- Godfather of Matilda Ledger.
- He has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Brokeback Mountain (2005).
- Paul Newman is his godfather and Jamie Lee Curtis is his godmother.
- His father's ancestry is Swedish, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, and distant Welsh and French. His ancestor, cavalry Lieutenant Nils Gunnarsson Haal, was ennobled, and changed his surname to Gyllenhaal. Jake's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Latvia and Poland), and Jake practices Judaism.
- Attended Columbia University.
- Brother-in-Law of Peter Sarsgaard.
- Graduated from Harvard-Westlake School (1998).
- He has appeared in one film that has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Brokeback Mountain (2005).
- Is allergic to cats.
- American actor.
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