Born
12 October 1968 (57)
Place of Birth
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 B...
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.
The Death of Robin Hood
2026
The Sheep Detectives
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Song Sung Blue
2025
C.E.O
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Journey Home, David Gulpilil
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The Great Entertainer
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Conquering Skin Cancer
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Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024
The Son
2022
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
2022
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
2022
Reminiscence
2021
Free Guy
2021
On Broadway
2019
Bad Education
2019
Missing Link
2019
The Front Runner
2018
Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman
2017
The Greatest Showman
2017
Making 'Logan'
2017
Logan
2017
X-Men: Apocalypse
2016
Eddie the Eagle
2016
Molly: The Real Thing
2016
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
2015
Pan
2015
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
2015
Dukale's Dream
2015
Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
2015
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
2015
Chappie
2015
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
2014
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
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That Sugar Film
2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
Six by Sondheim
2013
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
2013
Prisoners
2013
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
2013