Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
Born Naomi Achs
March 15, 1946 (1946-03-15) (age 65)
New York City
Occupation Screenwriter
Spouse

Eric Foner (ex-husband)

Stephen Gyllenhaal (1977-2009)

Naomi Gyllenhaal (née Achs, previously Foner; born March 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter. She has written the screenplays for several feature films, including Running on Empty (for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe Award for the same category), Losing Isaiah, and most recently Bee Season. She is the Naomi from the Love of Chair segment of The Electric Company, where she was an associate producer for two seasons.

Personal life

Gyllenhaal was born Naomi Achs in New York City, the daughter of doctors Ruth (née Silbowitz) and Samuel Achs.[1][2][3] She was raised in a family of "high-achieving New York Jews."[4] She attended Barnard College in New York City, graduating with a BA in English. She later achieved an MA in Developmental Psychology at Columbia.

Her first ex-husband is historian and Columbia Professor Eric Foner. Her second ex-husband is the film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, with whom she was married for 32 years and has also collaborated professionally. The couple's two children are actors Maggie and Jake.

On October 3, 2006, Naomi became a grandmother for the first time when Maggie and her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard, became parents of baby Ramona Sarsgaard, who was born in New York City.

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