Ancestry of
Jake Gyllenhaal
Movie Actor
Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American film actor. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor by the Academy Awards for his performance in Brokeback Mountain. He is the son of film director Stephen Gyllenhaal and film producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner. His sister is film actress Maggie Gyllenhaal
Famous Kin
In addition to his immediate family, Jake Gyllenhaal has a number of famous kin connected to his family tree. This includes family connections to fellow actors Vincent Price, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Dick Van Dyke, and Raquel Welch. Some of his relatively close famous kin include inventors Eli Whitney (Cotton gin), Samuel Morse (Morse code), and Charles Goodyear (namesake of the Goodyear Tire Company). A couple of more infamous cousins include Benedict Arnold (Traitor to the American cause) and Sydney Biddle Barrows (aka Mayflower Madam).
Jake Gyllenhaal also has connections to the current royal family through Queen Elizabeth II and a number of U.S. Presidents including Ulysses S. Grant, Calvin Coolidge, James Garfield, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and both Presidents Bush.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Jake Gyllenhaal
Henry B. Quinby
52nd Governor of New Hampshire
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp
Henry B. Quinby
52nd Governor of New Hampshire
18th cousin 2 times removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
Drew Gilpin Faust
28th President of Harvard University
11th cousin 1 time removed
via Rev. John Lothrop
Meldrim Thomson Jr.
73rd Governor of New Hampshire
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere
General Joseph E. Johnston
Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War
15th cousin 6 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp
George Plimpton
Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist
19th cousin 2 times removed
via Isabella de Beauchamp
George Plimpton
Sports writer, Humorist, and Journalist
20th cousin 1 time removed
via Eudo la Zouche
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