Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Jackman has amassed several screen and stage credits since the early 1990s, and has received several accolades such as a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award for his theatre career in 2012. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.On screen, Jackman is known for his breakthrough role as Wolverine in the X-Men film franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2000–2024). He played Jean Valjean in the musical Les Miserables (2012), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He also received Golden Globe nominations for the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), and the drama The Son (2022). His other film credits include the action-horror Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the animated Happy Feet (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the science fiction Real Steel (2011), the animated Rise of the Guardians (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019).Jackman's early stage credits include the Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast (1995) as Gaston and Sunset Boulevard (1996) as Joe Gillis. After playing Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! (1998) and Billy Bigelow in an Off-Broadway concert of Carousel (2002), he made his Broadway debut playing Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz (2003–2004), which won him the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. His continued Broadway roles include A Steady Rain (2009), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway (2011–2012), The River (2014), and The Music Man (2021–2023), which earned him a second Tony Award nomination. On television, Jackman has hosted many awards shows. He has earned five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, winning Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for hosting the 58th Tony Awards in 2005.