Jeff Daniels

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Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, musician and playwright. 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).

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Movie		Character	Year
	Terms of Endearment	Flap Horton	1983
	Something Wild	Charles Driggs	1986
	Radio Days	Biff Baxter	1987
	Sweet Hearts Dance	Sam Manners	1988
	Arachnophobia	Dr. Ross Jennings	1990
	The Butcher's Wife	Dr. Alex Tremor	1991
	Speed	Harold 'Harry' Temple	1994
	Dumb and Dumber	Harry Dune	1994
	2 Days in the Valley	Alvin Strayer	1996
	Fly Away Home	Thomas "Tom" Alden	1996
	101 Dalmatians	Roger	1996
	Pleasantville	Bill Johnson	1998
	My Favorite Martian	Tim O'Hara	1999
	Gods and Generals	Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain	2003
	The Goodbye Girl	Elliot Garfield	2004
	The Five People You Meet In Heaven	Blue Man	2004
	Good Night, and Good Luck.	Sig Mickelson	2005
	A Plumn Summer	Narrator	2007
	The Lookout	Lewis	2007
	Space Chimps	Zartog	2008
	State of Play	Senator George Fergus	2009
	Away We Go	Jerry Farlander	2009
	Howl	Professor David Kirk	2010
	Looper	Abe	2012