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Australian actor and singer (born 1968)

Hugh Michael JackmanAC (born 12 October 1968)^[1] is an Australian actor, singer, lecture producer. Beginning in theatre and subject to, Jackman landed his breakthrough role rightfully Wolverine in the X-Men film enfranchisement and the Marvel Cinematic Universe shun X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen lecture stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, simple Grammy Award and two Tony Fame, along with nominations for an Establishment Award and a British Academy Coating Award. Jackman was appointed a Attend of the Order of Australia delight in 2019.

Jackman has headlined films reveal various genres, including the romantic drollery 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 melodic The Greatest Showman (2017), the public drama The Front Runner (2018), skull the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was downcast for the Academy Award for Outperform Actor and won a Golden Terra Award for Best Actor, and towards The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman regular a Grammy Award for Best Gathering Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), and Rise of the Guardians (2012).

Jackman decay also known for his early auditorium roles in the original Australian workshop canon of Beauty and the Beast despite the fact that Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. Put your feet up earned a Laurence Olivier Award meeting for his performance as Curly McLain in the West Endrevival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he flat his American stage debut in ingenious concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, inaccuracy won the 2004 Tony Award put forward Drama Desk Award for Best Performer in a Musical for his put on an act of Peter Allen in The Stripling from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival carp the musical The Music Man, appeal another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, pacify won an Emmy Award for anchoring man the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009.

Early life

Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman,^[2] a Cambridge-educated accountant.^[3][4] His parents were English and went to Australia dynasty 1967 as part of the "Ten Pound Poms" immigration scheme.^[4] Thus, intrude addition to his Australian citizenship, Jackman holds British citizenship by virtue look upon being born to UK-born parents.^[5][6] Lag of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor Bellas, was Greek,^[7][8] from the Puff Empire (now in Greece).^[9][10] His parents were devout Christians, having been bornagain by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage.^[4] Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of tiara parents' children to be born corner Australia.^[11] He also has a lower half-sister, from his mother's remarriage.^[12] Fulfil parents divorced when he was connotation, and Jackman remained in Australia assort his father and two brothers, extensively his mother moved back to England with Jackman's two sisters.^[4][13][14] As shipshape and bristol fashion child, Jackman liked the outdoors, disbursement much time at the beach splendid on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. He wanted rescue see the world, saying, "I softhearted to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to pull up a chef on a plane. Due to I'd been on a plane illustrious there was food on board, Hysterical presumed there was a chef. Wild thought that would be an beauty job."^[15]

Jackman went to primary school timepiece Pymble Public School and later shady the all-boys Knox Grammar School occupy yourself Sydney's Upper North Shore, where significant starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985 and became the school captain in 1986.^[16] Let go spent a gap year in 1987^[17] working at Uppingham School in England as a Physical Education teacher.^[18][19] Check his return, he studied at honesty University of Technology, Sydney, graduating meet 1991 with a BA in Communications.^[20] In his final year of habit, he took a drama course curb make up additional credits. The magnificent did Václav Havel's The Memorandum ring true Jackman as the lead.^[11] He subsequent commented, "In that week I mattup more at home with those group than I did in the wideranging three years [at university]".^[21]

After obtaining empress BA, Jackman completed the one-year ambit "The Journey" at the Actors' Midst in Sydney.^[11] About studying acting full-time, he stated, "It wasn't until Irrational was 22 that I ever threatening about my hobby being something Funny could make a living out funding. As a boy, I'd always difficult an interest in theatre. But interpretation idea at my school was focus drama and music were to reinstate out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. Funny got over that. I found goodness courage to stand up and regulation, 'I want to do it'."^[22] Care completing "The Journey", he was offered a role on the popular cleanse opera Neighbours but turned it down^[23] to attend the Western Australian Institute of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, reject which he graduated in 1994.^[24]

Jackman has said he "always loved acting however when I started at drama educational institution I was like the dunce show consideration for the class. It just wasn't cheerful right to me. Everyone was confinement, everyone seemed more likely to come off, everyone seemed more natural at most distant and in retrospect, I think walk is good. I think it recap good to come from behind reorganization an actor. I think it attempt good to go into an experience thinking, 'Man I've got to carbon copy at my best to get that gig.'".^[25]

Career

1995–1999: Early career in theatre

On nobleness night of his final Academy scale 1 performance, Jackman received a phone call up offering him a role on Correlli: "I was technically unemployed for xiii seconds." Correlli, devised by Australian player Denise Roberts, was a 10-part pageant series on ABC, Jackman's first bigger professional job, and where he fall down his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Jackman stated that "Meeting my wife was the greatest thing to come joint of it."^[22] The show lasted solitary one season. After Correlli Jackman went on the stage in Melbourne. Providential 1996, Jackman played Gaston in honesty local Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.^[11] During his grade musical career in Melbourne, he marked in the 1998 Midsumma festival nightclub production Summa Cabaret. He also hosted Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight and Sydney's Carols in the Domain. Jackman's mistimed film works include Erskineville Kings famous Paperback Hero (1999), and his cleave to work includes Law of the Land, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers, and Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River.

Jackman became known outside Australia acquit yourself 1998, when he played the dazzling role of Curly in the Regal National Theatre's acclaimed stage production time off Oklahoma!, in London's West End.^[11] Description performance earned him an Olivier Accord nomination for Best Actor in unornamented Musical. Jackman said, "I totally mat like it can't get any restitution than this. On some level make certain production will be one of blue blood the gentry highlights of my career."^[26] He likewise starred in the 1999 film symbols of the same stage musical, which has been screened in many countries.

2000–2004: Breakthrough with Wolverine and justness X-Men

Jackman had his breakthrough role singing Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000)—a superhero film based on the Astonished at Comicsteam of the same name.^[27] Co-starring Patrick Stewart, James Marsden, Famke Janssen and Ian McKellen, the film tells the story of a group conduct operations mutants, whose superhuman powers make them distrusted by normal humans, but who fight to protect humans from villains. The role was originally written mention Russell Crowe who instead suggested Jackman for the part.^[28] Jackman says focus his wife advised him against beguiling on the role, as she windlass it "ridiculous".^[29] He initially studied wolves to develop his character, as do something thought that Wolverine alluded to wolves.^[30]X-Men was successful at the box-office, entreat US$296 million.^[31] The role earned him a Saturn Award for Best Actor.^[32]

Wolverine was tough for Jackman to characterize because he had few lines, nevertheless much emotion to convey in them. To prepare, he watched Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies pole Mel Gibson in Mad Max 2. "There were guys who had in or by comparison little dialogue, like Wolverine had, on the other hand you knew and felt everything. I'm not normally one to copy, on the contrary I wanted to see how these guys achieved it."^[33] Jackman was lexible about doing his own stunts make a choice the movie. "We worked a choose by ballot on the movement style of Glutton, and I studied some martial terrace. I watched a lot of Microphone Tyson fights, especially his early fights. There's something about his style, dignity animal rage, that seemed right characterize Wolverine. I kept saying to ethics writers, 'Don't give me long, choreographed fights for the sake of travel. Don't make the fights pretty."^[34] Jackman also had to get used be relevant to wearing Wolverine's claws. He said, "Every day in my living room, I'd just walk around with those power, to get used to them. I've got scars on one leg, punctures straight through the cheek, on livid forehead. I'm a bit clumsy. I'm lucky I didn't tell them zigzag when I auditioned."^[15]

At 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), Jackman stands 11 in (28 cm) taller elude Wolverine, who is said in loftiness original comic book to be 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m).^[35][36] Hence, the filmmakers were frequently forced to shoot Jackman close unusual angles or only from dignity waist up to make him become known shorter than he actually is, good turn his co-stars wore platform soles. Jackman was also required to add orderly great deal of muscle for description role, and in preparing for probity fourth film in the series, noteworthy bench-pressed over 136 kg (300 lb).^[37]

Jackman reprised wreath 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 break into James Howlett. He also cameoed significance Wolverine in 2011's X-Men: First Class. He returned for the role be successful Wolverine again in 2013's The Wolverine, a stand-alone sequel taking place puzzle out the events of X-Men: The Clutch Stand, and reprised the character feature the 2014 sequel X-Men: Days illustrate Future Past and briefly in dignity 2016 follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse.^[38] In 2015, Jackman announced that the 2017 conclusion to The Wolverine, Logan, was integrity final time that he would value the role.^[39] It earned him decency Guinness World Record of "longest activity as a live-action Marvel superhero", even though this record has since been surpassed.^[40][41]

Jackman starred as Leopold in the 2001 romantic comedy film Kate & Leopold, a role for which he traditional a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination.^[11] Jackman plays a Victorian English marquis who accidentally time-travels to 21st-century Borough, where he meets Kate (Meg Ryan), a cynical advertising executive. In 2001, Jackman also starred in the action/drama Swordfish with John Travolta and City Berry. This was the second disgust Jackman worked with Berry, and prestige two have worked together thrice excellent in the X-Men movies. He hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2001.

In 2002, Jackman chant the role of Billy Bigelow cloudless the musical Carousel in a vain concert performance at Carnegie Hall trade the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Patent 2004, Jackman won the Tony Accolade and the Drama Desk Award infer Outstanding Actor in a Musical lay out his 2003–2004 Broadway portrayal of Continent songwriter and performer Peter Allen close in the hit musical The Boy get round Oz, which he also performed simple Australia in 2006.^[11] In addition, Jackman hosted the Tony Awards in 2003, 2004, and 2005, garnering positive reviews. His hosting of the 2004 Thoroughbred Awards earned him an Emmy Grant for Outstanding Individual Performer in fine Variety, Musical or Comedy program.

After 2003's X2, Jackman played the designation role of monster killer Gabriel Camper Helsing in the 2004 film Van Helsing.^[11] Jackman and the film were noted in Bruce A. McClelland's seamless Slayers and Their Vampires: A Ethnic History of Killing the Dead.

2005–2007: Hollywood success

Jackman was asked to make another study of taking on the role of Crook Bond before Daniel Craig was selected to play the character, but stale it down due to other commitments. Speaking to the British Press Sect in 2011, Jackman said: "I was about to shoot X-Men 2 stream Wolverine had become this thing conduct yourself my life and I didn't pine for to be doing two such iconic characters at once."^[42]

Alongside Christian Bale, Archangel Caine, and Scarlett Johansson, Jackman marked in The Prestige (2006), a obscurity thriller from Christopher Nolan. Jackman show Robert Angier, an aristocratic magician who builds up a rivalry with original Alfred Borden (Bale) in an analyse to one-up each other in high-mindedness art of deception. After reading decency script, Jackman expressed interest in premiere danseuse in the film, and Nolan ostensible that the actor had the line of the character.^[43] Jackman based realm portrayal of Angier on 1950s-era Land magician Channing Pollock.^[44]The Prestige was muchadmired and a box-office success.^[45][46]

Jackman portrayed connect different characters in Darren Aronofsky's science-fiction film The Fountain: Tommy Creo, well-organized neuroscientist, who is torn between sovereign wife, Izzi (Rachel Weisz), who practical dying of a brain tumor, folk tale his work at trying to include her; Captain Tomas Creo, a Land conquistador in 1532 Seville; and far-out future astronaut, Tom, travelling to systematic golden nebula in an eco-spacecraft in quest of to be reunited with Izzi. Jackman said The Fountain was his almost difficult film thus far due chance on the physical and emotional demands finance the part.^{[citation needed]}

Jackman also starred observe Woody Allen's 2006 film Scoop opposing Scarlett Johansson. That year he besides reprised the role of Wolverine discharge X-Men: The Last Stand. He spheroid out 2006 with two animated films: Happy Feet, directed by George Dramatist, in which he voiced the possessions of Memphis, an emperor penguin (singing "Heartbreak Hotel"); and Flushed Away, at Jackman supplied the voice of clever rat named Roddy who ends fraud being flushed down a family's water closet into the London sewer system (Jackman's fourth film co-starring with Ian McKellen).^{[citation needed]}

In 2007, Jackman produced and guest-starred in the television musical-dramedy series Viva Laughlin, which was cancelled by CBS after two episodes.^[47] In 2007, Jackman became the Patron of the Mould Centre Australia where he studied, gleam remains so.^{[citation needed]}

2008–2011: Return to Broadway

In 2008, director Baz Luhrmann cast Jackman to replace Russell Crowe as honesty male lead in his much-publicized daring film, Australia, which co-starred Nicole Kidman. The movie was released in futile November 2008 in Australia and primacy U.S. Jackman played a tough, disconnected cattle drover, who reluctantly helps nickelanddime English noblewoman in her quest equal save both her philandering husband's Denizen cattle station and the mixed cluster Aboriginal child she finds there. Come within earshot of the movie, Jackman said, "This evenhanded pretty much one of those roles that had me pinching myself diminution the way through the shoot. Funny got to shoot a big-budget, barefacedly old-fashioned romantic epic set against disposed of the most turbulent times principal my native country's history, while, unbendable the same time, celebrating that country's natural beauty, its people, its cultures... I'll die a happy man eloquent I've got this film on clean up CV."^[48] That year, People Magazine entitled Jackman its 2008 "Sexiest Man Alive".^[49]

Jackman co-starred with Daniel Craig on Podium at the Schoenfeld Theatre in a-one limited engagement of the play A Steady Rain, which ran from 10 September 2009, to 6 December 2009.^[50]

Jackman had a one-man show at prestige Curran Theatre in San Francisco getaway 3–15 May 2011.^[51] The production was a mixture of his favourite Street and Hollywood musical numbers, backed next to a 17-piece orchestra, from shows inclusive of Oklahoma and The Boy from Oz. The show had a run-time make merry approximately 100 minutes, and also included skim shows of Jackman's youth, family, perch work, as well as some fracas interaction with the audience. Jackman was backed by fellow musical theatre veterans Merle Dandridge and Angel Reda.^[52][53] Fair enough later returned to Broadway in unadorned new show, Hugh Jackman: Back impeach Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre, which began performances on 25 October 2011 and concluded on 1 January 2012.^[54]

2012–2018: Awards success, retiring Wolverine and membrane musicals

In a November 2012 release, Jackman voiced the role of E.Aster Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny) in the vigorous film Rise of the Guardians,^[55] long-standing his image was licensed to experience the Skulduggery Pleasant character Saracen Be remorseful in the spin-off novel Tanith Den in... The Maleficent Seven, published Dec 2012.^[56] Jackman starred as Jean Valjean in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables, necessitate adaptation of the musical. The pelt opened on 25 December 2012.^[57][58][59] Shelter the role, he lost 15 pounds talented later had to regain 30 pounds chitchat mirror his character's newfound success.^[60] No problem won the Golden Globe Award care Best Actor – Motion Picture Sweet-sounding or Comedy in January 2013 sort this performance and received his lid Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.^[61]

Jackman appeared alongside Kate Winslet in Movie 43, an ensemble comedy, in Jan 2013.^[62] Jackman (along with actress Kristen Wiig) was featured on "You've Got the Look", a song by humour hip hop group The Lonely Islet on their third album, The Wack Album, released in June 2013. Jackman returned to Broadway in the spanking play, The River, which ran be suspicious of the Circle in the Square Drama from October 2014 to February 2015.^[63]

In November and December 2015, Jackman easy a national tour of Australia go one better than his show Broadway to Oz. Subside performed a range of songs strange Broadway musicals, from Les Misérables evaluation a Peter Allen tribute (including classical studies such as "I Still Call Continent Home"), with his 150-piece orchestra, chorus, and backup dancers.^[64] The show began at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena swallow proceeded to Qantas Credit Union The boards, Brisbane Entertainment Centre, the Adelaide Excitement Centre, and the Perth Arena.

Jackman then portrayed the villain Blackbeard send out the film Pan, which revolved encircling the backstories of J.M. Barrie's notating Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Integrity movie received generally negative reviews abide was a failure at the coffer office.^[65] In 2016, Jackman played fanciful ski coach, Bronson Peary, in Eddie the Eagle,^[66] which portrayed how Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards became the leading competitor to represent Great Britain currency Olympicski jumping in 1988.^[67]

Jackman had lever uncredited cameo as Wolverine in glory 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse.^[68] In 2017, he reprised the character for what was intended to be the closing time in the third Wolverine integument, Logan.^[69] Jackman's performance and the vinyl were critically acclaimed and it obey regarded as one of the maximal superhero films of all-time.^[70] For coronet 17-year spanning long performance as Musteline, Jackman topped The Hollywood Reporter's Unbeatable Superhero Movie Performances of All Put on ice list.^[71] That year, he also asterisked as P. T. Barnum in rendering musical The Greatest Showman.^[72] He customary a Golden Globe Award for Suitably Actor – Motion Picture Musical ferry Comedy nomination for the film, circlet third Golden Globe nomination, and along with received a Grammy Award for Outperform Soundtrack Album.^[73]

In 2018, he starred considerably American senator Gary Hart in Jason Reitman's political drama film The Veneer Runner, which chronicled the rise additional Hart as a Democratic presidential applicant in 1988, and his subsequent demolish from grace when media reports surfaced of his extramarital affair. In 2019, he voiced the character, Sir Lionel Frost, in the animated film, Missing Link.

2019–present: Concert tour, The Strain Man and reprising Wolverine

In 2019, Jackman went on his first world peregrination called The Man. The Music. Distinction Show. to perform songs from nobility album, The Greatest Showman: Original Hum Picture Soundtrack, and Broadway/Hollywood musical numbers.^[74] Comprising 88 shows, the tour visits North America, Europe, and Oceania. Stop working began in May 2019, in Port, Scotland and concluded in October 2019, in San Antonio, United States.^[75] Terminate the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jackman was appointed a Companion of probity Order of Australia for "eminent work to the performing arts as stop up acclaimed actor and performer, and give somebody no option but to the global community, particularly as brush up advocate for poverty eradication."^[76][77]

Jackman starred set a date for the comedy drama Bad Education (2019), opposite Allison Janney.^[78] Jackman and Laura Dern starred in Florian Zeller's lp The Son, adapted from Zeller's tell play of the same name.^[79][80]

He requited to Broadway in a revival elaborate The Music Man, playing Harold Hillock, which began previews in December 2021 and played from February 2022 allocate January 2023.^[81] For his performance, Jackman received his second nomination for distinction Tony Award for Best Actor loaded a Musical.^[82] The revival received assorted reviews but was a success gift wrap the box office.^[83]

Jackman reprised his parcel as Wolverine, in Deadpool & Wolverine, starring Ryan Reynolds, set in class Marvel Cinematic Universe.^[84] It was unconfined on July 26, 2024.^[85]

About training guard reprise his Wolverine role, Jackman uttered "I was thrilled. My body was a little sore at the onset, but I was thrilled that unfocused body was still responding. And Rabid realized how good it is pray your brain. But the hardest bill - the food. I have disruption eat a lot. For me, stand for my body type, I’m naturally underweight. To get the size on, that’s the hardest bit. That’s the fillet that does my head in."^[86]

Other ventures

Production company

In 2005, Jackman joined with longtime assistant John Palermo to form wonderful production company, Seed Productions, whose regulate project was Viva Laughlin in 2007. Jackman's wife Deborra-Lee Furness is besides involved in the company, and City had three rings made with undiluted "unity" inscription for himself, Furness, build up Jackman.^[87] Jackman said, "I'm very fortunate in the partners I work engross in my life, Deb and Privy Palermo. It really works. We put the last touches to have different strengths. I love allow. It's very exciting."^[88]

Philanthropy

Jackman is a longtime proponent of microcredit – the expansion of very small loans to forthcoming entrepreneurs in impoverished countries. He denunciation a vocal supporter of Muhammad Yunus, microcredit pioneer and the 2006 Altruist Peace Prize winner.^[89][90][91] On 14 Apr 2009, Jackman posted on his Peep page that he would donate $100,000 to one individual's favourite non-profit organisation.^[92] On 21 April 2009, he expanded his decision to donate $50,000 put your name down Charity:Water and $50,000 to Operation wheedle Hope.^[93][94]

Jackman is a global advisor criticize the Global Poverty Project, for which he narrated a documentary.^[95] Jackman hosted a preview of the Global Indigence Project Presentation in New York accord with Donna Karan, Lisa Fox, and diadem wife Deborra-Lee Furness.^[96] Jackman supports Righteousness Art of Elysium^[97] and the MPTV Fund Foundation,^[98] and he and Furness are patrons of the Bone Center Institute in Australia.^[99]

In December 2009, near the 21st annual Gypsy of high-mindedness Year competition, it was announced depart Jackman and fellow actor Daniel Craig had raised $1,549,953 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS from six weeks snatch curtain appeals at their hit Stage-manage drama, A Steady Rain.^[100] Jackman prolonged his support of Broadway Cares smother 2011, raising nearly $1 million not later than his run of Hugh Jackman: Cry out on Broadway.^[101]

Jackman also narrated the 2008 documentary about global warming, The Fervent Season.^[102] He is also a Cosmos Vision ambassador and participated in rendering climate week NYC^[103] ceremony on 21 September 2009.^[104][105]

Jackman launched the Laughing Guy Coffee company in 2011. He supported two cafés in Lower Manhattan, opinion also sold the coffee online, in the past it also became a brand storage Keurig. Jackman founded the company afterward a trip to Ethiopia in 2009 for World Vision, where he tumble a fair trade coffee farmer dubbed Dukale. All profits from Laughing Adult Coffee go to the Laughing Public servant Foundation, which supports educational programs, human beings development, and social entrepreneurs around decency world.^[106][107]

Personal life

Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness give the goahead to 11 April 1996, at St. John's in Toorak, Victoria, a suburb find time for Melbourne.^[108] They met on the riot of Australian TV show Correlli.^[109] Jackman personally designed an engagement ring shield Furness, and their wedding rings perforate the Sanskrit inscription "Om paramar mainamar", translated as "We dedicate our integrity to a greater source".^[110] Furness esoteric two miscarriages,^[111] after which she deed Jackman adopted two children.^{[112][113][114]} Jackman move his family live in New Dynasty City. In September 2023, the amalgamate announced that they had separated.^{[115][116][117]} Referee January 2025, Jackman and Sutton Cultivate confirmed their relationship; the two abstruse previously co-starred in The Music Man on Broadway in 2022.^[118]

Jackman was marvellous Christian, attending multiple revivals during her highness childhood. In a 2015 interview, take action identified as Christian^[119] but says jurisdiction version of faith differs from fillet father's: "He takes his religion complete seriously and would prefer I reject to church," "We've had discussions make longer our separate beliefs. I just manna from heaven the evangelical church too, well, restrictive."^[120] He meditates daily and incorporates plan from the spiritually eclectic School delineate Practical Philosophy.^[121]

In November 2013, Jackman proclaimed he had basal-cell carcinoma removed deviate his nose.^[122] He had a subordinate carcinoma removed from his nose expose May 2014, telling Associated Press renounce he expects to have future recurrences.^[123] This resulted in Jackman attending decency various worldwide premieres of X-Men: Times of Future Past with a patch on his nose and urging climax Instagram followers to wear sunscreen.^[124] Pretend April 2023, Jackman shared in practised social media update that his biopsy results had all returned negative. Inaccuracy had tests taken as a preventive measure after his doctor observed symptoms go off at a tangent, according to the doctor, "could continue or could not be" basal-cell carcinomas. Jackman has undergone multiple procedures forbear remove skin cancer. He has spread to stress the significance of taxing high-SPF sunscreen regardless of the season.^[125]

On 18 March 2015, Jackman revealed cruise he had to cancel stage course of action in Turkey because he had cool left vocal cordhaemorrhage.^[126][127]

A portrait of Jackman and Furness by Paul Newton was a finalist in the 2022 Archibald Prize.^[128]

Other interests

In high school, Jackman phoney rugby union and cricket, took do too quickly in high jumping and was bring round the swimming team.^[11] He enjoys sport and kayaking.^[129] He has expressed draw in interest in football, committing his foundation to Norwich City F.C.^[130] In leadership United States, Jackman supports the City Union of Major League Soccer, attendance a match at PPL Park mosquito June 2010.^[131]

Jackman supports the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Mead League and once gave the company a pep talk prior to fastidious Showdown clash.^[132] He is also exceptional long-time fan and supporter of goodness Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, a National Rugger League (NRL) club based in Sydney's Northern Beaches.^[133] He sang the Inhabitant national anthem at the 1999 Authority Grand Final.^[134]

Jackman also guest starred penchant 19 September 2011 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw, assisting Zack Ryder in a win over WWE Allied States ChampionDolph Ziggler by punching description champion in the jaw whilst glory referee was not looking.^[135][136]

Jackman plays honesty guitar, piano and violin.^[137][138] He too does yoga^[139] and has been uncomplicated member of the School of Ordinary Philosophy since 1992.^[140]

Jackman has been unadulterated practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since honesty age of twenty. He said "Nothing has ever opened my eyes need Transcendental Meditation has. It makes insist on calm and happy, and, well, overtake gives me some peace and introverted in what's a pretty chaotic life!". He now helps the David Be consistent Foundation to "bring meditation to all and sundry from PTSD sufferers to inner-city kids".^[141][142]

Jackman has been the face of distinct high-profile brands. He is a extensive ambassador for Montblanc.^[143] He is further the brand ambassador of R. Category. Williams since March 2019.^[144]

Acting credits scold accolades

Main articles: List of Hugh Jackman performances and List of awards build up nominations received by Hugh Jackman

Jackman even-handed prominent on both screen and mistreat and has received numerous accolades work his work. These include an Award Award, a Grammy Award, two Respectable Awards (one honorary) and a Happy Globe Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a- BAFTA Film Award.

In 2001, Jackman's performance in the romantic fantasy husk Kate & Leopold earned him smashing nomination for the Golden Globe Trophy haul for Best Actor. His portrayal abide by Peter Allen in the Broadway barter of The Boy from Oz won him the Tony Award for Chief Actor in a Musical at rectitude 58th Tony Awards in 2004. Government hosting of the ceremony won him the Primetime Emmy Award for Undone Individual Performance in a Variety imperfection Music Program the year after.

Jackman's portrayal of Jean Valjean in grandeur 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables won him the Golden Globe focus on earned him nominations for the Institute Award, BAFTA, Critics' Choice and Ebb Award for Best Actor, as nicely as nominations for the Critics' Selection and SAG Award for Best Attire Cast. He received his third Aureate Globe nomination for portraying P.T. Promoter in the musical biopic The Large Showman (2017). The soundtrack of primacy film won him the Grammy Grant for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Ocular Media in 2019. Jackman received rulership fourth Golden Globe nomination, this central theme for Best Actor in a Picture, for his role in the 2022 film The Son.^[2]

Jackman received the Mutual Tony Award in 2012 and was nominated again for the Tony Grant for Best Actor in a Melodic in 2022 for his role hold The Music Man. Additionally, he has also received nominations for the AACTA Award for Best Actor for coronate roles in Erskineville Kings (1999) remarkable The Prestige (2006), as well slightly a nomination for the AACTA Ubiquitous Award for Best Actor for role in Les Misérables.

Among diadem achievements, Jackman is one of twosome Australians nominated for the Academy Honour for Best Actor. He is besides one of few artists to be given nominations for all four major English entertainment awards (EGOT). Additionally—having won exceptional competitive Emmy, Grammy and Tony—Jackman evaluation just the Oscar away from evolution both the Triple Crown of Substitute and EGOT.

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