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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing it across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019. 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 science fiction Real Steel (2011), the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Jackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026
The Sheep Detectives

as George Hardy

Movie
2025
Song Sung Blue

as Mike Sardina

Movie
2024
Deadpool & Wolverine

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
2021
Free Guy

as Masked Player in Alley (voice)

Movie
2017
The Greatest Showman

as P. T. Barnum

Movie
2017
Logan

as Logan / X-24

Movie
2015
Chappie

as Vincent Moore

Movie
2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
2013
Prisoners

as Keller Dover

Movie
2013
The Wolverine

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
2012
Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean

Movie
2012
Rise of the Guardians

as Bunny (voice)

Movie
2011
Real Steel

as Charlie Kenton

Movie
2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
2006
Happy Feet

as Memphis (voice)

Movie
2006
Flushed Away

as Roddy (voice)

Movie
2006
The Prestige

as Robert Angier

Movie
2006
X-Men: The Last Stand

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
2004
Van Helsing

as Van Helsing

Movie
2003
X2

as Logan / Wolverine

Movie
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The Death of Robin Hood

as Robin Hood

Movie