Jake Gyllenhaal

The star of “Brokeback Mountain” and “Prisoners” was born in 1980 in a family of famous people. Jake’s father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is the creator and director of several famous TV series, including ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mentalist’, and his mother, Naomi Foner, is a Hollywood script writer.

In addition, this family is interesting for its origin and in the upbringing of children principals according to their religion.

According to his father, Jake is a descendant of the famous Swedish noble family Gyllenhaal, and the mother is a Russian Jew. The successful family raised children fairly democratically, but pretty strictly at the same time. For example, a bar mitzvah (mandatory Jewish rite of admission into adulthood) was decided to be held in a shelter for the homeless to instil in the son a feeling of gratitude for the secured life that he had inherited.