Jeff Daniels
Biography
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).
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- Family Guy (1999) as Jeff Daniels (voice)
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Daily Show (1996) as Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Casting Reject
- The Kelly Clarkson Show (2019) as Self
- The Graham Norton Show (2007) as Self
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Host
- Saturday Night Live (1975) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- Late Show with David Letterman (1993) as Self - Guest
- Frasier (1993) as Doug (voice)
- Hawaii Five-O (1968) as Neal Forrester
- The View (1997) as Self
- The Colbert Report (2005) as Self
- The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005) as Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
- Shrinking (2023)
- Shrinking (2023) as Randy
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993) as Self - Guest
- Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014) as Self
- MTV Video Music Awards (1984) as Self - Presenter
- CBS News Sunday Morning (1979) as Self