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  1. Jun 24, 2022 · According to The Guardian, Maggie Gyllenhaal didn't know her real first name until well into her adult life. She only found out it wasn't "Maggie" when she looked at her birth...

  2. Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal [2] [3] [4] was born in Manhattan, on November 16, 1977, [5] to Naomi Achs and Stephen Gyllenhaal. The first name on Maggie's birth certificate is "Margalit", which she did not discover until 2013, when adopting her husband's surname. [3]

  3. Aug 1, 2014 · Gyllenhaal, 36, said she stumbled across the finding while gathering the paperwork necessary to legally take the last name of her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard. When she confronted her parents ...

  4. Aug 7, 2014 · So, Maggie Gyllenhaal got a fun surprise last year when she learned—at the age of 35!—that her real first name was not Maggie, but Margalit, which is Hebrew for ‘pearl.’ (Thanks, Kveller baby name finder.) The Guardian first reported the news in July (they spelled it Margolit—which is some creative vowel usage, right? Or… a typo?

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  5. Aug 8, 2014 · Not so actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who recently —at the age of 36—discovered that her real name is Margalit. Margalit is Hebrew for pearl, and it is used in Israel as both a first and a last...

  6. Apr 7, 2018 · According to the Times of Israel, “She discovered that her name was actually Margalit when she asked her parents to find her birth certificate so she could take care of bureaucratic requirements involved in her legally taking on the last name of her husband, actor Peter Sarsgaard.”

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  8. Aug 1, 2014 · Actress told Kelly Ripa, Michael Strahan her birth certificate does not have Maggie as first name.

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