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Hugh Michael Jackman (born October 12, 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.
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Hugh Michael Jackman (born October 12, 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.
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Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Bambi
The Simpsons
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Raw
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
Today
Rick and Morty
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Top Gear
Parkinson
The Early Show
Entertainment Tonight
Big Mouth
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Blue Heelers
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
The Jonathan Ross Show
60 Minutes
Teen Choice Awards
Welcome to Wrexham
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Human Resources
Viva Laughlin
Koala Man
Ink Master
X-Men: Apocalypse
Deadpool 2
X-Men: First Class
Once Upon a Deadpool
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Avengers: Doomsday
Tony Awards
Free Guy
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Rise of the Guardians
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Happy Feet
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie 43
Bluey: The Movie
Chappie
Australia
Eddie the Eagle
X2
Boy Band
Avengers: Secret Wars
Ferrari
Deadpool & Wolverine
Faraway Downs
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Untitled X-Men Film
Prisoners
Reminiscence
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
The Fountain
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Greatest Showman
Logan
Madden
The Wolverine
X-Men
The Son
The Prestige
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Missing Link
Flushed Away
Van Helsing
Real Steel
Bad Education
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Les Misérables
Production Credits
Deadpool & Wolverine
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
The Son
Viva Laughlin
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Deadpool 2
Drive
The Wolverine
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