MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL (Allison Jimeno) received rave reviews out of the 2002 Sundance competition for her starring role opposite James Spader in Lion’s Gate’s “Secretary,” she went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress, a Chicago Film Critics’ Award for Most Promising Performer, a Boston Film Critics’ Award for Best Actress, a National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance and an IFP/ Gotham Breakthrough Performance Award.
Gyllenhaal was also nominated for a 2006 Independent Spirit Award for her role in Don Roos’ “Happy Endings,” opposite Lisa Kudrow and Tom Arnold. In August 2006, Maggie will be seen in Fox Searchlight’s romantic comedy “Trust the Man” with Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup and David Duchovny. Then in November, she stars in Marc Forster’s “Stranger Than Fiction,” with Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah and Emma Thompson. Later this year, the 2006 Sundance hit “Sherrybaby” will hit theaters. Gyllenhaal plays a female convict struggling to overcome her drug addiction and regain custody of her daughter.
In the past few years, she appeared tin John Sayles’ “Casa De Los Babys” with Daryl Hannah and Lily Taylor and Mike Newell’s “Mona Lisa Smile.”
Also accomplished on stage, in 2004, Maggie starred in Tony Kushner’s play “Homebody/Kabul,” which ran in both Los Angeles and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She also starred as Alice in Patrick Mauber’s award-winning “Closer” at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles for director Robert Egan, and previously at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
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