Hugh Jackman
Acting
- Born:
- 1968-10-12
- Place of birth:
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Treasure Island
THE SONGS OF JOHN FARNHAM: A LIVING LEGEND – THE CELEBRATION CONCERT
Mighty Mary
The Death of Robin Hood
The Sheep Detectives
Song Sung Blue
C.E.O
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
Journey Home, David Gulpilil
The Great Entertainer
Conquering Skin Cancer
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Deadpool & Wolverine
Megafauna: What Killed Australia's Giants?
Faraway Downs
Beau geste
Koala Man
The Son
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Welcome to Wrexham
Human Resources
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Last Meals
Reminiscence
Free Guy
Marvel's Storyboards
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
On Broadway
Bad Education
Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
Missing Link
The Front Runner
Deadpool 2
Tourism Australia | Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home
Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman
The Greatest Showman
Big Mouth
Making 'Logan'
Logan
X-Men: Apocalypse
Eddie the Eagle
Molly: The Real Thing
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
Pan
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Dukale's Dream
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Hot Ones
Chappie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Chicken Shop Date
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
Double Take: Xavier & Magneto
That Sugar Film
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
Rick and Morty
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Prisoners
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
The Wolverine
Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story
Circus Halligalli
Movie 43
Les Misérables
Rise of the Guardians
Show Me the Magic
Butter
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Ink Master
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
WWE Survivor Series 2011
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Real Steel
The Jonathan Ross Show
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
X-Men: First Class
Conan
Seeds of Hope
Oh My God
Weapon X Mutant Files
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
The Thrill of the Chase: The Helicopter Sequence
C à vous
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Australia
The Burning Season
Projectorparishilton
Deception
Uncle Jonny
An Aussie Goes Bolly
Viva Laughlin
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
The Graham Norton Show
The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
The Fountain
Happy Feet
Flushed Away
The Prestige
X3: The Excitement Continues
Brett Ratner's X-Diaries
Scoop
X-Men: The Last Stand
Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World
The Reichen Show
Stories of Lost Souls
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Van Helsing
Standing Room Only
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
X2
Punk'd
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Top Gear
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Kate & Leopold
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
HBO First Look: Swordfish
Good Day Live
Swordfish
Someone Like You...
X-Men
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
The Early Show
Oklahoma!
The Making of 'Oklahoma!'
Erskineville Kings
Rove
Teen Choice Awards
Paperback Hero
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Profile of a Serial Killer
Parkinson
The View
Sydney New Year's Eve
The Daily Show
Sunset Boulevard and the Palace of Dreams
The Rat Tamer
Correlli
Halifax f.p.
The Man from Snowy River
Inside the Actors Studio
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Blue Heelers
Raw
Morgenmagazin
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Simpsons
This Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Entertainment Tonight
Wetten, dass..?
Saturday Night Live
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
60 Minutes
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Today
Bambi
Boy Band
Larrikins