Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked with Peter Jackson.
 In 2004, Gyllenhaal returned to theater in a Los Angeles production of Tony Kushner's Homebody/ Kabul as Priscilla, the Homebody's daughter, who spends most of the play searching for her elusive mother in Kabul, Afghanistan
 Gyllenhaal, who also plays a musician, said she initially turned down the role because she did not understand it

