Jake Gyllenhaal Career Highlights and Current Worth

His Birthday:

December 19, 1980

Place of Birth:

Los Angeles, CA

Jake’s Famous Parents Are:

His mother is producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and his father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal.

Net Worth:

American actor Jake Gyllenhaal has a net worth of $65 million dollars according to Wealthy Genius.

Who is Jake Gyllenhaal’s wife?

Jake Gyllenhaal Is ‘Getting Serious’ With French Model Jeanne Cadieu. Jake Gyllenhaal who is not that private has had his fair share of very public romances (Kirsten Dunst, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift, to name a few), so it makes sense he’d want to keep his current love life as far out of the spotlight as possible.

What car does Jake Gyllenhaal drive?

Jake Gyllenhaal drives in the second half of the Nightcrawler film is a 2014 Dodge Challenger SRT8. We do not know what his car is in real life.

How much did Jake Gyllenhaal make for Spiderman?

Andrew Garfield who was reportedly paid $4 million for the film, wanted a salary hike for the sequel. But his negotiation tactics would blow up in his face after Sony fired him and reached out to Jake Gyllenhaal to replace him for the movie. Jake Gyllenhaal seems to have made about $5 million for the role.

Interesting Family Fact:

Jake Gyllenhaal and his sister Maggie played siblings in writer/director Richard Kelly’s cult fav, Donnie Darko.

How to Pronounce His Last Name:

It’s pronounced Jill-en-hall and his full name is Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal.

His Big Screen Debut:

Came in 1991 playing Billy Crystal’s son in City Slickers.

Breakthrough Role:

Probably October Sky although an argument could be made that it was really Donnie Darko.

Notable Movie Credits:

• City Slickers (1991)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
• Homegrown (1998)
• October Sky (1999)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• Bubble Boy (2001)
• Lovely & Amazing (2001)
• The Good Girl (2002)
• Highway (2002)
• Moonlight Mile (2002)
• Proof (2005)
• Jarhead (2005)
• Brokeback Mountain (2005)
• Zodiac (2006)
• Rendition (2007)
• Nailed (2009)
• Brothers (2009)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
• Love and Other Drugs (2010)
• Source Code (2011)
• End of Watch (2012)