Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, he landed his breakthrough role as Logan / Wolverine in the X-Men film series (2000–2017), a role that earned him the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel character”, until his record was surpassed in 2021. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, in addition to 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 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, Jackman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, he received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), and Rise of the Guardians (2012).
Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in Oklahoma! in 1998 and Carousel in 2002. On Broadway, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2022 he 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.
Early life
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-educated accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the “Ten Pound Poms” immigration scheme. Thus, in addition to his Australian citizenship, Jackman holds British citizenship by virtue of being born to UK-born parents. One of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor
Bellas, was Greek, from the Ottoman Empire (now in Greece). 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 two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackman’s two sisters. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending much time at the beach and on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. He wanted to see the world, saying, “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. He spent a gap year in 1987 working at Uppingham School in England as a Physical Education teacher.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[24] 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.'”
Personal life
Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness on 11 April 1996, at St. John’s in Toorak, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. They met on the set of Australian TV show Correlli. Jackman personally designed an engagement ring for Furness, and their wedding rings bore the Sanskrit inscription “Om paramar mainamar“, translated as “we dedicate our union to a greater source”. Furness had two miscarriages, following which she and Jackman adopted two children. Jackman and his family live in New York.
Jackman was raised Christian, attending multiple revivals during his childhood. In a 2015 interview, he identified as Christian but says his version of faith differs from his father’s. “He takes his religion very seriously and would prefer I go to church,” “We’ve had discussions about our separate beliefs. I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive.” He meditates daily and incorporates teachings from the spiritually eclectic School of Practical Philosophy.
In November 2013, Jackman announced he had basal-cell carcinoma removed from his nose. He had a second carcinoma removed from his nose in May 2014, telling Associated Press that he expects to have future recurrences. This resulted in Jackman attending the various worldwide premieres of X-Men: Days of Future Past with a bandage on his nose, and urging his followers on Instagram to “wear sunscreen“.
On 18 March 2015, Jackman revealed that he had to cancel stage performances in Turkey because he had a left vocal cord haemorrhage.
A portrait of Jackman and Furness by Paul Newton was a finalist in the 2022 Archibald Prize.
Philanthropy
As a philanthropist, Jackman is a longtime proponent of microcredit – the extension of very small loans to prospective entrepreneurs in impoverished countries. He is a vocal supporter of Muhammad Yunus, microcredit pioneer and the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner. Jackman also uses his Twitter account for charity. On 14 April 2009, Jackman posted on his Twitter page that he would donate $100,000 to one individual’s favourite non-profit organisation. On 21 April 2009, he revealed his decision to donate $50,000 to Charity:Water and $50,000 to Operation of Hope.
Jackman is a global advisor of the Global Poverty Project, for which he narrated a documentary; and he and the project’s founder Hugh Evans visited the UN for the cause in 2009. Jackman hosted a preview of the Global Poverty Project Presentation in New York together with Donna Karan, Lisa Fox, and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Jackman supports The Art of Elysium and the MPTV Fund Foundation, and he and Furness are patrons of the Bone Marrow Institute in Australia.
Jackman and fellow actor Daniel Craig made a unique place for themselves in the history of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fundraising 8 December 2009, when it was announced that they had raised $1,549,953 in the 21st annual Gypsy of the Year competition, from six weeks of curtain appeals at their hit Broadway drama, A Steady Rain. Jackman continued his support of Broadway Cares in 2011, raising nearly $1 million during his run of Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway.
Jackman also narrated the 2008 documentary about global warming, The Burning Season. He is also a World Vision ambassador and participated in the climate week NYC ceremony on 21 September 2009.
Jackman launched the Laughing Man Coffee company in 2011. He founded two cafés in Lower Manhattan, and also sold the coffee online, before it also became a brand for Keurig. Jackman founded the company after a trip to Ethiopia in 2009 for World Vision, where he met a fair trade coffee farmer named Dukale. All profits from Laughing Man Coffee go to the Laughing Man Foundation, which supports educational programs, community development, and social entrepreneurs around the world.
Other interests
In high school, Jackman played rugby union and cricket, took part in high jumping and was on the swimming team. He enjoys basketball and kayaking. He has expressed an interest in football, committing his support to Norwich City F.C. In the United States, Jackman supports the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer, attending a match at PPL Park in June 2010.
Jackman supports the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League and once gave the team a pep talk prior to a Showdown clash.[126] He is also a long-time fan and supporter of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, a National Rugby League (NRL) club based in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. mHe sang the Australian national anthem at the 1999 NRL Grand Final.
Jackman also guest starred on 19 September 2011 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw, assisting Zack Ryder in a win over WWE United States Champion Dolph Ziggler by punching the champion in the jaw whilst the referee was not looking.
Jackman plays the guitar, piano and violin. He also does yogaand has been a member of the School of Practical Philosophy since 1992.
Jackman has been a practitioner of Transcendental Meditation since the age of twenty. He said “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!”. He now helps the David Lynch Foundation to “bring meditation to everyone from PTSD sufferers to inner-city kids”
Jackman has been the face of several high-profile brands. He is a global ambassador for Montblanc. He is also the brand ambassador of R. M. Williams since March 2019.
Hugh Jackman Height Weight Age And Body Statistics Biography
| Hugh Jackman Biodata and Biography | |
| Name | Hugh Michael Jackman |
| Nick-name | Best known for fictional character i.e., Wolverine (From MCU) |
| Sex | Male |
| Date Of Birth | 12 October 1968 |
| Age | 54 Years (as in 2023) |
| Profession / Occupation | Actor, Producer (Australia, American, English) |
| Mother Tongue | English |
| Religion | Christian |
| Nation | Australia & United Kingdom |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Height / Weight | 6′ 2” / 82kg |
| First Movie | Erskineville Kings (1999, English) |
| First Debut | Actor: X-Men (2000, English)Producer: Deception (2008, English) TV Actor: Law of the Land (1994, English) |
| Money Factor | Net Worth: $150 million |
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| Hugh Jackman Family and Relatives | |
| Father | Christopher John Jackman |
| Mother | Grace McNeil |
| Brothers | Ian Jackman,Ralph Jackman |
| Sisters | Zoe Jackman,Sonya Jackman |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Wife | Deborra-Lee Furness (m. 1996) |
| Daughters | Ava Eliot Jackman |
| Sons | Oscar Maximilian Jackman |
| Girlfriends/ Affairs | Not Known |
| Hugh Jackman Height, Weight and Body Measurements | |
| Height in Centimetres | 188 cm |
| Height in Meters | 1.88 m |
| Height in Feet Inches | 6′ 2” |
| Weight | 82kg |
| Body Measurement | 43-32-16 |
| Chest Size | 43 inches |
| Waist Size | 32 inches |
| Biceps Size | 16 inches |
| Eye Colour | Light Brown |
| Hair Colour | Dark Brown |
| Hugh Jackman Favorites | |
| Favorite Colour | Red, Black, White |
| Favorite Actor | Not Known |
| Favorite Actress | Not Known |
| Favorite Food | Not Known |
| Hobbies | Reading, Acting, Travelling |
| Favorite Director | Not Known |
| Favorite Destination | Sydney |
| Favorite Car Collections | Not Known |
| Sexual Orientation | Straight |
| Hugh Jackman Education School and Colleges | |
| Education Qualification | BA in Communications |
| School | Pymble Public School on Sydney Knox Grammar School on Sydney |
| College / University | University of Technology Sydney Edith Cowan University |
| Others | Actors’ Centre in Sydney |
| Hugh Jackman Residence and Contact Address | |
| Birth Place | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Home Town | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Present Residence | New York, New York, USA |
| House Address | New York, New York, USA |
| Phone No / Mobile No | Not Known |
| Email ID | Not Known |
| Website | Not Known |
| Hugh Jackman Awards, Honours, Achievements | |
| National Film Award | Not Known |
| Filmfare Awards | Not Known |
| IIFA Awards | Not Known |
| Screen Awards | Not Known |
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