
Hugh Jackman
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Biography
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.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Simpsons

Raw

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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

Honest Trailers

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

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

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

Avengers: Doomsday

Free Guy

Tony Awards

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Home Movie: The Princess Bride

Rise of the Guardians

X-Men: The Mutant Watch

Koala Man

Happy Feet

Movie 43

Chappie

Australia

X2

Faraway Downs

Avengers: Secret Wars

Ferrari

Deadpool & Wolverine

Boy Band

The Fountain

The Wolverine

The Son

Prisoners

Bad Education

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men

Van Helsing

Flushed Away

Logan

X-Men: The Last Stand

Les Misérables

Reminiscence

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine

Missing Link

Real Steel

The Prestige

Madden

The Greatest Showman
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