Hugh Jackman Biography

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Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor and producer. 

This biography profiles his childhood, early life, career, major works, awards, personal life, timeline and trivia.

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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters.
Hugh jackman is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige and The Fountain (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013).
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.
In Broadway theatre, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances.
Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
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.
Hugh jackman has four older siblings, and a younger half-sister, from his mother's re-marriage.
His parents divorced when he was eight, and his mother moved back to England with his two sisters.
Hugh jackman 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.
In his final year at the University of Technology, Sydney, he took a drama course to make up additional credits.
Hugh jackman played the lead in Václav Havel play, The Memorandum, and graduated in 1991.
Hugh jackman 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.
Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney.
After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts,
immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama Correlli (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness.
Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere.
An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast."
Hugh jackman appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of "Sunset Boulevard."
In 1998, he was cast as Curly in the Royal National Theatre's production of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma.
Jackman has made two feature films, the second of which, Erskineville Kings (1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. he won the part of Logan/Wolverine in the Bryan Singer- directed comic-book movie X-Men (2000).
In his spare time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.
In 1999, Jackman was cast as Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men which grossed $296,339,527 worldwide.
Hugh jackman reprised his role in X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, and the prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Hugh jackman 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.
Net Worth: $150 Million

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I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

--Hugh Jackman