BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Hugh Michael Jackman
Description: Vocalist, Dancer, Actor, Australian
Known For: Musicals
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Easy Listening
Location: NSW, Australia
Date Born: 12th October 1968
Location Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Photo Comments: The image is in the public domain.
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the magic-themed drama The Prestige (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), the sci-fi sports drama Real Steel (2011), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), and the thriller Prisoners (2013). His work in Les Misérables earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy in 2013. In theater, he won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
A four-time host of the Tony Awards, winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-trained accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the “Ten Pound Poms” immigration. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Greek.His parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage. Jackman has four older siblings, and was the second of his parents’ children to be born in Australia. He also has a younger half-sister, from his mother’s remarriage. His parents divorced when he was eight, and Jackman remained in Australia with his father and Jackman’s two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackman’s two sisters. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending a lot of time at the beach and on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. He wanted to see the world: “I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I’d been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job.”
Jackman went to primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, where he starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985, and became the school captain in 1986. Following graduation, he spent a gap year working at Uppingham School in England. On his return, he studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, graduating in 1991 with a BA in Communications. In his final year of university, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Václav Havel’s The Memorandum with Jackman as the lead. He later commented, “In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years at university”.
After obtaining his BA, Jackman completed the one-year course “The Journey” at the Actors’ Centre in Sydney. About studying acting full-time, he stated, “It wasn’t until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a boy, I’d always had an interest in theatre. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn’t what one did for a living. I got over that. I found the courage to stand up and say, ‘I want to do it’.” After completing “The Journey”, he was offered a role on the popular soap opera Neighbours but turned it down to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, from which he graduated in 1994.
Jackman has said he “always loved acting but when I started at drama school I was like the dunce of the class. It just wasn’t coming right to me. Everyone was cooler, everyone seemed more likely to succeed, everyone seemed more natural at it and in retrospect I think that is good. I think it is good to come from behind as an actor. I think it is good to go into an audition thinking ‘Man I’ve got to be at my best to get this gig.'”
Early work
On the night of his final Academy graduation performance, Jackman received a phone call offering him a role on Correlli: “I was technically unemployed for thirteen seconds.” Correlli, devised by Australian actress Denise Roberts, was a 10-part drama series on ABC, Jackman’s first major professional job, and where he met his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness: “Meeting my wife was the greatest thing to come out of it.” The show lasted only one season.
After Correlli Jackman went on the stage in Melbourne. In 1996, Jackman played Gaston in the local Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. During his stage musical career in Melbourne, he starred in the 1998 Midsumma festival cabaret production Summa Cabaret. He also hosted Melbourne’s Carols by Candlelight and Sydney’s Carols in the Domain.
Jackman’s early film work includes Erskineville Kings and Paperback Hero (1999), and his television work includes Law of the Land, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers, and Banjo Paterson’s The Man from Snowy River.
Above: Jackman and Furness at Mumbai International Airport to attend FICCI 2011.
Oklahoma!
Jackman became known outside Australia in 1998, when he played the leading role of Curly in the Royal National Theatre’s acclaimed stage production of Oklahoma!, in London’s West End. The performance earned him an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. Jackman said “I totally felt like it can’t get any better than this. On some level that production will be one of the highlights of my career.” He also starred in the 1999 film version of the same stage musical, which has been screened in many countries.
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Movie 43 (1-Jan-2013)
Les Misérables (5-Dec-2012)
Rise of the Guardians (10-Oct-2012) [VOICE]
Real Steel (6-Sep-2011) · Charlie Kenton
Butter (4-Sep-2011)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (15-Jul-2011)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (8-Apr-2009)
Australia (26-Nov-2008)
Deception (24-Apr-2008)
Show Business: The Road to Broadway (19-Apr-2007) · Himself
Happy Feet (16-Nov-2006) [VOICE]
Flushed Away (22-Oct-2006) [VOICE]
The Prestige (17-Oct-2006)
The Fountain (4-Sep-2006) · Tomas
Scoop (28-Jul-2006) · Peter Lyman
X-Men: The Last Stand (22-May-2006)
Stories of Lost Souls (2005)
Van Helsing (3-May-2004) · Van Helsing
X2 (24-Apr-2003) · Logan — Wolverine
Kate & Leopold (25-Dec-2001)
Swordfish (4-Jun-2001)
Someone Like You… (30-Mar-2001) · Eddie Alden
X-Men (13-Jul-2000) · Logan
Oklahoma! (26-Sep-1999)
Erskineville Kings (23-Sep-1999)
Paperback Hero (25-Mar-1999)
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (8-Nov-1998)
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FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Movie 43 (1-Jan-2013)
Les Misérables (5-Dec-2012)
Rise of the Guardians (10-Oct-2012) [VOICE]
Real Steel (6-Sep-2011) · Charlie Kenton
Butter (4-Sep-2011)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (15-Jul-2011)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (8-Apr-2009)
Australia (26-Nov-2008)
Deception (24-Apr-2008)
Show Business: The Road to Broadway (19-Apr-2007) · Himself
Happy Feet (16-Nov-2006) [VOICE]
Flushed Away (22-Oct-2006) [VOICE]
The Prestige (17-Oct-2006)
The Fountain (4-Sep-2006) · Tomas
Scoop (28-Jul-2006) · Peter Lyman
X-Men: The Last Stand (22-May-2006)
Stories of Lost Souls (2005)
Van Helsing (3-May-2004) · Van Helsing
X2 (24-Apr-2003) · Logan — Wolverine
Kate & Leopold (25-Dec-2001)
Swordfish (4-Jun-2001)
Someone Like You… (30-Mar-2001) · Eddie Alden
X-Men (13-Jul-2000) · Logan
Oklahoma! (26-Sep-1999)
Erskineville Kings (23-Sep-1999)
Paperback Hero (25-Mar-1999)
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh (8-Nov-1998)
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