A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

She starred in the HBO film Strip Search (2004) where Maggie Gyllenhaal portrayed an American student in China suspected of terrorism. S. Career


Early work
Gyllenhaal's first films – her feature film debut at the age of 15 Waterland (1992); A Dangerous Woman (1993); and Homegrown (1998) – were directed by her father; the last two also featured her brother; they had supporting roles as children.

Margaret Ruth "Maggie" Gyllenhaal (pron. : /ˈdʒɪlənhɔːl/; born November 16 1977) is an American actress.