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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman

Birthday: 1968-10-12 | Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Les Misérables

as    Jean Valjean

2021
Reminiscence

as    Nicolas 'Nick' Bannister

2019
Bad Education

as    Frank Tassone

2019
On Broadway

as    Self

2019
Missing Link

as    Sir Lionel Frost (voice)

2018
The Front Runner

as    Gary Hart

2017
Logan

as    Logan / Wolverine / X-24

2017
The Greatest Showman

as    P. T. Barnum

2016
Eddie the Eagle

as    Bronson Peary

2015
Pan

as    Blackbeard

2015
Dukale's Dream

as    Himself

2015
Chappie

as    Vincent Moore

2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as    Logan / Wolverine

2014
2013
Prisoners

as    Keller Dover

2013
The Wolverine

as    Logan / Wolverine

2012
Butter

as    Boyd Bolton

2012
Rise of the Guardians

as    E. Aster Bunnymund (voice)

2011
2011
Real Steel

as    Charlie Kenton

2011
2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

as    Logan / Wolverine

2009
Oh My God

as    Self

2008
Australia

as    The Drover

2008
Deception

as    Wyatt Bose