Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels 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 , 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 . He has also received nominations by the Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Awards, and several others for his work in The Squid and the Whale . He played Debra Winger's husband in the 1983 Oscar-winning film Terms of Endearment.
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