Birth Name:
Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal
Birth Place:
Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA
Date of Birth:
November 16, 1977
What Race or Ethnicity?:
Swedish, Jewish
According to her personal website, Maggies’s father is of Swedish descent and her mother is of Jewish descent. She got her first break on the film Donnie Darko.
Maggie is a descendant of the Sweden noble Gyllenhaal family and her last Swedish ancestor was her great great grandfather.
Source:
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/jake_gyllenhaal_biog/2
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