kirsten Dunst and Reese Witherspoon.
Witherspoon — who first began romancing Jake while shooting Rendition — "broke his heart" when she ended their three-year courtship in December 2009. "No one cheated," a source told Us. "There was no drama."
Jake Gyllenhaal was actually 19 years old, while playing a 16 year old high school student. Maggie Gyllenhaal was 23 playing his older sister. Though the film doesn't reveal her age, the shooting script specifies that Elizabeth Darko is supposed to be 19 years old.
Her parents, who married in 1977, filed for divorce in October 2008. Her father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, who was raised as a Swedenborgian, is of Swedish, French, German, Swiss, Welsh and English descent, and is a descendant of the Swedish noble Gyllenhaal family.
How much did Jake Gyllenhaal get paid for Road House?
Estimates suggest this could be anywhere between $10 million and $15 million. On top of that, some contracts include backend deals, which grant actors a percentage of the film's profits. Considering “Road House” was an Amazon Prime Video release, details on such a deal, if it exists, are likely shrouded in secrecy.
In a 2022 interview with Esquire, Jake revealed that while he and his sister are now close, "I can't say that about every step of our relationship." According to Esquire, Jake and Maggie fought as kids and competed as young actors.
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal are, in fact, the real thing. And after more than 14 years of marriage, the "Memory" actor chalks up his long-lasting relationship with the actress to one basic rule. "Tell the truth," Peter told E! News' Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview.
Hershel was born in the fall of 2012, several months after the end of the war against the Saviors. Maggie had named her son after his late grandfather, Hershel and kept his father's surname, Rhee. In early 2014, while everyone is at Kenneth's funeral, a saddened Maggie holds Hershel and watches from the balcony.
“I think that's been passed onto me.” Today, Gyllenhaal said he eats mostly, but not exclusively, plant-based foods. The movement toward a plant-based diet was gradual, stemming from a combination of watching documentaries and simply tracking how he felt based on what he ate.
