Jeff Daniels is an American actor and musician who moves between comedy and drama on stage and screen. Born in 1955 in Athens, Georgia, and raised in Chelsea, Michigan, he made his film debut in Ragtime in 1981 and broke through as the husband in Terms of Endearment. His film work ranges from The Purple Rose of Cairo, Something Wild and The Squid and the Whale to Arachnophobia, Speed and Dumb and Dumber. On television he played news anchor Will McAvoy in the HBO series The Newsroom, which won him a Primetime Emmy Award in 2013, and he won a second Emmy for the miniseries Godless. He has been nominated three times for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. In 1991 he founded the Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Michigan, for which he has written more than a dozen plays, and he has also recorded several albums.
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Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor and musician.
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He has written more than a dozen plays for the company.
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He made his film debut in Miloš Forman's drama Ragtime (1981)
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From 2012 to 2014, Daniels starred as Will McAvoy in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom
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