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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, and 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 others for his work in The Squid and the Whale (London Critics Circle Awards, Independent Spirit Awards, Chlotrudis Awards and Gotham Awards). He played Debra Winger's husband in the 1983 Oscar-winning film Terms of Endearment.
Actors: Genevieve Buechner (actress), Valerie Tian (actress), Cody Linley (actor), Joshua Vancil (producer), Gig Morton (actor), Greg Andermann (director), Greg Andermann (producer), Peter Rudlowski (producer), Aaron Scot Kaplan (writer), Aaron Scot Kaplan (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Colin Ross Smith (editor), Colin Ross Smith (director), Mark Loftus (producer), Mark Loftus (writer), Joe Cassidy (actor), Luke Aherne (producer), Tommy J Brennan (actor), Scott Buckley (composer), Jamie Scott Gordon (actor), Shona Denovan (actress), Cheryl Belcourt (miscellaneous crew), Linda Campbell (producer),
Plot: Jeff he takes time off work to write a book but instead he wastes his days sleeping, watching films and playing computer games - much to the annoyance of his partner, Mandy. Until one day two mysterious visitors arrive to arrest him for wasting his talents. Jeff needs to find a way out and prove he is not a waster.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Rhoda Griffis (actress), Tammy Arnold (miscellaneous crew), Tara-Nicole Azarian (actress), Nick Searcy (actor), Bonnie Johnson (actress), Mike Pniewski (actor), Afemo Omilami (actor), Ricky Schroder (actor), Michael Rooker (actor), Todd Davis (actor), Frank Hoyt Taylor (actor), Gregory Alan Williams (actor), Lem Collins (actor), Aaron Lee Syrett (miscellaneous crew), Irwin M. Rappaport (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Tells the true story of the the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow in a rural North Carolina town by Robert Teel and his sons, the aftermath of the murder and the eventual acquittal of the Teels by an all white jury, in spite of multiple eye witnesses to the murder.
Keywords: based-on-autobiography, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, murder, racism