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Hugh Jackman
23 FOLLOWERS • 71 CREDITS • OCT 12, 1968 • 55
Biography
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.
Known For
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The Graham Norton Show
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The Simpsons
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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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WWE Raw
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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The Oscars
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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The Daily Show
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Saturday Night Live
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Today
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Rick and Morty
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The Early Show
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Honest Trailers
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Big Mouth
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Blue Heelers
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The Jonathan Ross Show
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60 Minutes
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Teen Choice Awards
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Welcome to Wrexham
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Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
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Human Resources
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Viva Laughlin
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Ink Master
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X-Men: Apocalypse
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Deadpool 2
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X-Men: First Class
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Once Upon a Deadpool
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Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
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Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
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Free Guy
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Tony Awards
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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Movie 43
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Home Movie: The Princess Bride
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Rise of the Guardians
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Koala Man
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Happy Feet
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X-Men: The Mutant Watch
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Chappie
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X2
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X-Men: The Last Stand
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X-Men
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Ferrari
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Faraway Downs
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Australia
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Deadpool & Wolverine
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The Wolverine
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
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Madden
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The Prestige
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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The Greatest Showman
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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The Fountain
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Les Misérables
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Avengers: Secret Wars
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Prisoners
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Missing Link
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Flushed Away
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Logan
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Van Helsing
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Real Steel
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Bad Education
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