
Jude Law
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Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films. Law gained international 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 for Best Supporting Actor.
Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024).
In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents Terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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Known For

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

Saturday Night Live

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Emmy Awards

What If...?

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

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

Exit Through the Gift Shop

The Marvels

Loving Highsmith

The Oscars

Hugo

The Aviator

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

I ♥ Huckabees

Contagion

Spy

A Rainy Day in New York

Captain Marvel

The Holiday

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Vox Lux

Gattaca

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Peter Pan & Wendy

Rise of the Guardians

Road to Perdition

The Third Day

Anna Karenina

Genius

Black Rabbit

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Neo Yokio

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

The Rhythm Section

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Wilde

Side Effects

360

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes

Enemy at the Gates

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

The New Pope

Alfie

Closer

Eden

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Dom Hemingway

Cold Mountain

The Nest

Repo Men

Wild Things

The Order

The Young Pope

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Black Sea
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