--- --- # Watch Conan O'Brien Solve the Mystery of Jake Gyllenhaal's Height by [Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly Oct 2, 2015 1:50 PM UTC by [Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly Oct 2, 2015 1:50 PM UTC Late-night host and occasional height sleuth Conan O’Brien was on the case with public radio producer and writer Starlee Kine to crack a mystery that has long stumped the internet at large — what exactly is Jake Gyllenhaal’s height? Yes, according to _Mystery Show_ host Kine, celebrity height internet message boards have been stumped by the _Southpaw_ actor’s actual height, despite him having publicly stated it in an interview. So, hoping to settle the minds of Kine and commenters everywhere, O’Brien had Gyllenhaal appear on the show so an official measuring could be conducted.Watch O’Brien and Kine attempt to get to the bottom of this conundrum and discover why, although they may have an answer, the true height of Gyllenhaal may remain elusive for all of time._This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/02/jake-gyllenhaal-height-conan-o-brien) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) Conan O'Brien, Starlee Kine Measure Jake Gyllenhaal's Height ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4059291/jake-gyllenhaal-height/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4059291/jake-gyllenhaal-height/"},"headline":"Watch Conan O'Brien Solve the Mystery of Jake Gyllenhaal's Height","datePublished":"2015-10-02T13:50:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:30.944Z","description":"The moment of truth","url":"https://time.com/4059291/jake-gyllenhaal-height/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Conan O'brien","celebrity","Jake Gyllenhaal"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jonathon Dornbush / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4059291/jake-gyllenhaal-height/","name":"Watch Conan O'Brien Solve the Mystery of Jake Gyllenhaal's Height"}}]}] ```