Hugh Michael Jackman was born on 12 October 1968 and is an Australian actor.
79 Facts About Hugh Jackman
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Hugh Jackman is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award.
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Hugh Jackman provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet, and Rise of the Guardians.
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On Broadway, Hugh Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz.
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Hugh Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil and Christopher John Hugh Jackman, a Cambridge-educated accountant.
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Hugh Jackman's parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the "Ten Pound Poms" immigration scheme.
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Hugh Jackman's parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage.
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Hugh Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of his parents' children to be born in Australia.
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Hugh Jackman has a younger half-sister, from his mother's remarriage.
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Hugh Jackman's parents divorced when he was eight, and Jackman remained in Australia with his father and two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackman's two sisters.
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Hugh Jackman went to 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 and became the school captain in 1986.
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Hugh Jackman spent a gap year in 1987 working at Uppingham School in England as a Physical Education teacher.
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Hugh Jackman later commented, "In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years [at university]".
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In 1996, Hugh Jackman played Gaston in the local Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.
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Hugh Jackman hosted Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight and Sydney's Carols in the Domain.
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Hugh Jackman says that his wife advised him against taking on the role, as she found it "ridiculous".
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Hugh Jackman initially studied wolves to develop his character, as he thought that Wolverine alluded to wolves.
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Wolverine was tough for Hugh Jackman to portray because he had few lines, but much emotion to convey in them.
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Hugh Jackman reprised his role in 2003's X2,2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, and the 2009 prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where Troye Sivan played the younger version of James Howlett.
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Hugh Jackman cameoed as Wolverine in 2011's X-Men: First Class.
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Hugh Jackman returned for the role of Wolverine again in 2013's The Wolverine, a stand-alone sequel taking place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, and reprised the character in the 2014 sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past and briefly in the 2016 follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse.
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In 2015, Hugh Jackman announced that the 2017 sequel to The Wolverine, Logan, was the final time that he would play the role.
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Hugh Jackman plays a Victorian English duke who accidentally time-travels to 21st-century Manhattan, where he meets Kate, a cynical advertising executive.
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Hugh Jackman hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2001.
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In 2002, Hugh Jackman sang the role of Billy Bigelow in the musical Carousel in a special concert performance at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St Luke's.
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Hugh Jackman's hosting of the 2004 Tony Awards earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performer in a Variety, Musical or Comedy program.
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Hugh Jackman was asked to consider taking on the role of James Bond before Daniel Craig was chosen to play the character, but turned it down due to other commitments.
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Alongside Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman starred in The Prestige, a mystery thriller from Christopher Nolan.
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Hugh Jackman portrayed Robert Angier, an aristocratic magician who builds up a rivalry with contemporary Alfred Borden in an attempt to one-up each other in the art of deception.
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Hugh Jackman based his portrayal of Angier on 1950s-era American magician Channing Pollock.
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Hugh Jackman portrayed three different characters in Darren Aronofsky's science-fiction film The Fountain: Tommy Creo, a neuroscientist, who is torn between his wife, Izzi, who is dying of a brain tumor, and his work at trying to cure her; Captain Tomas Creo, a Spanish conquistador in 1532 Seville; and a future astronaut, Tom, travelling to a golden nebula in an eco-spacecraft seeking to be reunited with Izzi.
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Hugh Jackman said The Fountain was his most difficult film thus far due to the physical and emotional demands of the part.
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Hugh Jackman starred in Woody Allen's 2006 film Scoop opposite Scarlett Johansson.
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Hugh Jackman rounded out 2006 with two animated films: Happy Feet, directed by George Miller, in which he voiced the part of Memphis, an emperor penguin; and Flushed Away, where Jackman supplied the voice of a rat named Roddy who ends up being flushed down a family's toilet into the London sewer system.
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In 2007, Hugh Jackman produced and guest-starred in the television musical-dramedy series Viva Laughlin, which was cancelled by CBS after two episodes.
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In 2007, Hugh Jackman became the Patron of the Actors Centre Australia where he studied, and remains so.
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In 2008, director Baz Luhrmann cast Hugh Jackman to replace Russell Crowe as the male lead in his much-publicized epic film, Australia, which co-starred Nicole Kidman.
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The movie was released in late November 2008 in Australia and the US Hugh Jackman played a tough, independent cattle drover, who reluctantly helps an English noblewoman in her quest to save both her philandering husband's Australian cattle station and the mixed race Aboriginal child she finds there.
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Hugh Jackman co-starred with Daniel Craig on Broadway at the Schoenfeld Theatre in a limited engagement of the play A Steady Rain, which ran from 10 September 2009, to 6 December 2009.
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Hugh Jackman was backed by fellow musical theatre veterans Merle Dandridge and Angel Reda.
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Hugh Jackman later returned to Broadway in a new show, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, which began performances on 25 October 2011 and concluded on 1 January 2012.
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Hugh Jackman starred as Jean Valjean in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, an adaptation of the musical.
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Hugh Jackman appeared alongside Kate Winslet in Movie 43, an ensemble comedy, in January 2013.
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Hugh Jackman was featured on "You've Got the Look", a song by comedy hip hop group The Lonely Island on their third album, The Wack Album, released in June 2013.
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Hugh Jackman returned to Broadway in the new play, The River, which ran at the Circle in the Square Theatre from October 2014 to February 2015.
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In November and December 2015, Hugh Jackman made a national tour of Australia with his show Broadway to Oz.
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Hugh Jackman performed a range of songs from Broadway musicals, from Les Miserables to a Peter Allen tribute, with his 150-piece orchestra, choir, and backup dancers.
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In 2016, Hugh Jackman played fictional ski coach, Bronson Peary, in Eddie the Eagle, which portrayed how Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping in 1988.
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Hugh Jackman had an uncredited cameo as Wolverine in the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse.
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In 2019, Hugh Jackman went on his first world tour called The Man.
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Hugh Jackman starred in the comedy drama Bad Education, opposite Allison Janney.
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Hugh Jackman returned to Broadway in a revival of The Music Man, playing Harold Hill, which began previews in December 2021 and played from February 2022 to January 2023.
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In 2005, Hugh Jackman joined with longtime assistant John Palermo to form a production company, Seed Productions, whose first project was Viva Laughlin in 2007.
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Hugh Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness on 11 April 1996, at St John's in Toorak, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.
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Hugh Jackman personally designed an engagement ring for Furness, and their wedding rings bore the Sanskrit inscription "", translated as "we dedicate our union to a greater source".
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Furness had two miscarriages, following which she and Hugh Jackman adopted two children.
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Hugh Jackman was raised Christian, attending multiple revivals during his childhood.
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In November 2013, Hugh Jackman announced he had basal-cell carcinoma removed from his nose.
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Hugh Jackman had a second carcinoma removed from his nose in May 2014, telling Associated Press that he expects to have future recurrences.
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On 18 March 2015, Hugh Jackman revealed that he had to cancel stage performances in Turkey because he had a left vocal cord haemorrhage.
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Hugh Jackman had tests taken this week as a precaution after his doctor observed symptoms which according to the doctor, "could be or could not be" basal cell carcinomas.
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Since 2013, Hugh Jackman has undergone multiple procedures to remove skin cancer.
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Hugh Jackman continued to stress the significance of wearing high-SPF sunscreen, regardless of the season.
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Hugh Jackman is a vocal supporter of Muhammad Yunus, microcredit pioneer and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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On 14 April 2009, Hugh Jackman posted on his Twitter page that he would donate $100,000 to one individual's favourite non-profit organisation.
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Jackman is a global advisor of the Global Poverty Project, for which he narrated a documentary; and he and the project's founder Hugh Evans visited the UN for the cause in 2009.
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Hugh Jackman hosted a preview of the Global Poverty Project Presentation in New York together with Donna Karan, Lisa Fox, and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness.
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Hugh Jackman narrated the 2008 documentary about global warming, The Burning Season.
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Hugh Jackman is a World Vision ambassador and participated in the climate week NYC ceremony on 21 September 2009.
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Hugh Jackman founded two cafes in Lower Manhattan, and sold the coffee online, before it became a brand for Keurig.
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Hugh Jackman founded the company after a trip to Ethiopia in 2009 for World Vision, where he met a fair trade coffee farmer named Dukale.
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In high school, Hugh Jackman played rugby union and cricket, took part in high jumping and was on the swimming team.
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Hugh Jackman has expressed an interest in football, committing his support to Norwich City FC In the United States, Jackman supports the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer, attending a match at PPL Park in June 2010.
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Hugh Jackman is a long-time fan and supporter of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, a National Rugby League club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches.
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Hugh Jackman sang the Australian national anthem at the 1999 NRL Grand Final.
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Hugh Jackman guest starred on 19 September 2011 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw, assisting Zack Ryder in a win over WWE United States Champion Dolph Ziggler by punching the champion in the jaw whilst the referee was not looking.
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Hugh Jackman has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since the age of twenty.
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Hugh Jackman now helps the David Lynch Foundation to "bring meditation to everyone from PTSD sufferers to inner-city kids".
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Hugh Jackman is the brand ambassador of R M Williams since March 2019.