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Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The Daily Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Family Guy
The Graham Norton Show
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Frasier
CBS News Sunday Morning
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hawaii Five-O
The Colbert Report
MTV Video Music Awards
HBO First Look
Impractical Jokers
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
The Catcher Was a Spy
A Rumor of War
Ragtime
The Hours
Tanner '88
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
Godless
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Looper
Allegiant
Traitor
RV
Speed
Terms of Endearment
The Martian
Steve Jobs
Bye Bye Barry
The Butcher's Wife
Dumb and Dumber To
101 Dalmatians
Dumb and Dumber
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Fifth of July
2 Days in the Valley
My Favorite Martian
Fly Away Home
A Man in Full
Gettysburg
There Goes the Neighborhood
The Newsroom
The Comey Rule
Cheaters
American Rust
The Looming Tower
Arachnophobia
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American Rust
The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer
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