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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.
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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.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Simpsons
WWE Raw
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Graham Norton Show
The Daily Show
Saturday Night Live
Today
Rick and Morty
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Top Gear
The Early Show
Honest Trailers
Big Mouth
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Blue Heelers
The Jonathan Ross Show
60 Minutes
Teen Choice Awards
Welcome to Wrexham
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Human Resources
Viva Laughlin
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
Free Guy
Tony Awards
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Movie 43
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Rise of the Guardians
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Happy Feet
Koala Man
Chappie
Boy Band
Faraway Downs
Deadpool & Wolverine
Avengers: Secret Wars
Australia
X2
Ferrari
The Greatest Showman
Real Steel
X-Men: The Last Stand
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Flushed Away
The Son
The Wolverine
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
X-Men
Les Misérables
The Fountain
Logan
Van Helsing
Bad Education
The Prestige
Madden
Prisoners
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Reminiscence
Missing Link
Production Credits
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Viva Laughlin
The Wolverine
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Drive
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The Son
Deadpool 2
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