Hugh Jackman Height, Age, Wife, Affairs, Net Worth, Biography & More

Hugh Michael Jackman AC Known Hugh Jackman was born October 12, 1968 is an Australian actor. He landed his landmark role as Wolverine / Logan in the X-Men film series (2000-2017), a tenure that earned him the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero.

Jackman has made the headlines of several films during his career, including the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action horror Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the fantasy drama La Fontaine. (2006), the animated film Flushed Away (2006), period romance Australia (2008), the epic musical Les Misérables (2012), Rise of the Guardians (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), Missing Link (2019) and the musical The Greatest Showman (2017).

For the latter, he received a Grammy Award for best soundtrack album. As Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Hugh Jackman was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy.

At the Broadway Theater, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz. A four-time Tony Awards host, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Jackman was named Companion of the Order of Australia on the anniversary of the Queen 2019 for service to the performing arts and to the global community.

Jackman married Deborra-Lee Furness on April 11, 1996, in St. John’s in Toorak, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne. They met on the set of the 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, as a result of which she and Jackman adopted two children, Oscar and Ava. Jackman and his family live in New York.

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