Hugh Jackman

Date of Birth 12 October 1968, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Birth Name Hugh Michael Jackman

Height 6' 2½" (1.89 m)

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Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian performing artist, artist, multi-instrumentalist, artist and maker. Jackman has won worldwide acknowledgment for his parts in significant movies, strikingly as superhero, period, and sentiment characters. He is best referred to for his long-running part as Wolverine in the X-Men film arrangement, and also for his lead parts in the lighthearted comedy dream Kate and Leopold (2001), the activity blood and guts movie Van Helsing (2004), the dramatization The Prestige and The Fountain (2006), the epic verifiable sentimental show Australia (2008), the film rendition of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award designation for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013.

In Broadway theater, Jackman won a Tony Award for his part in The Boy from Oz. A four-time host of the Tony Awards themselves, he won an Emmy Award for one of these appearances. Jackman likewise facilitated the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009. Jackman was conceived in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a bookkeeper. He is the most youthful of five youngsters. His folks, both English, moved to Australia in the blink of an eye before his introduction to the world. He likewise has Greek (from an incredible granddad) and Scottish (from a grandma) heritage.

Jackman has an interchanges degree with a reporting major from the University of Technology Sydney. Subsequent to graduating, he sought after dramatization at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, promptly after which he was offered a featuring part in the ABC-TV jail show Correlli (1995), inverse his future spouse Deborra-Lee Furness. A few TV visitor parts took after, as a performer and assortment compere. A refined vocalist, Jackman has featured as Gaston in the Australian generation of "Excellence and the Beast." He showed up as Joe Gillis in the Australian creation of "Dusk Boulevard." In 1998, he was given a role as Curly in the Royal National Theater's creation of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma. Jackman has made two element movies, the second, Erskineville Kings (1999), accumulated him an Australian Film Institute selection for Best Actor in 1999. As of late, he won the piece of Logan/Wolverine in the Bryan Singer-coordinated comic-book film X-Men (2000). In his extra time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.