Stephen Gyllenhaal

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 NBCs 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 from Hollywood was published in June 2006 by Cantara Christophers New Yorkbased literary small press Cantarabooks In 2013 Gyllenhaal directed a backdoor pilot originally titled Sworn to Silence that aired as the Lifetime TV movie An Amish Murder It stars Neve Campbell as a local police detective who must solve a murder case that involves the Amish Community she was shunned from years ago Gyllenhaal is also in postproduction on a documentary about dream interpretation titled Exquisite Continent In 2019 Gyllenhaal was on the Social Impact Advisory Board of the San Diego International Film Festival with Susan Sarandon and Cecelia Peck