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).
Movies
Arachnophobia
1990
as Ross Jennings
Fly Away Home
1996
as Thomas Alden
Gettysburg
1993
as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
The Squid and the Whale
2005
as Bernard Berkman
My Favorite Martian
1999
as Tim O'Hara
The Lookout
2007
as Lewis
Dumb and Dumber To
2014
as Harry Dunne
101 Dalmatians
1996
as Roger
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
Blood Work
2002
as Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
2 Days in the Valley
1996
as Alvin Strayer
Dumb and Dumber
1994
as Harry Dunne
Space Chimps
2008
as Zartog (voice)
Heartburn
1986
as Richard
Terms of Endearment
1983
as Flap Horton
RV
2006
as Travis Gornicke
Traitor
2008
as Carter
Pleasantville
1998
as Mr. Johnson
Infamous
2006
as Alvin Dewey
Speed
1994
as Harry
State of Play
2009
as George Fergus
Looper
2012
as Abe
Web Series
Manimal
1983
as Sig Mickelson