Soon, she had supporting roles in 1993 and 1998 , which were directed by her father, which also featured her brother Jake.
Her father is a film director and poet, and her mother is a screenwriter and director.
Apart from being an actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal is also a political person.
Gyllenhaal was pregnant with her first daughter, Ramona, now 12, and the couple was looking to be close enough to walk their kids to school when they were of age; the light-filled 19th-century townhouse and its adjacent garden fit the bill.