Jake was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, and the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who also played his sister in Donnie Darko. The siblings also worked together in the film A Dangerous Woman. His father is of partial Swedish heritage and his mother is Jewish of Ashkenazi heritage. His mother’s brother, Eric Foner, is a well known American historian at Columbia Univercity…..jake-gyllenhaal1