Jeff Daniels
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
5.741
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
5.5
Hawaii Five-O
7.13
The View
4.363
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
5.409
Frasier
7.681
The Colbert Report
6.886
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
7.191
Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Breakfast with the Arts
5
The Newsroom
8.092
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
6.78
A Man in Full
6.5
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
5.543
The Daily Show
6.378
MTV Video Music Awards
7.6
Saturday Night Live
7
The Looming Tower
7.298
Godless
7.7
Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge
7.2
ARES: live
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
5.972
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
5.8
The American Buffalo
6.625
A Rumor of War
6
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
6.281
American Rust
6.925
Trying Times
6.5
Saturday Night Live
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The Graham Norton Show
7.185
The Kelly Clarkson Show
6.5
Family Guy
7.39
Off Camera with Sam Jones
4
Washington
7.1
The Comey Rule
6.87
Hemingway
7.308
HBO First Look
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Impractical Jokers: Dinner Party
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Impractical Jokers
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CBS News Sunday Morning
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Shrinking
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Movies
The Hours
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Speed
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Good Night, and Good Luck.
7.1
Gettysburg
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Pleasantville
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The Squid and the Whale
6.954
The Purple Rose of Cairo
7.399
The Butcher's Wife
5.661
The Answer Man
6.348
Terms of Endearment
7.114
Fly Away Home
6.937
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
6.964
Arachnophobia
6.436
Something Wild
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Space Chimps
4.9
Radio Days
7.052
It's the Rage
5.3
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
6.2
101 Dalmatians
5.9
Dumb and Dumber
6.637
The Lookout
6.667
Chasing Sleep
6.056
Imaginary Heroes
6.527
Ragtime
7.012
RV
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Blood Work
6.184
2 Days in the Valley
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Infamous
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My Favorite Martian
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Mama's Boy
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Heartburn
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The Crossing
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Timescape
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Cheaters
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I Witness
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Gods and Generals
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Howl
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State of Play
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The Saint of Second Chances
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Paper Man
6.296
Trial and Error
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The Goodbye Girl
5.679
Escanaba in da Moonlight
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Sweet Hearts Dance
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Away We Go
6.657
A Plumm Summer
5.786
Checking Out
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The House on Carroll Street
5.853
Looper
6.893
Marie: A True Story
5.636
Dumb and Dumber To
5.565
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
6.464
Redwood Curtain
5.8
Remembering Ragtime
0
No Place Like Home
6.458
The Catcher Was a Spy
6.2
Love Hurts
4.8
Bye Bye Barry
7.921
9/11: Inside the President's War Room
6.8
Sweet Nothing in My Ear
6.269
There Goes the Neighborhood
5.4
The Martian
7.7
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley
7.6
Rain Without Thunder
3.5
Steve Jobs
6.777
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
8.1
America's Classic Ballparks
0
Broadway: The Next Generation
10
Allegiant
6.103
Of Miracles and Men
7.1
Traitor
6.646
Gerald R. Ford: A Test of Character
0
Blind Logic: The Ralph R. Teetor Story
0
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
5.25
Super Sucker
5.3
The Emperor's Newest Clothes
7
Guest Artist
4.714
Fifth of July
7
Saturday Night Live: A Tribute to Chris Farley
4.5
An Invasion of Privacy
1
Barry Sonnenfeld: The Kosher Cowboy
0
RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors
10
Robin Williams: A Family Affair
0
"That's Awesome!": The Story of 'Dumb and Dumber To'
7.5
Still Dumb After All These Years
7.7
Adam
6.5
Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party
5.5
James Gandolfini: Tribute to a Friend
7.3
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
0
Reykjavik
0
Dumb and Dumber - Making Of
0
The Russian Five
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