- Graduated from Columbia University (1999).
- Older sister of Jake Gyllenhaal.
- Her father's ancestry is Swedish, English, Swiss-German, German, Scottish, and distant Welsh and French. Her ancestor, cavalry Lieutenant Nils Gunnarsson Haal, was enobled, and changed his surname to Gyllenhaal. Maggie's mother is Ashkenazi Jewish (from a family from Latvia and Poland).
- Mother of Ramona Sarsgaard (b. 2006) and Gloria Sarsgaard (b. 2012).
- She has appeared in one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Dark Knight (2008).
- Graduated from Harvard-Westlake School (1995).
- Met her husband Peter Sarsgaard in 2002.
- Daughter of Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner.
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