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.
Leta 2004 so jo povabili k članstvu Akademije umetnosti v filmu in znanosti (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).