As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

Filmography


Purple Rose Theatre Company

The Purple Rose Theatre Company (or PRTC) was founded by Jeff Daniels in 1991. Daniels' next major film role would be in Clint Eastwood's Blood Work. Gods and Generals followed in 2003 as did the action film I Witness co-starring James Spader.

Currently he stars as Will McAvoy in the television series The Newsroom. 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 (1985) (hence the name of his theatre company). Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels (born February 19 1955) is an American actor musician and playwright.