Congratulations to Maggie Gyllenhaal as the Oscar-nominated actress has revealed she’s pregnant for the second time, with her and husband Peter Sarsgaard already the proud parents of five year-old Ramona. The news was officially relayed to US Magazine, with the 34 year-old reportedly telling a friend that she’ll “be laying low for a bit now”.

As Hollywood couples go, Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard are among the very firmest; the pair have been together since 2002, almost a decade, after the ‘Crazy Girl’ actress met the 40 year-old through her younger brother Jake Gyllenhaal. With Ramona being born in 2006, the pair eventually married in 2009 – seven years after getting together, take note Kim and Kris – and reside in Brooklyn New York.

Speaking to the same publication last year however, Gyllenhaal had admitted that at times it was a struggle to balance a career which has seen her gain plaudits in films such as ‘Secretary’, ‘Sherrybaby’ and ‘The Dark Knight’ among others, with being a mother and wife. “Being a mom is so present in my mind and my work,” she’d said “It’s the most important thing about me, but next I’d like to play someone who’s not a mother. Really!” It looks like her full-time job as mother has just gained a huge increase in workload however.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard said “I do” over the weekend, we confirmed.

“We are happy to confirm that Maggie and Peter were married on Saturday, May 2,” her rep said.

Gyllenhaal, 31, and Sarsgaard, 38, tied the knot at a small chapel at luxury hotel Masseria in Brindisi, which is in the Puglia region of Italy.

Among the 40 guests? Maggie’s brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and his girlfriend, Reese Witherspoon

Gyllenhaal has dated Sarsgaard — a close friend of Jake’s — for seven years. In April 2006, they announced their engagement.

The couple has a daughter Ramona, 2, and they live in Brooklyn, New York.

“Motherhood is incredible,” she told Britain’s Tatler last August. “It’s brought me to my knees in an incredible way – it’s so humbling.”

Asked if she and Sarsgaard had plans to wed, she said, “At some point in the next 20.”

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Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal mother of Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, filed for divorce from Stephen Gyllenhaal on Wednesday, according to Los Angeles County court documents.

The couple married in 1976, according to IMDB.com. They have property in Los Angeles and Martha’s Vineyard.

At a 2007 press conference, Jake was asked what relationship advice his parents had given him.

“This marks the 30th wedding anniversary of my parents,” he responded. “A young man came up to my dad and asked him, ‘What’s it like being married to the same woman for 30 years?’ My dad answered, ‘She’s not the same woman.’”

Naomi was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and received the Pen West Screenplay Award and the Golden Globe Award, for her screenplay Running On Empty. She also wrote and produced A Dangerous Woman, starring Debra Winge, Barbara Hershey and Gabriel Byrne and Losing Isaiah with Jessica Lange and Halle Berry.

She was involved with the development of Sesame Street and The Electric Company and has an ongoing interest in progressive politics, according to her Foxsearchlight.com biography. She is involved with the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Laboratory, has served on the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America.

Stephen is a long-time director who has worked on such TV shows Army Wives, Numb3rs and The Shield. He also directed A Dangerous Woman, which Jake and Maggie had roles in. Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood is his first collection of poems to be published. Stephen is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

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MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL had to limp down the red carpet at Monday’s THE DARK KNIGHTpremiere, after breaking her toe.

The actress, who stars opposite Christian Baleand the late Heath Ledger in the new Batman movie, suffered the fracture after whacking her foot against some furniture at home.

She blames the accident on her nerves ahead of the film’s big release, telling TV talk show host David Letterman on Wednesday, “I’m like this indie actress, and I have this big movie, and all of a sudden I have a broken toe. I think it was because I was nervous about all this stuff. This big, huge movie all of a sudden, and I just walked across the room and I broke my toe.”

But the star reveals she was too stunned to feel any pain from the break, musing: “I guess it hurt. My boyfriend (actor Peter Sarsgaard) was impressed with how broken it was.”

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Maggie Gyllenhaal says motherhood made her a better actress, but now she wants to spend more time at home than in front of the cameras.

“I think having a child changes everything and has deepened everything in my life,” Gyllenhaal, mom to 20-month-old daughter Ramona, told reporters recently. “I think it has deepened my acting.”

Of motherhood, “It really does crack you open in every way,” said the actress. “I never knew that I could be so tired. I never knew that I could work so hard. I never knew that I could love so much or be so patient or be so excited by the tiniest, tiniest little thing. Everything about it has surprised me.”

It took the challenge of a unique and high-profile movie The Dark Knight, in which Gyllenhaal co-stars with Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger, to get her back to work.

In the film, she plays Rachel Dawes, Batman’s love interest, taking over the role from Katie Holmes, who played the part in the previous film.

“I do think that it’s really difficult to get me away from [Ramona],” she said. “It’s difficult to find a script that’s good enough for me to think, ‘Okay, I really need to do this instead of being with my daughter.’”

Known for her edgy performances, Gyllenhaal filmed Farlanders for director Sam Mendes last spring, “but mostly I’ve been with her,” she says. “Some people have asked me whether I’ll choose things that … have a more sort of child-appropriate content, and I don’t think so. I think I’ll choose what’s interesting to me.”

Gyllenhaal says she receives tremendous support balancing parenthood and career from fiancé, Peter Sarsgaard. “We share absolutely equally,” she explained, and added that her brother Jake Gyllenhaal is “a great uncle.”

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