Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Actor & Director (b. 1977)
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The ThumbScore for Maggie Gyllenhaal (71.1%) is the average audience approval rating across 23 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Maggie's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

23
Movies
71.1%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate Maggie Gyllenhaal’s films lower than 55% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Donnie Darko (YouTube, Philo, Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Shout! TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Kanopy, Fawesome, The CW, Fandango at Home) · Stranger Than Fiction (YouTube, Plex, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Mona Lisa Smile (Hoopla, Kanopy) · 40 Days and 40 Nights (Hoopla) · Paris Je T'aime (YouTube, Roku Channel, The CW, Fandango at Home, Pluto TV, Plex, Prime Video (free), Xumo Play, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Frank (YouTube, Fandango at Home, Tubi, Kanopy, Hoopla) and 3 more.

Frequent Collaborators

Christian Bale (2)Jake Gyllenhaal (2)Drew Barrymore (2)Beth Grant (2)Steve Buscemi (2)

Margalit 'Maggie' Ruth Gyllenhaal (born November 16, 1977) is an American actress and filmmaker. Part of the Gyllenhaal family, she is the daughter of filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko (2001). She then appeared in Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (both 2002), and Mona Lisa Smile (2003). She received critical acclaim for her leading performances in the erotic romantic drama Secretary (2002) and the drama Sherrybaby (2006), each of which earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. After several commercially successful films in 2006, including World Trade Center, she received wider recognition for playing Rachel Dawes in the superhero film The Dark Knight (2008).

For her performance as a single mother in Crazy Heart (2009), she received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently starred in the comedies and dramas: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010), Hysteria (2011), and Won't Back Down (2012). Her other roles include a Secret Service agent in the action-thriller White House Down (2013), a musician in Frank (2014), and the title role in the drama The Kindergarten Teacher (2018). In 2021, she made her writing and directing debut with the psychological drama The Lost Daughter, for which she won the Venice International Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She has also appeared in five stage productions since 2000, including making her Broadway debut in a revival of The Real Thing. She has starred in several television series, including the BBC political-thriller miniseries The Honourable Woman.

Born 1977-11-16 in Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA.

On ThumbScore, Maggie Gyllenhaal appears in 23 films with an average audience score of 71.1%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every Maggie Gyllenhaal movie, ranked by audience score

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight
2008
👍 92%
Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko
2001
👍 91%
Stranger Than Fiction
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
👍 87%
Hysteria
Hysteria
2011
👍 84%
Mona Lisa Smile
Mona Lisa Smile
2003
👍 81%
40 Days and 40 Nights
40 Days and 40 Nights
2002
👍 80%
Paris Je T'aime
Paris Je T'aime
2006
👍 80%
White House Down
White House Down
2013
👍 76%
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang
2010
👍 76%
Cecil B. Demented
Cecil B. Demented
2000
👍 71%
Monster House
Monster House
2006
👍 70%
Frank
Frank
2014
👍 70%
Secretary
Secretary
2002
👍 69%
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
👍 68%
Criminal
Criminal
2004
👍 67%
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart
2009
👍 66%
Away We Go
Away We Go
2009
👍 63%
The Kindergarten Teacher
The Kindergarten Teacher
2018
👍 63%
Sherrybaby
Sherrybaby
2006
👍 63%
Happy Endings
Happy Endings
2005
👍 62%
Trust the Man
Trust the Man
2005
👍 60%
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter
2021
👍 53%
The Bride!
The Bride!
2026
👍 44%