- Father of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal
- Writes poetry, submits his work to poetry journals, and has been published in some of them.
- Son Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, born December 19, 1980.
- Granddaughter Ramona Sarsgaard, born October 3, 2006.
- Daughter Margaret Ruth Gyllenhaal, born November 16, 1977.
- Has directed one Emmy Award-winning performance: Barbara Hershey in A Killing in a Small Town (1990).
- Attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.
- His ancestry includes one quarter Swedish, as well as English, Swiss/German, Scottish, and distant Welsh and French; the surname Gyllenhaal originates from Sweden, changed from "Gunnarsson Haal" when his ancestor was enobled.
- He is the son of Virginia Lowrie (Childs), from New York, and Hugh Anders Gyllenhaal, from Bryn Athyn, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.
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