Two-thousand-nine was a very good year for Maggie Gyllenhaal. In February, she appeared onstage in a New York production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya alongside Peter Sarsgaard, her longtime fiancÉand father to their three-year-old daughter. In May, the two were married in Europe. And last month, she starred in first-time director Scott Cooper's independent gem, Crazy Heart, in which she plays a young journalist who falls in love with Jeff Bridges's down-and-out former country music legend, Bad Blake, and offers the key to his salvation. Her performance helps to ground the film as well as give dimension to the character of Bad. With a director father, Stephen, and a screenwriter mother, Naomi Foner, Maggie and her brother, Jake, were children of show business. Since her much-lauded breakthrough performance as an s&m;amanuensis in 2002's Secretary, Gyllenhaal has added a number of prestigious credits to her name. Yet Hollywood couldn't contain her long. She migrated to New York, where she went to college (Columbia), and where she now lives with Sarsgaard and their child. Maggie has appeared in Vanity Fair several times, first as a Vanities opener back in 2002, and then on the 13th annual Hollywood Cover, in 2004. Maggie and I hadn’t seen each other in a while, so we chatted about girl stuff—motherhood, career vs. domestication—as well as Crazy Heart, the lure of Brooklyn, and the Oscar race.

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