Jeffrey Warren Jeff Daniels born February 19 1955 is an American actor musician and playwright He founded a nonprofit 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 castmates 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 ComedyMusical for Woody Allens 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Jeff Daniels licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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