Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Lookalike Teen Daughter Arrested
Ramona Sarsgaard, 18, was part of a protest at Columbia University.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard‘s teenage daughter was among 80 or so people arrested after a pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University, police sources have told the New York Post. Ramona Sarsgaard, 18, was done for criminal trespassing, the sources added, on Wednesday. The Columbia college student was given a desk appearance ticket and must appear before a judge, the report states. Two university security officers were injured during the protest which saw hordes of young people storm into the Butler Library on Wednesday as students prepared to sit their final exams. Gyllenhaal, 47, made her directorial debut with The Lost Daughter in 2021. She said she used to be “judgmental” of other peoples’ parenting until she had Ramona. “I would look at someone talking on a cell phone while her baby was asleep in a stroller and think: ‘How can that mother have her cell phone out?’” she told Scholastic Parent & Child in 2020. “Then you actually have a baby and you’re like: ‘She’s sleeping; I have 10 minutes; I’ll make three phone calls,”’ she shared. The actress, whose brother is fellow Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal, said she became less judgmental overall after welcoming Ramona in 2007.
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