
Jude Law
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Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. He has received multiple awards including a BAFTA Film Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Born and raised in London, Law started acting in theatre. After finding small roles in feature films, Law gained recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award. He found further critical and commercial success in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002). He continued to gain praise for starring in the war film Cold Mountain (2003), the drama Closer (2004), and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), gaining Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the first of these.
Law played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a younger Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. His other notable roles were in Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015); and the television series The Young Pope (2016) and The New Pope (2020).
Law has also had an accomplished career on stage, performing in several West End and Broadway productions such as Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. He received Tony Award nominations for the first and second of these.
Law's Riff Raff Entertainment, founded with business partner Ben Jackson, inked a first-look deal for both feature films and television production with New Republic Pictures on April 13, 2021.
Known For

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

The Oscars

Saturday Night Live

What If...?

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Honest Trailers

The Early Show

The Daily Show

Sherlock Holmes

Marvel Studios Legends

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Toast of London

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Loving Highsmith

Hugo

The Marvels

The Aviator

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Order

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

The Third Day

I ♥ Huckabees

A Rainy Day in New York

Captain Marvel

Spy

Contagion

Road to Perdition

Vox Lux

Rise of the Guardians

Peter Pan & Wendy

Gattaca

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The Holiday

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Black Rabbit

Side Effects

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Neo Yokio

The Rhythm Section

Anna Karenina

Wilde

Sherlock Holmes

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

360

Genius

Alfie

Black Sea

Dom Hemingway

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Cold Mountain

Repo Men

The Young Pope

The Nest

Eden

Closer

The New Pope

Enemy at the Gates

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Production Credits
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