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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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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
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Frasier
CBS News Sunday Morning
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Hawaii Five-O
MTV Video Music Awards
The Colbert Report
HBO First Look
Impractical Jokers
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
The Catcher Was a Spy
A Rumor of War
Ragtime
The Hours
Tanner '88
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
Godless
Looper
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Allegiant
Pleasantville
RV
Speed
Traitor
Terms of Endearment
The Martian
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Steve Jobs
Bye Bye Barry
A Man in Full
Dumb and Dumber
Dumb and Dumber To
My Favorite Martian
The Butcher's Wife
2 Days in the Valley
101 Dalmatians
Fifth of July
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
The Looming Tower
American Rust
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Fly Away Home
Cheaters
The Comey Rule
Gettysburg
There Goes the Neighborhood
Arachnophobia
The Newsroom
Saturday Night Live
Production Credits
The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer
American Rust
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