Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor. 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).
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as Ralph Teetor (voice)
as Raymond Lesko(2 eps)
as Ed Watkins
as Ronald Reagan
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)(4 eps)
as Charlie Croker(6 eps)
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as (voice)(2 eps)
as Narrator (voice)
as Randy(3 eps)
as Det. Del Harris(19 eps)
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as Ernest Hemingway (voice)(3 eps)
as James Comey(2 eps)
as Mickey
as Himself(1 ep)
as Self - Narrator(3 eps)
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as Self(1 ep)
as Joseph Harris
as The Emperor (voice)
as Bill Donovan
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as John O'Neill(10 eps)
as Frank Griffin(7 eps)
as Narrator(2 eps)
as David
as John Sculley
as Theodore "Teddy" Sanders
as Self(5 eps)
as Casting Reject(1 ep)
as Self(1 ep)
as Teddy Sanders(6 eps)
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as Harry Dunne
as Self(4 eps)
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as Abe
as Will McAvoy(25 eps)
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as Professor David Kirk
as Arlen Faber
as Richard Dunn
as Jerry Farlander
as George Fergus
as Carter
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as Dan Miller
as Mert Rosenbloom
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as Self(1 ep)
as Alvin Dewey
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as Self(2 eps)
as Bernard Berkman
as Sig Mickelson
as Preacher
as Self(2 eps)
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as P. C. O'Donnell (archive footage)
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as Elliot Garfield
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as James Rhodes
as Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
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as Louis Waters
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as Fred Barlow
as Ed Saxon
as Rueben Soady
as Warren
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as Gen. George Washington
as Tim O'Hara
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as Mr. Johnson
as Self(1 ep)
as Charles Tuttle
as Roger
as Thomas Alden
as Alvin Strayer
as Self(2 eps)
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as Harry Dunne
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as Col. Joshua Chamberlain
as Doug (voice)(1 ep)
as Self - Guest(3 eps)
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as Jonathan Garson
as Willis Embry
as Tom Noonan
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as Dr. Alex Tremor
as Denton Webb
as Ross Jennings
as Paul Weaver
as Mike Cooper
as Ray Macklin
as Sam Manners
as Lt. Steve Maryk
as Cochran
as Jim(1 ep)
as Biff Baxter
as Charles Driggs
as Richard
as Eddie Sisk
as Tom Baxter / Gil Shepherd
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as Flap Horton
as Francis Ryan
as Jed Jenkins
as Jed Jenkins(1 ep)
as P.C. O'Donnell
as Chaplain(2 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Self - Host(2 eps)
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)(1 ep)
as Neal Forrester(1 ep)
as Lyman Fellers(1 ep)