The Greatest Showman
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List of Hugh Jackman performances. Jackman at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017. The following is the complete filmography and stage career of Australian actor, singer, and producer Hugh Jackman. Jackman has appeared in multiple performing venues which are represented as separate chronological categories for each performing venue.
YearTitleRole2024James Howlett / Logan / Wolverine2022Peter Miller2021Nicolas "Nick" Bannister2021Masked Player in AlleyPG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance. In 1939, an Englishwoman inherits a sprawling ranch in northern Australia and reluctantly makes a pact with a stockman to drive 2000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape. Director: Baz Luhrmann | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams, Eddie Baroo.
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, he landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine / Logan in the X-Men film series (2000–2017), a tenure that earned him the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero". Jackman has received a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. During ...
- Who Is Hugh Jackman?
- Wolverine and 'X-Men'
- 'Les Misérables'
- Stage and Hosting Work
- Early Years and Career
- 'Swordfish,' 'The Prestige,' 'Happy feet'
- 'Australia'
- 'Real Steel,' 'Butter'
- 'Pan,' 'Eddie The Eagle'
- 'The Greatest Showman'
Born in Australia in 1968, actor Hugh Jackman first earned widespread attention by portraying the mutant Wolverine in the superhero blockbuster X-Men (2000). In addition to reprising the role though numerous prequels, sequels and spinoffs, Jackman has starred in such films as The Prestige (2006) and The Greatest Showman (2017), and garnered an Osca...
To mainstream audiences, Hugh Jackman is perhaps best known as the claw-wielding mutant Wolverine, a role first portrayed in the comic book turned big screen hit X-Men (2000). The film ushered in a new wave of superhero blockbusters, with Jackman and co-stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and the rest returning for X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Sta...
In 2012, Jackman helped bring one of the most famous musicals of all time to the big screen: He starred in Les Misérables with Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and Russell Crowe. In the film, Jackman plays Jean Valjean, a former prisoner who tries to hold on to the new life he has built for himself. Crowe portrays the relentless police officer on his...
Despite his growing career in Hollywood, Jackman remained true to his stage roots. In 2004, he won a Tony Award for his lead role in Broadway's The Boy from Oz, about flamboyant Australian musician Peter Allen. Jackman also claimed an Emmy for his work as host of the 2004 Tonys, and he later hosted the Academy Awards in 2009. Despite his contributi...
Hugh Michael Jackman was born on October 12, 1968, in Sydney, Australia. The youngest of five children, Jackman was 8 when his mother left the family, and he and his siblings were largely raised by their father. He attended the exclusive Knox Grammar School and later graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney. Jackman launched his professi...
After the success of X-Men, Jackman went on to starring roles in Swordfish (2001), Kate and Leopold (2001) and Van Helsing (2004). Working with director Woody Allen, Jackman starred in the mystery Scoop (2006), with Scarlett Johansson. He then matched up against Christian Bale in the historical drama The Prestige (2006), about two rival magicians i...
In 2008, Jackman's highly anticipated work with fellow Australians Nicole Kidman and Baz Luhrmann was released. Australia tells the story of an English woman (Kidman) who travels to the Outback to find her husband, and ends up fighting for the land she inherited after his death. She is helped by a local man, played by Jackman, and the two become an...
In 2011, Jackman played a father who forges a better relationship with his son by training a fighting robot in Real Steel, and also appeared in the comedy Butter. After the immense success of Les Mis, Jackman took on a lighter role in the comedy Movie 43 (2013). The film boasted numerous big-name actors, including Halle Berry, Kate Winslet, Richard...
In 2015, Jackman stepped into the role of the villain, playing the pirate Blackbeard in the Peter Pan-inspired fantasy Pan. The following year, he starred as ski coach Bronson Peary in the biopic Eddie the Eagle, about Olympic ski jumper Michael “Eddie” Edwards.
Jackman next took on the role of famed promoter and Barnum & Bailey Circus founder P.T. Barnum for the 2017 film The Greatest Showman. Along with earning a Golden Globe nomination for his performance, Jackman's contributions to one of the flick's featured songs, "The Greatest Show," landed him on the BillboardHot 100 for the first time.
- Swordfish (2000) Role: Stanley Jobson. Director: Dominic Sena. Writer(s): Skip Woods. Distributor: Warner Bros. The scene that proves it: “Kill me and you’ll never see a dollar.”
- X2: X-Men United (2003) Role: Logan / Wolverine. Director: Bryan Singer. Writer(s): Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, David Hayter, Zak Penn (based on “X-Men” created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby)
- Kate & Leopold (2001) Role: His Grace Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten, 3rd Duke of Albany. Director: James Mangold. Writer(s): James Mangold, Steven Rogers.
- Australia (2008) Role: The Drover. Director: Baz Luhrmann. Writer(s): Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood, Stuart Beattie, Richard Flanagan. Distributor: 20 Century Fox (now 20 Century Studios)
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Hugh Jackman Active - 1934 - 2022 | Born - Oct 12, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Genres - Drama , Comedy , Adventure Overview ↓
