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Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. The Dark Knight was a critical and commercial success, setting a new opening weekend box office record for North America. In a Salon review of the film, Stephanie Zacharek called Gyllenhaal's character "a tough cookie in a Stanwyck-style bias-cut dress" and stated that "the movie feels smarter and more supple when she's on-screen".
Gyllenhaal is a supporter of Witness, a non-profit organization that uses video and online technologies to expose human rights violations. She co-hosted a benefit dinner with founder Peter Gabriel in November Gyllenhaal helped raise funds for TrickleUp. Since , Gyllenhaal has been supporting the Hear the World Foundation as ambassador.
In her role, she advocates for equal opportunities and better quality of life for people with hearing loss. The show featured newcomer designers who worked only with natural and eco-friendly fabrics and materials. In Trust the Man, featuring Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, and Billy Crudup, she played Elaine, who has been dating Tobey, Crudup's character, for seven years and has begun to feel that it is time for her to settle down and start a family.
The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. Ethan Alter of Premiere felt that the performances by Gyllenhaal and Duchovny were "much more at ease" and concluded with "that's probably because they're [sic] played these characters many times before". Her performance in the film received favorable reviews; Mike Straka of Fox News wrote: "Gyllenhaal has never been sexier in any film before and her interplay with Ferrell will propel her to more A-list films, leaving her indie-darling days behind, no doubt.
She regarded this as "one of the films she most enjoyed making". In Sherrybaby, Gyllenhaal played a young drug-addicted thief trying to put her life in order after prison so she can reconcile with her daughter. During promotion of the film, she noted of her portrayal of the character: "I think she's in such dire straits that all she has are these kind of naive, fierce hopes. And while I was playing the part I was looking for pleasure and hope in everything, even in these really bleak things.
And so it was really mostly after I finished the movie that I felt pain. Gyllenhaal's next film role was in the comedy-drama Happy Endings, in which she played an adventuress singer who seduces a young gay musician Jason Ritter as well as his rich father Tom Arnold. She recorded songs for the film's soundtrack, calling the role the "roughest, scariest acting ever" and adding she is more natural when singing on screen than when acting.
Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly declared Gyllenhaal's performance "as wonderfully, naturally slouchy-sexy as her character is artificial". For her role, Gyllenhaal had to perform multiple scenes of full-frontal nudity as the film tackled issues of strip searches. Gyllenhaal provides the essential bridge between the parts of the play's title.
Viewed as a sex symbol, she was ranked in the "Hot List" by Maxim magazine in and She and her brother Jake filmed a commercial for Rock the Vote, and visited the University of Southern California to encourage students to vote in the U.
Gyllenhaal supported Barack Obama in the presidential election. In June , Gyllenhaal and numerous other celebrities appeared in a video showing support for whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
At the 18th Independent Spirit Awards in , she spoke out against the Iraq war, stating the reason for the invasion was "oil and imperialism". In , Gyllenhaal drew controversy for her statement that the September 11 attacks were "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world It is always useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict.
Gyllenhaal's breakout role was in the black comedy, Secretary , a film about two people who embark on a mutually fulfilling BDSM lifestyle. The New York Times critic Stephen Holden noted: "The role of Lee, which Maggie Gyllenhaal imbues with a restrained comic delicacy and sweetness, should make her a star.
Secretary was Gyllenhaal's first film role which featured full frontal nudity. Impressed with the script, she initially had reservations about doing the film, which she believed could deliver an anti-feminist message.
However, after carefully discussing the script with the film's director, Steven Shainberg, she agreed to join the project.
Although insisting Shainberg did not exploit her, Gyllenhaal has said she felt "scared when filming began" and that "in the wrong hands Next, she had a supporting role in the comedy-drama Adaptation , a film that tells the story of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's struggle to adapt The Orchid Thief into a film. That same year, she had a small role in the comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, she revealed the reason for accepting the role was "to play somebody who feels confident in herself as a sexy, beautiful woman". The film generated mostly mixed reviews, with Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times describing it as "smug and reductive".
Her next roles were in smaller independent films: Casa de los Babys , is a story about six American women impatiently waiting out their lengthy residency requirements in a South American country before picking up their adoptive babies, and Criminal , a remake of the Argentinian film Nine Queens, with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna. Gyllenhaal plays an honest hotel manager forced to help her crooked brother Reilly by seducing one of his victims. Gyllenhaal began her career as a teenager with small roles in several of her father's films, and appeared with her brother in the cult favorite Donnie Darko She received critical acclaim for her leading roles in the comedy Secretary , and the drama Sherrybaby Each performance in these two films earned a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Gyllenhaal has also been involved with theatre; she has appeared in five stage productions since
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