---
name: "Stephen Gyllenhaal"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-gyllenhaal"
fi1m_id: "stephen-gyllenhaal"
imdb_id: "nm0350455"
tmdb_id: 15912
wikidata_id: "Q469233"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "4 October 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "director"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-07T04:02:45.617623+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Stephen Gyllenhaal

## Identity

Stephen Gyllenhaal

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-gyllenhaal
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-gyllenhaal
- **IMDb ID:** nm0350455
- **TMDB ID:** 15912
- **Wikidata ID:** Q469233
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gyllenhaal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469233, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15912

Director. Born 4 October 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 4 October 1949, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Active:** 1990–2013
- **Also known as:** Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal 
- **Frequently works with:** [Michael Fields](https://film.one/person/michael-fields.md), [Billy Gierhart](https://film.one/person/billy-gierhart.md), [Brad Anderson](https://film.one/person/brad-anderson.md), [Clark Johnson](https://film.one/person/clark-johnson.md), [Darnell Martin](https://film.one/person/darnell-martin.md), [David Von Ancken](https://film.one/person/david-von-ancken.md), [Dean White](https://film.one/person/dean-white.md), [Elodie Keene](https://film.one/person/elodie-keene.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as director, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 88 (2), 2000s 78 (2), 2010s 87 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 79 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 4, Mystery 3, Action & Adventure 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Gyllenhaal, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q469233, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350455/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15912

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Shield*](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md) (84), [*The Mentalist*](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md) (71)
- **AMC+:** [*Rectify*](https://film.one/tv/rectify.md) (87)
- **Apple TV:** [*Twin Peaks*](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) (86)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal is an American film and television director and poet. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, with a degree in English.

He began directing in the late 1970s and early 1980s with after-school specials and television films such as *Paris Trout* (1991), for which he received a Directors Guild of America Award. His feature films include *Waterland* (1992), *A Dangerous Woman* (1993), *Losing Isaiah* (1995) and *Homegrown* (1998). Since the mid-1990s he has worked primarily in television, directing episodes of *Twin Peaks* (1990), *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), *Numb3rs* (2005), *The Mentalist* (2008), *Rectify* (2013), *Blue Bloods* (2010) and *Billions* (2016).

Gyllenhaal is also a poet whose work has appeared in literary journals; his collection *Claptrap: Notes from Hollywood* was published in 2006. He is the father of actors Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Rectify* (2013), Fi1m 87, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/rectify.md)
- *The Mentalist* (2008), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *The Shield* (2002), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md)
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), Fi1m 89, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)

## Complete filmography (50)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *UnCharitable* (2023), Director
- *So B. It* (2016), Director
- *Billions* (2016), series, Director
- *Bosch* (2015), series, Director
- *Rectify* (2013), series, Director — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/rectify.md)
- *An Amish Murder* (2013), Director
- *Grassroots* (2012), Director, Screenplay
- *NYC 22* (2012), series, Director
- *Girl Fight* (2011), Director
- *Blue Bloods* (2010), series, Director
- *The Mentalist* (2008), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mentalist.md)
- *Army Wives* (2007), series, Director
- *Crashing* (2007), as Writer
- *Manchild* (2007), Director
- *Time Bomb* (2006), Director
- *Numb3rs* (2005), series, Director
- *Lucky* (2003), series, Director
- *Robbery Homicide Division* (2002), series, Director
- *Everwood* (2002), series, Director
- *Living with the Dead* (2002), Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Living with the Dead* (2002), series, Director
- *The Shield* (2002), series, Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-shield.md)
- *Warden of Red Rock* (2001), Director
- *The Warden* (2001), Director
- *The $treet* (2000), series, Director
- *Wasteland* (1999), series, Director
- *Resurrection* (1999), Director
- *Felicity* (1998), series, Director
- *L.A. Doctors* (1998), series, Director
- *Homegrown* (1998), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *The Patron Saint of Liars* (1998), Producer, Director
- *Shattered Mind* (1996), Director, Producer
- *Losing Isaiah* (1995), Director
- *A Dangerous Woman* (1993), Director
- *Homicide: Life on the Street* (1993), series, Director — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/tv/homicide-life-on-the-street.md)
- *Waterland* (1992), Director
- *Paris Trout* (1991), Director
- *A Killing in a Small Town* (1990), Director
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)
- *Family of Spies* (1990), series, Director
- *Question of Faith* (1988), Director
- *Hothouse* (1988), series, Director
- *Promised a Miracle* (1988), Director
- *The Abduction of Kari Swenson* (1987), Director
- *The Insiders* (1985), series, Director
- *Certain Fury* (1985), Director
- *The New Kids* (1985), Story, Screenplay
- *What Are Friends For?* (1980), Director
- *CBS Afternoon Playhouse* (1978), series, Producer
- *ABC Afterschool Special* (1972), series, Director

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