Hugh Jackman

Known for ActingBorn 1968-10-12 (age 57)Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing it across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019. Jackman has headlined films in various genres, including the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the science fiction Real Steel (2011), the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Jackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Sunset Boulevard and the Palace of Dreams

Teen Choice Awards

On Broadway

The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan

Rick and Morty

Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act

Have You Been Paying Attention?

Bambi

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies

Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth

The Prestige

Prisoners

Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman

Dukale's Dream

The Greatest Showman

Ink Master

Welcome to Wrexham

Logan

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th

The Simpsons

The Sheep Detectives

Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey

Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story

Deadpool & Wolverine

Big Mouth

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Drive

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

X-Men: Days of Future Past

Song Sung Blue

Deadpool 2

Free Guy

Top Gear

Correlli

Inside the Actors Studio

WWE Survivor Series 2011

Rise of the Guardians

Rove

Les Misérables

X-Men: First Class

Eddie the Eagle

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

Star Wars: Greatest Moments