Daniels, Jeff (b. 1955), actor. The genial, innocentâlooking leading man of films and television often returns to the theatre, both in New York and at the Purple Rose Theatre, which he founded in his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan. Daniels was educated at Central Michigan University and trained at the Circle Repertory Theatre, where he first started performing in 1976. Among his stage roles of interest were the quiet gardener Jed Jenkins in 5th of July (1978), the scholar Tom researching the memoirs of a secretive old woman in The Golden Age (1984), the young Alan facing up to his estranged father in Lemon Sky (1985), and the Vietnam vet Lyman living in a California forest in Redwood Curtain (1993).
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