Stephen Gyllenhaal
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Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (pronounced "JILL-en-hall") (born October 4, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film and television director and member of the Gyllenhaal family.
He is the second husband of screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, father of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal, and brother of Anders Gyllenhaal [1], managing editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune since 2002.
On October 3, 2006, just a day before his own birthday, Stephen became a grandfather for the first time when Maggie and her fiancé, actor Peter Sarsgaard, became parents of Ramona Sarsgaard, who was born in New York City.
The family are descendants of the noble Gyllenhaal family, which was ennobled in 1652 when Queen Christina of Sweden conferred on cavalry officer Nils Gunnesson Haal a title, crest, and the name Gyllenhaal [2] (loosely translated as "golden-hard"). Gyllenhaal's Swedish ancestry is distant, as his last Swedish ancestor was his great-grandfather, Anders Leonard Gyllenhaal.[3]
He grew up in rural Pennsylvania in a close-knit Swedenborgian family and graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1972 with a degree in English. His mentor at Trinity was the poet Hugh Odgen.
As well as being a director of fine feature films, Stephen is also a poet of emerging reputation, whose poetry has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood [4], was published in June, 2006 by Cantara Christopher's New York-based literary small press, Cantarabooks [5].
[edit] Filmography
- (1979) Exit 10
- (1985) Certain Fury
- (1991) Paris Trout
- (1992) Waterland
- (1993) A Dangerous Woman
- (1995) Losing Isaiah
- (1998) Homegrown
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.pulitzer.org/CurrentBoard/gyllenhaalbio.html
- ^ http://www.gyllenhaal.org
- ^ http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arc150&id=I098841
- ^ http://www.authorsbookshop.com/gyllenhaalclaptrap/
- ^ http://www.cantarabooks.com
