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Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Born Naomi Achs
March 15, 1946
New York CityOccupation Screenwriter Spouse Eric Foner (ex-husband)
Stephen Gyllenhaal (1977-2009)Naomi Gyllenhaal (née Achs, previously Foner; born March 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter. She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season. She is the Naomi from the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two seasons.
Personal life
Gyllenhaal was born Naomi Achs in New York City, the daughter of doctors Ruth (née Silbowitz) and Samuel Achs.[1][2][3] She was raised in a family of "high-achieving New York Jews."[4] She attended Barnard College in New York City, graduating with a BA in English. She later achieved an MA in Developmental Psychology at Columbia.
Her first ex-husband is historian and Columbia Professor Eric Foner. Her second ex-husband is the film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, with whom she was married for 32 years and has also collaborated professionally. The couple's two children are actors Maggie and Jake.
On October 3, 2006, Naomi became a grandmother for the first time when Maggie and her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard, became parents of baby Ramona Sarsgaard, who was born in New York City.
References
- ^ "Paid Notice: Deaths ACHS, ROBERT". The New York Times. 2005-07-03. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804EED61331F930A35754C0A9639C8B63. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ "DR. RUTH ACHS, 48, PEDIATRICIAN,DIES". The New York Times. 1968-09-29. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30E12FB3B541B7B93CBAB1782D85F4C8685F9. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
- ^ Lipworth, Elaine (2011-01-01). "Jake Gyllenhaal: My family values". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/01/jake-gyllenhaal-my-family-values. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
- ^ "A New York Times Sponsored Archive: Bee Season". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/ads/beeseason/articles_naomi1.html.
External links
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (1981–2000) Ernest Thompson (1981) · John Briley (1982) · James L. Brooks (1983) · Peter Shaffer (1984) · Woody Allen (1985) · Robert Bolt (1986) · Bernardo Bertolucci, Mark Peploe and Enzon Ungari (1987) · Naomi Foner (1988) · Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic (1989) · Michael Blake (1990) · Callie Khouri (1991) · Bo Goldman (1992) · Steven Zaillian (1993) · Quentin Tarantino (1994) · Emma Thompson (1995) · Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (1996) · Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (1997) · Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard (1998) · Alan Ball (1999) · Stephen Gaghan (2000)
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