Jake Gyllenhaal is a reputed American actor and producer known for his role Mysterio in the movie Spider-Man: Far from Home and Rusty Sabich in the TV mini-series Presumed Innocent. Jake Gyllenhaal is not married to date but has been involved in several relationships.
Gyllenhaal was born in 1980 to film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner. He is the young brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Due to family members being involved in the film industry, Jake started acting at an early age, debuting in City Slickers (1991).
Then, he starred in his father’s movies, including A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1998). However, he got a breakthrough in the biographical drama October Sky (1999) and the sci-fi psychological thriller Donnie Darko (2001).
Jake Gyllenhaal Wiki & Career
When Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed Jack Twist in Ang Lee’s 2005 romantic drama Brokeback Mountain, he won a BAFTA Award and received a nomination for an Academy Award.
His acting career proceeded with movies like Zodiac (2007), Love & Other Drugs (2010), and Source Code (2011).
After some movies, Gyllenhaal played a manipulative journalist in the 2014 movie Nightcrawler and a disturbed writer in Nocturnal Animals in 2016, for which he earned nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
His highest-grossing movie is Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), in which he played the role of Quentin Beck or Mysterio.
Jake Gyllenhaal has also appeared in the TV thriller show Presumed Innocent in 2024, which aired its first episode in June 12 and is currently running through July.
Jake Gyllenhaal Girlfriends & Relationships
Jake Gyllenhaal is unmarried at 43 but has had several romantic relationships with popular personalities from the past to date.
He started dating Kirsten Dunst in 2002 after his sister Maggie shared a screen in the movie Mona Lisa Smile and introduced them.
Jake is a stay-at-home boy, and Kirstin is an outgoing girl, so their personalities don’t match, and they broke up in 2004, becoming good friends.
Then, Jake met Rendition co-star Reese Witherspoon in 2007, and they were in a relationship for two years until 2009. During their relationship, Jake wanted to marry Reese, but she was not ready for that within a short period after getting divorced from Ryan Phillippe.
After that, Jake Gyllenhaal briefly dated singer-songwriter Taylor Swift for about three months, from October 2010 to early 2011. When they broke up, Taylor wrote and sang the song “All Too Well” about Jake.
Soon, Jake got in touch with a model, Alyssa Miller, from July to December 2013. Jake Gyllenhaal was also rumored to have dated Rachel McAdams during a drama Southpaw in 2015.
The actor and actress were spotted attending dinner and boxing matches together but never confirmed their relationship.
Currently, Jake Gyllenhaal has been dating French model Jeanne Cadieu since late 2018. Jeanne is 28 years old and has worked with designers including Saint Laurent, Stella McCartney, Tom Ford, Schiaparelli, and Valentino in fashion design.
She is also pursuing her studies at Columbia University in Manhattan, where Jake also studied.
Cadieu has been spotted supporting Jake Gyllenhaal at Red Carpet and stepping out with his parents at the New York premiere of Road House.
These are not the end of Gyllenhaal’s girlfriend list; he has been involved in relationships in the past with other high-profile women, including actresses Natalie Portman, Minka Kelly, and Anna Kendrick.
The list also contains Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model Alyssa Miller and Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis.