1. David Jude Heyworth Law was born on 29 December 1972 and is an English actor.
52 Facts About Jude Law
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Jude Law began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films.
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Jude Law has been awarded the Honorary Cesar and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
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David Jude Heyworth Law was born on 29 December 1972 in the London borough of Lewisham.
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Jude Law is of Welsh descent through his maternal grandmother, who had originally been "long lost" from his family because Law's mother had been put up for adoption as a child.
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Jude Law grew up in Blackheath, an area in the borough of Greenwich, with his older sister, Natasha, where he was educated, first at John Ball Primary School, then briefly at Kidbrooke School, and then at Alleyn's School.
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Jude Law began acting in 1987 with the National Youth Music Theatre, though his interest in performing began during his childhood, having been previously cast in a Saint George and the Dragon rendition as a five-year-old.
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Jude Law went on to appear as Michael in the 1994 West End rendition of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les Parents terribles, directed by Sean Mathias.
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In 1989, Jude Law received his first television role in a film based on the Beatrix Potter children's book, The Tailor of Gloucester.
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In 1994, Jude Law appeared in his first major leading film role with the British crime drama Shopping, which starred his then future wife, Sadie Frost.
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Jude Law later gained prominence for his role in the Oscar Wilde biopic Wilde, for which he won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer as well as a London Film Critics Circle Award for his portrayal of Lord Alfred Douglas, the glamorous young lover of Stephen Fry's Wilde.
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Jude Law played Steven Grlscz, a vampire and an expert seducer, in The Wisdom of Crocodiles.
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In 1999, Jude Law starred alongside Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the psychological thriller film The Talented Mr Ripley, directed by Anthony Minghella.
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Jude Law learned to play the saxophone for his role in the film, and his performance earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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The Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw commented on Jude Law giving a very stylish and charismatic performance as the exquisite Dickie, all cruelty and caprice.
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In 2002, Jude Law played a mob hitman in Sam Mendes's 1930s period drama Road to Perdition.
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Also in 2004, Jude Law portrayed the title character in Alfie, a remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, playing the role originated by Michael Caine; the remake received negative reviews and flopped at the box office.
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Jude Law later took on another of Caine's earlier roles in the 2007 film Sleuth, adapted by Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter.
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In 2007, Jude Law starred alongside Norah Jones in the romantic drama My Blueberry Nights, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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In May 2009, Jude Law returned to the London stage to portray the title role in William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre.
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Also in 2009, Jude Law became one of three actors who took over the role of actor Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
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In 2010, Jude Law appeared opposite Forest Whitaker in the dark science fiction comedy Repo Men, and starred as Dr Watson in Guy Ritchie's adaption of Sherlock Holmes, alongside Robert Downey, Jr.
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In 2009, Jude Law starred as a drag-performing supermodel in Sally Potter's film Rage.
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Jude Law portrayed blogger Alan Krumwiede in the 2011 medical thriller Contagion.
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Jude Law reprised in the role in the spin-off series The New Pope, which premiered on HBO on 13 January 2020.
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Jude Law starred in the miniseries The Third Day, which premiered on HBO on 14 September 2020.
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Jude Law portrayed Albus Dumbledore, a wizard, in the fantasy film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.
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Jude Law acted as a screenwriter in Woody Allen's A Rainy Day in New York.
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Jude Law portrayed Yon-Rogg in the 2019 Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Captain Marvel, which was a global box office success, grossing over $1 billion worldwide.
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Jude Law is set to star in the limited series The Auteur.
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Jude Law is starring in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, which premiered on Disney+ on December 2,2024.
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Jude Law was attached to play artist Roland Penrose in Lee, a World War II-era drama film directed by Ellen Kuras, but was later replaced by Alexander Skarsgard.
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In 2002, Jude Law directed a Respect for Animals anti-fur cinema commercial, titled "Fur and Against".
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In 2013, Jude Law, representing PETA, wrote a letter to the World Trade Organization in support of keeping the European Union's restrictions against the seal trade; the restriction, which had been implemented three years prior, faced opposition from the Canadian government.
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In 2011, Jude Law joined street protests against Alexander Lukashenko and his brutal crackdown on the Belarusian democracy movement.
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Also in 2006, Frost and Jude Law directed a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage.
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Jude Law travelled to Durban with Frost and their children to help children who have lost their parents to AIDS.
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Jude Law has done charity work for organizations such as Make Poverty History, the Rhys Daniels Trust, and the WAVE Trauma Centre.
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Jude Law is the chairman of the Music For Tomorrow Foundation to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans.
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Jude Law serves as an ambassador of the Prince of Wales' Children and the Arts Foundation.
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In early 2007, Jude Law shot the short film Realtime Movie Trailer at Borough Market, South London.
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Jude Law is a featured artist on Vampire Weekend's 2019 album, Father of the Bride, in which he recites Thomas Campbell's poem "Lord Ullin's Daughter" during the song of the same name.
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Since 2005, Jude Law has represented Dunhill as an "apparel ambassador" in Asia, where in 2008 he became the international face of the brand and began appearing in worldwide advertising campaigns.
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That same year, Jude Law became the face of the men's perfume, Homme Sport by Dior.
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In 2010, Jude Law purchased a property in Highgate, London, moving from Primrose Hill with his then-partner Sienna Miller.
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Jude Law's residence was at The Grove, a street known for its notable residents.
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Jude Law is the younger brother of Natasha Jude Law, an illustrator and artist based in London.
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On 2 September 1997, Jude Law married actress Sadie Frost, whom he had met in 1992 on the set of Shopping.
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On 8 July 2005, Jude Law issued a public apology to Miller for having an affair with his children's nanny.
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In 2008, Jude Law was in a brief relationship with American model Samantha Burke, who gave birth to his fourth child in September 2009.
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Jude Law's fifth child was born in 2015, to Catherine Harding.
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In September 2020, Jude Law announced the birth of the couple's first child together, who is his sixth.