Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of

Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born ) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films ...

and the son of

Bruce Paltrow Bruce Weigert Paltrow (November 26, 1943 – October 3, 2002) was an American television and film director and producer. He was the husband of actress Blythe Danner, and the father of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and screenwriter/director Jake Paltrow ...

and Blythe Danner.

Personal life

Paltrow is the son of producer-director

and actress Blythe Danner. He had a Bar Mitzvah. He is a first cousin of actress

Katherine Moennig Katherine Sian Moennig (; born December 29, 1977) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on ''The L Word'' (2004–2009), as well as Jake Pratt on ''Young Americans'' (2000). Moennig played the role of Lena in ...

and a second cousin of former US Congresswoman

Gabby Giffords Gabrielle Dee Giffords (born June 8, 1970) is an American retired politician and gun control advocate who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives representing from January 2007 until January 2012, when she resigned ...

. In 1999, Paltrow met photographer and artist

Taryn Simon Taryn Simon (born February 4, 1975) is an American multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Currently residing and maintaining a studio practice in New York City, Simon has had work featured in the Ve ...

, whom he married in 2010; they have two children together.

Career

Paltrow's most prominent job was directing some ''

NYPD Blue ''NYPD Blue'' is an American police procedural television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble c ...

'' episodes, such as: ''Andy Appleseed'' (2003), ''Brothers Under Arms'' (2000) and ''Big Bang Theory'' (1999), following in his father's footsteps as a

television director A television director is in charge of the activities involved in making a television program or section of a program. They are generally responsible for decisions about the editorial content and creative style of a program, and ensuring the prod ...

. In 2006, he made his debut as a

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

with the movie ''

The Good Night ''The Good Night'' is a 2007 fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jake Paltrow. The film stars his sister Gwyneth Paltrow, Penélope Cruz, Martin Freeman, Danny DeVito, Simon Pegg and others. The movie takes place in London and New Y ...

'', which featured his sister Gwyneth. The movie was released at the

2007 Sundance Film Festival The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007, in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was '' Chica ...

. Paltrow has produced short films about actors for the ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

''. In 2014, he wrote, directed and produced the

dystopian A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...

sci-fi Western '' Young Ones''.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paltrow, Jake 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male screenwriters American people of Barbadian descent American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent American people of English descent American people of Pennsylvania Dutch descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent American television directors Crossroads School alumni Film directors from Los Angeles Living people Male actors from Los Angeles Screenwriters from California Writers from Los Angeles 1975 births Paltrow family