Résumé

Hugh Jackman

An Australian actor, singer, and producer

Filmography
The Prestige (2006)
(Mystery, Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
(Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action)
X: First Class (2011)
(Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action)
X-Men (2000)
(Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi)
Prisoners (2013)
(Mystery, Drama, Crime, Thriller)
X2 (2003)
(Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
(Action, Fantasy, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
(Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller)
About

12 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About 'The Wolverine' Star

  • Before he became one of Hollywood's most ruggedly handsome stars he worked as a gas station attendant and a birthday party clown.
  • Jackman met his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, while co-starring in the Australian TV series Correlli.
  • Jackman’s wife is 13 years his senior.
  • Jackman and his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, adopted their two kids, Ava Eliot Jackman and Oscar Maximillian Jackman.
  • He Absolutely Loves George Clooney

    “He’s funny, he’s naughty and he’s kind of cheeky. And he just looks like fun,” Jackman said about Clooney. Who could blame him?

    Hugh Jackman
  • He Sang at Nicole Kidman’s Wedding
  • Jackman holds the world record for most superhero film appearances for his role of Logan/Wolverine. He’s also the only actor to star in all chapters of the X-Men franchise.
  • To build his body for The Wolverine, Hugh Jackman followed a brutal nutrition plan recommended to him by Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. Besides vigorous training, he had to consume 6,000 calories per day. As a comparison, average sedentary men need between 2,000 to 2,600 calories per day.
  • He Passed on Casino Royale. Although there’s no doubt Jackman would make an awesome James Bond, he turned down the role of the British spy in the mid-2000s.
  • He was a last-minute addition to the X-Men (2000) cast. Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine, but Mission: Impossible II (2000) required two extra months of shooting.
  • While filming Van Helsing (2004), he accidentally broke an extra’s hand.
  • Doesn’t smoke in real life. He says he finds it horrible to smoke in movies.
Contacts

HughJackman

realhughjackman

+hughjackman

thehughjackman

Hugh-jackman

Hughjackman

Intro

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in a variety of film genres.

He is known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in films such as the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the magic-themed drama The Prestige (2006), the epic fantasy drama The Fountain (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), and the musical The Greatest Showman (2017).

His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013.

Timeline
12.10.68 Jackman was born on 12 October 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-trained accountant. His parents were English and had migrated to Australia in 1967.
1985 He attended primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School on Sydney's Upper North Shore, where he starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985.
1991 In his final year at the University of Technology, Sydney, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. He played the lead in Václav Havel play, The Memorandum, and graduated in 1991.
1994 He completed the one-year course ‘The Journey’ at the Actors' Centre in Sydney and attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, from which he graduated in 1994.
1995 Jackman got his first professional job in Correlli, an Australian television 10 -part series first broadcast by ABC TV in 1995. It starred Deborra-Lee Furness as prison psychologist Louisa Correlli.
1996 Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness in 1996 after they met on the set of Australian TV show Correlli. Furness had two miscarriages, following which the couple adopted two children - Oscar Maximillian and Ava Eliot.
1998 Playing the leading role of Curly in the Royal National Theatre's acclaimed stage production of Oklahoma! in London's West End in 1998, he earned an Olivier Award nomination and recognition outside Australia.
1999 In 1999, Jackman was cast as Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men which grossed $296,339,527 worldwide. He reprised his role in X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, and the prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
2001 He starred as Leopold, a Victorian English duke who accidentally time-travels to 21st-century Manhattan, where he meets Kate (Meg Ryan), a cynical advertising executive, in the 2001 romantic comedy film, Kate & Leopold.
2004 In 2004, he won many accolades for his Broadway portrayal of Australian songwriter-performer Peter Allen in the hit musical, The Boy from Oz, and co-starred with Daniel Craig in the play A Steady Rain.
2004 He won two Tony Awards - Special Tony Award category Actors' Equity Association 2004 and also for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for The Boy from Oz.
2005 In 2005, the actor joined with longtime assistant John Palermo to form a production company, Seed Productions, aiming to mount modest-budget films to harness local talent in Jackman's home country.
2005 In 2005 he won an Emmy in the category Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for The 58th Annual Tony Awards which he presented the previous year.
2006 He starred in the 2006 film ‘The Prestige’, directed by Christopher Nolan and co-starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson. He portrayed Robert Angier, a magician’ trying to outclass a contemporary Alfred Borden.
2008 In 2008, director Baz Luhrmann cast him in his much-publicized epic film, Australia, which co-starred Nicole Kidman. He played a tough, independent cattle drover, who reluctantly helps an English noblewoman.
2011 He had a one-man show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco from 3–15 May 2011.The production was a mixture of his favorite Broadway and Hollywood musical numbers, backed by a 17-piece orchestra.
2012 He was presented the 2,487th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame accompanied by his family as well as his "Les Misérables" director Tom Hooper and co-stars Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried in 2012.
2013 In 2013, Jackman won the Golden Globe in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical category for Les Miserables. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role too.
Gallery