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He's an Oscar-nominated actor and former child star who boasts a famous family - and his godmother is Jamie Lee Curtis! So can YOU guess who it is?


This angelic youngster grew up to become one of the most famous faces in Hollywood.

In 2015 boxing movie Southpaw, he removed his contacts for a scene in which police told his character Billy "The Great" Hope his wife has died - which he says forced himself to 'listen more closely.' Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in October Sky, Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography Rocket Boys, in which he portrayed a young man from West Virginia striving to win a science scholarship to avoid becoming a coal miner. In the film Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger played American cowboys turned lovers Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar.

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