
Born Feb 19, 1955 (age 71) · Athens, Georgia, USA
Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor for the Broadway play God of Carnage (2009), along with his other three cast-mates. He has had a thriving film career, from his debut in 1981 in Ragtime, through State of Play in 2009. For his film work, he has received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including as Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards).

as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders

as Abe

as David

as Harry

as Harry Dunne

as John Sculley

as Roger
as Harry Dunne
as George Fergus
as Mr. Johnson
as Louis Waters
as Travis Gornicke
as Ross Jennings
as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
as Sig Mickelson
as Bernard Berkman
as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
as Flap Horton
as Carter
as Lewis
as Biff Baxter
as Jerry Farlander
as Thomas Alden
as Zartog (voice)
as Charles Driggs
as Richard Dunn
as Tim O'Hara
as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
as Bill Donovan
as Alvin Strayer
as Preacher
as Alvin Dewey
as Richard
as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
as Professor David Kirk
as P.C. O'Donnell
as Dr. Alex Tremor
as Arlen Faber
as Ben Travis
as Denton Webb
as Blue Man
as Ed Saxon
as Ben Wilson
as Charles Tuttle
as Mert Rosenbloom
as Cochran
as Mickey
as Dr. Gerard Plecki