Jeff Daniels
Jeff DanielsBorn in Athens, Ga., on Feb. 19, 1955, and raised in Chelsea, Mich., Jeff Daniels has built a career as a low-key leading man, playing everything from villains to romantic heroes and lovable idiots.

After finding some success in film and on stage, Daniels scored his breakout role as Debra Winger's philandering husband in Terms of Endearment (1983). He followed this success with a memorable role as a silver-screen hero who steps off the screen to romance Mia Farrow's lonely housewife in Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo. In 1991, Daniels founded the Purple Rose Theatre Co. in Michigan to establish a creative home for Midwestern actors.

Daniels continues to act and direct in films and theater. Other notable movies include Arachnophobia, Gettysburg, Dumb & Dumber, Fly Away Home, Pleasantville and Blood Work.

Featured Movies
  • The Squid and the WhaleThe Squid and the Whale

    Jeff Daniels makes for a haunting Brooklyn professor who's well past his prime, and Laura Linney is his writer wife on the brink of stardom in Noah Baumbach's honest look at the disintegration of a marriage. With their lives headed in distinctly opposite directions, the two can't help but be... Read More

  • Fly Away HomeFly Away Home

    When 13-year-old Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) adopts a flock of orphaned Canada geese, she sets out to teach them survival skills. Before long, Amy and her inventor dad (Jeff Daniels) take to the skies in a homemade ultralight aircraft to help the gaggle migrate 500 miles. Inspired by a true story, this... Read More

  • Gods and GeneralsGods and Generals

    Director-producer Ron Maxwell mines America's history in this epic movie chronicling the Civil War's beginnings in 1861 to the tragic Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863 and the heroes who defended their honor on both fronts. Robert Duvall is Gen. Robert E. Lee, who leads the Confederates; Jeff... Read More

  • The CrossingThe Crossing

    Jeff Daniels stars in this stirring dramatization of George Washington's surprise attack on the British Army's German mercenaries at Trenton during the American Revolution, based on the book by Howard Fast. Read More

  • The Answer ManThe Answer Man

    Reclusive author Arlen Faber (Jeff Daniels) -- who's intentionally been out of the spotlight since he penned an inspirational self-help book two decades ago -- finds himself in need of spiritual healing in this quirky indie romance. Though everyone still looks to Arlen for answers, he's an emotional... Read More

All Jeff Daniels Movies
Looper (2012)
NR
Howl (2010)
R
The Answer Man (2009)
Arlen Faber
R
Paper Man (2009)
R
State of Play (2009)  Top 100
PG-13
Away We Go (2009)
R
America's Classic Ballparks (2009)
NR
Traitor (2008)
PG-13
Space Chimps (2008)
G
The Lookout (2007)
R
Mama's Boy (2007)
PG-13
A Plumm Summer (2007)
PG
Infamous (2006)
R
RV (2006)
Runaway Vacation
PG
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
PG
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
R
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
PG
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
NR
Imaginary Heroes (2004)
R
The Goodbye Girl (2004)
NR
I Witness (2003)
R
Gods and Generals (2003)
PG-13
Blood Work (2002)
R
Super Sucker (2002)
R
Escanaba in da Moonlight (2000)
PG-13
Chasing Sleep (2000)
Rem
R
The Crossing (2000)
NR
Cheaters (2000)
R
My Favorite Martian: The Movie (1999)
PG
It's the Rage (1999)
All the Rage
R
Pleasantville (1998)
Color of Heart
PG-13
Trial & Error (1997)
PG-13
Fly Away Home (1996)
PG
101 Dalmatians (1996)
G
2 Days in the Valley (1996)
R
Dumb and Dumber: Unrated (1994)
UR
Speed (1994)
(Bonus materials available separately)
R
Gettysburg (1993)
PG
Rain Without Thunder (1992)
PG-13
There Goes The Neighborhood (1992)
PG-13
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story (1992)
R
Grand Tour: Disaster in Time (1992)
PG-13
The Butcher's Wife (1991)
PG-13
Arachnophobia (1990)
PG-13
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)
PG-13
Homeless (1989)
No Place Like Home
NR
Checking Out (1989)
R
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
PG
Sweet Hearts Dance (1988)
R
Radio Days (1987)
PG
Heartburn (1986)
R
Something Wild (1986)
R
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
PG
Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG
Fifth of July (1982)
NR

 
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