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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