Hugh Jackman

Birthday

1968-10-12

Place of Birth

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Biography

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, he landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine / Logan in the X-Men film series (2000–2017), a tenure that earned him the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero". Jackman has received a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. During his career, 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 epic musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime thriller Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Jackman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and for The Greatest Showman, he received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away (2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012), and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in Oklahoma! in 1998 and Carousel in 2002. On Broadway, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz. In 2021 he returned to the theatre as Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of The Music Man. 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. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to performing arts and to the global community.
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Reminiscence

Reminiscence

2021 5.9
Reminiscence

as Nicolas 'Nick' Bannister

2021
Missing Link

Missing Link

2019 6.7
Missing Link

as Sir Lionel Frost (voice)

2019
Logan

Logan

2017 8.1
Logan

as Logan / Wolverine / X-24

2017
Pan

Pan

2015 5.7
Pan

as Blackbeard

2015
Chappie

Chappie

2015 6.8
Chappie

as Vincent Moore

2015
Prisoners

Prisoners

2013 8.2
Prisoners

as Keller Dover

2013
The Wolverine

The Wolverine

2013 6.7
The Wolverine

as Logan / Wolverine

2013
Butter

Butter

2012 6.2
Butter

as Boyd Bolton

2012
Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians

2012 7.2
Rise of the Guardians

as E. Aster Bunnymund (voice)

2012
Real Steel

Real Steel

2011 7.1
Real Steel

as Charlie Kenton

2011
Australia

Australia

2008 6.6
Australia

as The Drover

2008
Deception

Deception

2008 6
Deception

as Wyatt Bose

2008
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