Hugh Jackman

Acting

Born 1968-10-12 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 177 credits Primetime Emmy Awards 1 Golden Globe Awards 1 Grammy Awards 1 Tony Awards 1 Drama League Award 2 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 Australian Dance Awards 1 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical 1

Awards

Nominated for 1 Academy Award

Academy Awards 1 nominated

2013 Best Actor Nominated Les Misérables

Primetime Emmy Awards 1 won

— Primetime Emmy Award Won

Golden Globe Awards 1 won · 1 nominated

2023 Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Nominated The Son
2012 Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Won Les Misérables

Grammy Awards 1 won

2019 Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media Won

Tony Awards 1 won

2004 Best Actor in a Musical Won

Drama League Award 2 won

2022 Drama League Award Won
2004 Drama League Award Won

star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won

— star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Won

Australian Dance Awards 1 won

— Australian Dance Awards Won

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical 1 won

— Outstanding Actor in a Musical Won

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Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing it across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019. Jackman has headlined films in various genres, including the romantic comedy 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 musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Jackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.