Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor,
musician, and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage
productions, and television, for which he has won two Primetime Emmy
Awards and received several Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and
Tony Award nominations. He made his film debut in Ragtime (1981), and
amassed such additional credits as Terms of Endearment (1983),
Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber
(1994), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly
Away Home (1996), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002), Gods and
Generals (2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good
Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), The Lookout (2007), Looper (2012), Steve
Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred
as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom, for
which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor
in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild
Award nominations. He won a second Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for
his supporting performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017)
and an additional nomination that year for his leading performance as
John P. O'Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018).
Daniels has also received a number of award nominations for his work
on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his
roles in the plays God of Carnage, Blackbird and To Kill a
Mockingbird. He is the founder and current executive director of the
Chelsea, Michiganâ€"based Purple Rose Theatre Company.Daniels was born
in Athens, Georgia, to Marjorie J. (née Ferguson) and Robert Lee
"Bob" Daniels (1929â€"2012). He spent the first six weeks of his life
in Georgia, where his father was then teaching, and grew up in
Chelsea, Michigan. His father owned the Chelsea Lumber Company and was
a one-time mayor of Chelsea.
musician, and playwright whose career includes roles in films, stage
productions, and television, for which he has won two Primetime Emmy
Awards and received several Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and
Tony Award nominations. He made his film debut in Ragtime (1981), and
amassed such additional credits as Terms of Endearment (1983),
Arachnophobia (1990), Gettysburg (1993), Speed (1994), Dumb and Dumber
(1994), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), 101 Dalmatians (1996), Fly
Away Home (1996), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002), Gods and
Generals (2003), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good
Luck (2005), Infamous (2006), The Lookout (2007), Looper (2012), Steve
Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred
as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom, for
which he won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor
in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild
Award nominations. He won a second Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for
his supporting performance in the Netflix miniseries Godless (2017)
and an additional nomination that year for his leading performance as
John P. O'Neill in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower (2018).
Daniels has also received a number of award nominations for his work
on stage, including Tony Award nominations for Best Actor for his
roles in the plays God of Carnage, Blackbird and To Kill a
Mockingbird. He is the founder and current executive director of the
Chelsea, Michiganâ€"based Purple Rose Theatre Company.Daniels was born
in Athens, Georgia, to Marjorie J. (née Ferguson) and Robert Lee
"Bob" Daniels (1929â€"2012). He spent the first six weeks of his life
in Georgia, where his father was then teaching, and grew up in
Chelsea, Michigan. His father owned the Chelsea Lumber Company and was
a one-time mayor of Chelsea.
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