In only a few short years, Maggie Gyllenhaal built a solid reputation as a talented, cerebral actress in independent films, her non-conformist flair and penchant for examining social issues offering a different voice to the young Hollywood of the early millennium. A Hollywood native, she had actually grown up with filmmaking parents – to say nothing of her actor brother Jake Gyllenhaal – but theirs was a household that valued education, intellect and liberal politics over plastic surgery. Subsequently, the self-possessed actress and her apple-cheeked, silent film star looks were a revelation