A maverick in the world of movies, Maggie Gyllenhaal has always been at her luminous best in risque roles. And they really don’t come much more risque than her latest. She talks to Tom Shone THE other week, Maggie Gyllenhaal went on a chat show, her first since giving birth to her second daughter. “I [...]

  Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal may be best known for playing Bruce Wayne’s love interest in “The Dark Knight” or earning an Oscar nomination for her role in “Crazy Heart.” But the Columbia-educated Gyllenhaal — recently dubbed “the ultimate hipster actress” by syndicated columnist Naomi Schaefer Riley — is also known for her social activism, including [...]

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as a submissive secretary to a sadistic boss in the film Secretary. At a point when sadomasochism is being explored in the best-selling novel Fifty Shades Of Grey, the Hollywood actress is now starring in yet another risqué film. She plays a women’s rights [...]

From the outside looking in, Maggie Gyllenhaal thought she could pick a perfect parent out of a crowd. “I used to be judgmental of the way other people would parent,” the actress, 34, shares in Scholastic Parent & Child‘s August/September issue. “I would look at someone talking on a cell phone while her baby was [...]

Want to make men uncomfortable? Just mention vibrators. That’s the lesson of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s press tour the last couple of days, where she’s made the late-night men all kinds of uneasy describing the plot of her new movie, Hysteria. It takes place in Victorian England and documents the true events that led to a doctor [...]

I’ve made so many mistakes that have been helpful in my life. I make them all the time in trying to do everything. It’s impossible not to. I’m not perfect at all—as a wife, as a mother, as an actress. When I made Crazy Heart in 2008, that was the first time I really went [...]

It’s not a great stretch to imagine Maggie Gyllenhaal in a film with sexual overtones. After all, she first came to the attention of many of us with her weirdly smoldering performance in “Secretary.” Now she’s co-starring in “Hysteria,” a film about the events, in late-19th century London, that led to the invention of the [...]

Maggie Gyllenhaal is stunned by the shock of journalists who have caught early screenings of her new movie about the invention of the vibrator. The Dark Knight star thought R-rated period comedy Hysteria would be a hoot for critics, but it seems many of them have been left surprised by the film’s risque scenes of [...]

“I’ve made lots of movies about sex,” Maggie Gyllenhaal says soberly. “I feel pretty open and curious and interested. I was surprised to feel as much as I did.” Ms. Gyllenhaal is remarking on what happened when she watched her new film along with the crowds at the Toronto film festival last year. “I felt [...]