Stephen Gyllenhaal

Biography

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (/ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born October 4, 1949; Cleveland) is an American film director and poet. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Gyllenhaal directed the film version of the Pete Dexter novel Paris Trout, which was nominated for five Emmy Awards and won him a DGA Award. In 1990, Gyllenhaal directed Family of Spies, which was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy. In 1992, he directed the feature film Waterland, starring Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke. Since 1993, he has focused primarily on directing in television, including an episode of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He directed his son, Jake, then 14 years old, in an episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street that aired in 1994. Gyllenhaal directed several episodes of the CBS series Numb3rs, The Mentalist, Hawthorne, Army Wives, Rectify, and Blue Bloods. In 2011, Gyllenhaal directed Girl Fight which starred Anne Heche and earned Gyllenhaal a DGA Nomination for outstanding directorial achievement in movies for television. He is also a poet, who has been published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner and Nimrod. His first collection of poetry, Claptrap: Notes fro…

Directed

1. The Mentalist (2008) — Director
2. Twin Peaks (1990) — Director
3. Billions (2016) — Director
4. Blue Bloods (2010) — Director
5. The Shield (2002) — Director
6. Bosch (2015) — Director
7. Numb3rs (2005) — Director
8. Rectify (2013) — Director
9. Everwood (2002) — Director
10. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) — Director
11. Losing Isaiah (1995) — Director
12. Felicity (1998) — Director
13. An Amish Murder (2013) — Director
14. Homegrown (1998) — Director
15. Girl Fight (2011) — Director
16. Waterland (1992) — Director
17. Army Wives (2007) — Director
18. A Dangerous Woman (1993) — Director
19. Living with the Dead (2002) — Director
20. Certain Fury (1985) — Director
21. Grassroots (2012) — Director
22. Paris Trout (1991) — Director
23. So B. It (2016) — Director
24. NYC 22 (2012) — Director
25. ABC Afterschool Special (1972) — Director
26. A Killing in a Small Town (1990) — Director
27. Time Bomb (2006) — Director
28. Shattered Mind (1996) — Director
29. The $treet (2000) — Director
30. Warden of Red Rock (2001) — Director
31. Robbery Homicide Division (2002) — Director
32. Family of Spies (1990) — Director
33. The Patron Saint of Liars (1998) — Director
34. Wasteland (1999) — Director
35. The Abduction of Kari Swenson (1987) — Director
36. Promised a Miracle (1988) — Director
37. What Are Friends For? (1980) — Director
38. Resurrection (1999) — Director
39. The Warden (2001) — Director
40. Manchild (2007) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Crashing (2007) — Writer