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).
Filmography · 139
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
Family Guy
1999 · Jeff Daniels (voice)
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Self
Frasier
1993 · Doug (voice)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
The Colbert Report
2005 · Self
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
The View
1997 · Self
Shrinking
2023
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hawaii Five-O
1968 · Neal Forrester
Impractical Jokers
2011 · Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Self - Guest
The Morning Show
2019 · Lukas
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
American Playhouse
1982 · Jed Jenkins
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Self
The Martian
2015 · Theodore "Teddy" Sande...
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
MTV Video Music Awards
1984 · Self - Presenter
The Newsroom
2012 · Will McAvoy
Dumb and Dumber
1994 · Harry Dunne
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014 · Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Self
101 Dalmatians
1996 · Roger
Looper
2012 · Abe
Speed
1994 · Harry
Godless
2017 · Frank Griffin
Dumb and Dumber To
2014 · Harry Dunne
HBO First Look
1992
State of Play
2009 · George Fergus
Allegiant
2016 · David
American Rust
2021 · Det. Del Harris
The Brink of War
2026 · Ronald Reagan
The American Revolution
2025 · Thomas Jefferson (voic...
A Man in Full
2024 · Charlie Croker
Arachnophobia
1990 · Ross Jennings
Steve Jobs
2015 · John Sculley
Terms of Endearment
1983 · Flap Horton
The Looming Tower
2018 · John O'Neill
RV
2006 · Travis Gornicke
Pleasantville
1998 · Mr. Johnson
The Hours
2002 · Louis Waters
Space Chimps
2008 · Zartog (voice)
The Comey Rule
2020 · James Comey
Fly Away Home
1996 · Thomas Alden
My Favorite Martian
1999 · Tim O'Hara
The Squid and the Whale
2005 · Bernard Berkman
Gettysburg
1993 · Col. Joshua Chamberlai...
2 Days in the Valley
1996 · Alvin Strayer
Washington
2020 · Self - Narrator
Blood Work
2002 · Jasper 'Buddy' Noone
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005 · Sig Mickelson
The Lookout
2007 · Lewis
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985 · Tom Baxter / Gil Sheph...
Heartburn
1986 · Richard
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
2021 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
2024 · Self
Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 · Preacher
Something Wild
1986 · Charles Driggs
Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
2020 · Himself
The American Buffalo
2023 · (voice)
Infamous
2006 · Alvin Dewey
Hemingway
2021 · Ernest Hemingway (voic...
ARES: live
2015 · Teddy Sanders
Radio Days
1987 · Biff Baxter
Traitor
2008 · Carter
Away We Go
2009 · Jerry Farlander
Paper Man
2009 · Richard Dunn
Ragtime
1981 · P.C. O'Donnell
Timescape
1992 · Ben Wilson
Gods and Generals
2003 · Lt. Col. Joshua Lawren...
The Catcher Was a Spy
2018 · Bill Donovan
Mama's Boy
2007 · Mert Rosenbloom
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
1990 · Denton Webb
The Butcher's Wife
1991 · Dr. Alex Tremor
A Rumor of War
1980 · Chaplain
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021 · Self
The House on Carroll Street
1988 · Cochran
Trial and Error
1997 · Charles Tuttle
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Lyman Fellers
Howl
2010 · Professor David Kirk
Adam
2020 · Mickey
All the Rage
1999 · Warren Harding
Cheaters
2000 · Dr. Gerard Plecki
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
2003 · Self (archive footage)...
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
2004 · Blue Man
The Crossing
2000 · Gen. George Washington
Imaginary Heroes
2004 · Ben Travis
There Goes the Neighborhood
1992 · Willis Embry
Chasing Sleep
2001 · Ed Saxon
The Answer Man
2009 · Arlen Faber
The Saint of Second Chances
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Marie: A True Story
1985 · Eddie Sisk
Love Hurts
1990 · Paul Weaver
Checking Out
1988 · Ray Macklin
Broadway: The Next Generation
— · Self
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
2013 · Self
Paddy Chayefsky: Collector of Words
2025 · Self
The Goodbye Girl
2004 · Elliot Garfield
Sweet Hearts Dance
1988 · Sam Manners
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
2017 · Narrator
Super Sucker
2002 · Fred Barlow
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
1988 · Lt. Steve Maryk
Redwood Curtain
1995 · Lyman Fellers
A Plumm Summer
2008 · Narrator
I Witness
2003 · James Rhodes
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
1998 · Self
Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy
2006 · Self
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
1992 · Tom Noonan
Robin Williams: A Family Affair
2006 · Self
Rain Without Thunder
1993 · Jonathan Garson
Guest Artist
2019 · Joseph Harris
Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
— · Ralph Teetor (voice)
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
2018 · The Emperor
"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
2015 · Self
No Place Like Home
1989 · Mike Cooper
Bye Bye Barry
2023 · Self
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
2008 · Dan Miller
RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors
2006 · Self
Escanaba in da Moonlight
2001 · Rueben Soady
Remembering Ragtime
2004 · P. C. O'Donnell (archi...
An Invasion of Privacy
1983 · Francis Ryan
Still Dumb After All These Years
2006 · Self
The Making of 'Speed'
1994 · Self
The Russian Five
2018 · self
RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors
2006 · Self
Fifth of July
1982 · Jed Jenkins
Dumb and Dumber - Making Of
2004 · Self
Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party
1997 · Self
Robin Williams: A Family Affair
2006 · Self
America's Classic Ballparks
1991 · Self - Narrator (voice...
Of Miracles and Men
2015 · Self - Narrator