Acting
Jeff Daniels
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).
Titles
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Family Guy
1999
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Frasier
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Colbert Report
2005
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The View
1997
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Impractical Jokers
2011
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Shrinking
2023
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Morning Show
2019
American Playhouse
1982
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
The Martian
2015
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
The Newsroom
2012
American Rust
2021
Dumb and Dumber
1994
Dumb and Dumber To
2014
Speed
1994
Looper
2012
Allegiant
2016
The Brink of War
2026