Hugh Jackman
Australian and English actor and singer · Australia · On the map · Actors · Born 1968 · age 58
He played Wolverine for twenty-four years, a tenure that redefined what a franchise anchor could be - and then outlasted the franchise itself, returning in 2024 to cross into the MCU long after the original X-Men films had closed.
Hugh Jackman is read about 9,496 times a day, in 97 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 4 November 2026
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The Death of Robin HoodFilm, Producer2024“The Broadway thing is full-on - we were nine months in, six days a week. When you get a week off, there’s something so miraculous about it and freeing.”In their words24 June 2024Deadpool & Wolverine: Inside the Superhero Movie That Plays Rough. Vanity Fair.
Deadpool & WolverineFilm, 2024Logan / Wolverine2022Drama League AwardAward
The SonFilm, 2022Producer2019Companion of the Order of AustraliaAwardGrammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual MediaAward
Bad EducationFilm, 2019Frank Tassone2018Time 100Award
Deadpool 2Film, 2018Logan / Wolverine (archive footage) (uncredited)2016
Eddie the EagleFilm, Bronson Peary2015
Hot OnesSeries
ChappieFilm, 2015Vincent Moore2013“Nothing has ever opened my eyes like transcendental meditation has. It makes me calm and happy, and, well, it gives me some peace and quiet in what’s a pretty chaotic life!”In their words1 July 2013Huffington PostDonostia AwardAward
Rick and MortySeries, 2013Hugh Jackman (voice)
Movie 43Film, 2013Davis (segment "The Catch")2012Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or ComedyAwardStar on Hollywood Walk of FameAward
Les MisérablesFilm, 2012Jean Valjean2011“I think every male at some point thinks about playing James Bond so it was not right then, but it may be right if it comes back.”In their words15 October 2011via www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk2009
X-Men Origins: WolverineFilm, Producer2008“This is pretty much one of those roles that had me pinching myself all the way through the shoot.”In their words11 December 2008Evening Herald
AustraliaFilm, 2008The Drover2007
The Graham Norton ShowSeries2004Drama League AwardAwardTheatre World AwardAwardTony Award for Best Actor in a MusicalAward
Van HelsingFilm, 2004Van Helsing2003
X2Film, Logan / Wolverine2002
Top GearSeries2000
X-MenFilm, Logan / Wolverine1997
The ViewSeries1994
Halifax f.p.Series, Eric Ringer1992
MorgenmagazinSeries1988
LIVE with Kelly and MarkSeries1968
60 MinutesSeriesBorn12 October 1968People around Hugh
Ian McKellen Also in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past
Patrick Stewart Also in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past
Bryan Singer Directed X-Men and X2
James Mangold Directed Logan, The Wolverine and Kate & Leopold
Simon Kinberg Produced Logan and X-Men: Days of Future Past
Lauren Shuler Donner Produced X-Men, X2 and Logan
Shawn Levy Directed Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Ryan Reynolds Produced Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine
Famke Janssen Also in X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X2
Brett Ratner Directed X-Men: The Last Stand and Movie 43
Hutch Parker Produced Logan and X-Men: Days of Future Past
Halle Berry Also in X-Men and X-Men: Days of Future Past
Matthew Vaughn Produced X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Aaron Ryder Produced The Prestige (2006)
Nicholas Hoult Also in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
James McAvoy Also in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Rebecca Romijn Also in X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand
Anna Paquin Also in X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X2
James Marsden Also in X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X2
Troye Sivan Hugh produced X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Shawn Ashmore Also in X-Men, X-Men: Days of Future Past and X2
Gavin Hood Directed X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Wolverine
Eric Fellner Produced Les Misérables and The Sheep Detectives
Tim Bevan Produced Les Misérables and The Sheep Detectives
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The Prestige 2006
Prisoners 2013
The Sheep Detectives 2026
The Greatest Showman 2017
Logan 2017
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 40
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Television 24
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Jackman signing autographs for The Boy from Oz outside Broadway in 2003
Jackman in New York Harbor in 2006
Hugh Jackman at the Sydney premiere for Real Steel in September 2011
Jackman at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con
Jackman at the Japanese premiere of his 2017 film, The Greatest Showman
Jackman performing during TMTMTS tourIn their own words 2
, I was there for three weeks before I shot a single thing. And that first day of shooting... I was so nervous, man.
It's always the suit's fault. Never the actor.
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About this person
Hugh Michael Jackman was born 12 October 1968 in Australia and started in theatre, playing Gaston in Beauty and the Beast in 1995 and earning a Laurence Olivier nomination for Oklahoma! in London in 1998. X-Men in 2000 made him Wolverine, the role that would shadow and define his career through 2024's Deadpool & Wolverine. Between those films he worked steadily - Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, Australia, Real Steel, Prisoners - and sang his way to awards: a Tony in 2004 for The Boy from Oz, an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe for Les Misérables in 2012, a Grammy for The Greatest Showman soundtrack. He hosted the Tonys four times and the Oscars once, won an Emmy for the 2005 Tony telecast, and returned to Broadway in 2021 as Harold Hill in The Music Man. In 2019 he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
