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LA born American actor Jake is brother of actress Maggie and son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and has been acting himself since he was just ten. Perhaps his big break was in Richard Kelly's independent cult hit Donnie Darko, where he played a teenager with psychological problems where Maggie played his on-screen sister. He played a student called Sam Hall in the box office hit The Day After Tomorrow in 2004 about a catastrophics global meltdown, with Dash Mihok. 2005 was a very big year for Jake Gyllenhaal, seeing the release of a Gulf War movie called Jarhead where he played a marine Anthony Swofford and of course Ang Lee's Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountin about forbidden gay romance between cowboys in 1963 Wyoming.

Jake is quite the activist, invovled with the ROck the Vote advertising and campaigned in the 2004 elections with the Democrats. He is also actively involved in environmental causes. Apparently his hobbies include cooking and working with wood - I wonder if he means an erect penis?

Did you know that Jake was nearly used to replace Tobey Maguire for SPider-Man 2 when the director became concerned with Tobey's health?

Gyllenhaal enjoys stage work and has worked in London for Kenneth Lonergran's This is Our Youth revival. Let us not forget that also in 2005, Proof with Gwyneth Paltrow, another film Jake was invovled in, received critical acclaim and then maybe somewhat overexposing, he also starred in Zodiac. But nonetheless, 2005 catapulted his career and has been ranked number 2 on the Gay Wired Magazine poll of male celebrities who have played gay characters. He is also regularly in the top-spot for AfterElton.com's hottest and sexiest men awards.

There's been loads of paparazzi photographs of Jake's bulge when cycling (which he regularly does with Lance Armstrong and Matthew McConaughey) and even a shot of his flies unzipped in public, although you won't be able to see his cock that way. The best nude shots of Jake can be found in Sam Mendes' Jarhead with Peter Sarsgaard (who you can see naked here), Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black and Kevin Foster, where in one scene he wears just a christmas cock-sock and a hat, doing a stripper-style dance for the troops giving us a great shot of his butt. Then later in the movie he is showering naked and initially you only see his perfect round ass. But thanks to the power of DVDs someone managed to get some pretty clear caps of his penis in what could be called Gyllenhaal's first movie full frontal. There is also a sex scene with his girlfriend where you get to see his nake body from behind and for a while his balls are in view.

Then of course you have Brokeback Mountain, the cowboy gay love story with the late Heath Ledger. We get to see Jake bathing in the nude at the creek and jumping off a cliff with Heath without any clothes on later.

Talking about love and Brokeback to ABC Australia, Jake said "We have this idea of what love is, and everyone says, "Love has no bounds." And we all subscribe to that idea. And you can read it in cards, you know, like, it's become such a cliché that we don't really believe that, because when it comes really down to "love has no bounds", we don't buy it. We all stay within a form, I'm speaking for myself. I stay within a form of, like, is that OK to do or is that OK to do?"

" I’m doing a movie right now called Zodiac with Mark Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jnr. David Fincher is directing and it’s about the Zodiac Killer – the serial killer in San Francisco in the late Sixties and early Seventies. It’s a true story and it’s very David Fincher and very good, hopefully. Then again, if it’s not good David will make it good." on what he was doing after filming Jarhead, talking to IndieLondon.co.uk

"Yeah. Ang was at the beginning someone who said—who didn't say much. I like to compare my relationship with Ang [to] a marriage in some ways. There's a honeymoon period, and then after that—you have the wedding and then you have sex like once or twice a year, but the sex is great, you know what I mean? [Laughs] Both Heath and I were incredibly surprised to see Ang at press conferences totally articulate and really very clear about what he was saying about the film. We're both like, “When we asked it was like…" on how Brokeback Mountain changed him, talking to AboutFilm.com.