Personal Life
Gyllenhaal was born Naomi Achs in New York City, the daughter of doctors Ruth (born Silbowitz) and Samuel Achs. She was raised in a family of "high-achieving New York Jews". Her grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe (Russia and Latvia). She attended Barnard College in New York City, graduating with a BA in English. She later earned an MA in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University.
She has been married twice; both marriages ended in divorce. Her first husband was historian and Columbia professor Eric Foner. Her second husband was film director Stephen Gyllenhaal, to whom she was married for 32 years and with whom she has collaborated professionally. The couple's two children are actors Maggie and Jake. They have two granddaughters, Ramona (b. 2006) and Gloria (b. 2012), born to Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard.
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