Hugh Jackman
Acting • Born 1968-10-12
Biography
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.
Filmography
166 credits
Scoop
Movie • 2006
Peter Lyman
The Prestige
Movie • 2006
Robert Angier
The Fountain
Movie • 2006
Tomás / Tom Creo / Tommy
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Movie • 2009
Logan / Wolverine
Kate & Leopold
Movie • 2001
Leopold
Flushed Away
Movie • 2006
Roddy (voice)
Australia
Movie • 2008
The Drover
Van Helsing: The London Assignment
Movie • 2004
Gabriel Van Helsing (voice)
Van Helsing
Movie • 2004
Van Helsing
Swordfish
Movie • 2001
Stanley
Oklahoma!
Movie • 1999
Curly McLain
Someone Like You...
Movie • 2001
Eddie Alden
Deception
Movie • 2008
Wyatt Bose
Happy Feet
Movie • 2006
Memphis (voice)
X-Men
Movie • 2000
Logan / Wolverine
X2
Movie • 2003
Logan / Wolverine
X-Men: The Last Stand
Movie • 2006
Logan / Wolverine
Erskineville Kings
Movie • 1999
Wace
Show Me the Magic
Movie • 2012
Self
Oh My God
Movie • 2009
Self
Real Steel
Movie • 2011
Charlie Kenton
Paperback Hero
Movie • 1999
Jack Willis
X-Men: First Class
Movie • 2011
Logan / Wolverine (uncredited)
Rise of the Guardians
Movie • 2012
Bunny (voice)
Les Misérables
Movie • 2012
Jean Valjean
Stories of Lost Souls
Movie • 2004
Roger
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
Movie • 2011
Self
Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl
Movie • 2012
Self
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Movie • 2011
Arthur
Movie 43
Movie • 2013
Davis (segment "The Catch")
Butter
Movie • 2012
Boyd Bolton
Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World
Movie • 2006
Self
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Movie • 2014
Logan / Wolverine
Prisoners
Movie • 2013
Keller Dover
Profile of a Serial Killer
Movie • 1998
Eric Ringer
The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan
Movie • 2007
Self
Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh
Movie • 1998
Curly McLain (Oklahoma)
The Burning Season
Movie • 2008
Narrator (voice)
Logan
Movie • 2017
Logan / X-24
Pan
Movie • 2015
Blackbeard
The Wolverine
Movie • 2013
Logan / Wolverine
WWE Survivor Series 2011
Movie • 2011
Hugh Jackman
Chappie
Movie • 2015
Vincent Moore
Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey
Movie • 2014
Self
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
Movie • 2014
Hugh Jackman (uncredited)
The Greatest Showman
Movie • 2017
P. T. Barnum
Eddie the Eagle
Movie • 2016
Bronson Peary
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Movie • 2015
Hugh Jackman (voice)
Uncle Jonny
Movie • 2008
Uncle Russell
Dukale's Dream
Movie • 2015
Self
ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway
Movie • 2007
Self
The Death of Robin Hood
Movie • 2026
Robin Hood
Star Wars: Greatest Moments
Movie • 2015
Self
Once Upon a Time: The Super Heroes
Movie • 2001
Wolverine (archive footage)
The Sheep Detectives
Movie • 2026
George Hardy
X-Men: Apocalypse
Movie • 2016
Logan / Weapon X / Wolverine (uncredited)
Evolution X - The Making of X-Men
Movie • 2003
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Movie • 2003
Self
Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie • 2024
Logan / Wolverine
Standing Room Only
Movie • 2004
Roger
X-Men: Premieres Around the World
Movie • 2003
Self
X2 Global Webcast Highlights
Movie • 2003
Self
Weapon X Mutant Files
Movie • 2009
Self
The Wolverine: Path of a Ronin
Movie • 2013
Self
The Front Runner
Movie • 2018
Gary Hart
Six by Sondheim
Movie • 2013
Curly (archive footage)
Missing Link
Movie • 2019
Sir Lionel Frost (voice)
The Rat Tamer
Movie • 1995
Kevin Jones
Bad Education
Movie • 2019
Frank Tassone
Movie Musical Greats with Hugh Jackman
Movie • 2017
Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story
Movie • 2013
Self
Reminiscence
Movie • 2021
Nicolas 'Nick' Bannister
Inside The Fountain: Death and Rebirth
Movie • 2007
Himself
Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins
Movie • 2009
Self
X-Men: The Mutant Watch
Movie • 2000
Self - 'Logan / 'Wolverine'
Molly: The Real Thing
Movie • 2016
Self
The Son
Movie • 2022
Peter
Free Guy
Movie • 2021
Masked Player in Alley (voice)
On Broadway
Movie • 2019
Self
Song Sung Blue
Movie • 2025
Mike Sardina
That Sugar Film
Movie • 2014
Self
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine
Movie • 2024
Self - Logan / Wolverine
Boy Band
Movie
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Movie • 2002
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
Movie • 2004
Self
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life
Movie • 2015
Self
The Making of 'Oklahoma!'
Movie • 1999
Self
Making 'Logan'
Movie • 2017
Self
Journey Home, David Gulpilil
Movie • 2025
Narrator (voice)
Sunset Boulevard and the Palace of Dreams
Movie
Joe Gillis
Whoopi Goldberg: The Winning Act
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Conquering Skin Cancer
Movie • 2024
Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Movie • 2012
(archive footage)
Seeds of Hope
Movie • 2010
Self
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power
Movie • 2022
(archive footage)
The Great Entertainer
Movie • 2025
Self
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Movie • 2013
Self
C.E.O
Movie • 2025
Apostle Paul
Movie
Paul
Mutant vs. Machine: The Making of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Movie • 2015
Self
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV • 2003
Self
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self - Guest
Blue Heelers
TV • 1993
Brady Jackson
Today
TV • 1952
Self
Punk'd
TV • 2003
Self
The View
TV • 1997
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV • 1992
The Early Show
TV • 1999
Self
60 Minutes
TV • 1968
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
TV • 1993
Self - Guest
Correlli
TV • 1995
Kevin Jones
Raw
TV • 1993
Himself
An Aussie Goes Bolly
TV • 2008
The Jonathan Ross Show
TV • 2011
Self
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Good Day Live
TV • 2001
Self
Teen Choice Awards
TV • 1999
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Circus Halligalli
TV • 2013
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
TV • 2020
Prince Humperdinck
Big Mouth
TV • 2017
himself (voice)
Rove
TV • 1999
Self
Projectorparishilton
TV • 2008
Ink Master
TV • 2012
Himself - Guest Judge
Human Resources
TV • 2022
Dante (voice)
Rick and Morty
TV • 2013
Hugh Jackman (voice)
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Janitor (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Faraway Downs
TV • 2023
Drover
The Reichen Show
TV • 2005
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV • 2015
Self
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
The Man from Snowy River
TV • 1994
Duncan Jones
Entertainment Tonight
TV • 1981
Self
Activate: The Global Citizen Movement
TV • 2019
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Koala Man
TV • 2023
Big Greg (voice)
Welcome to Wrexham
TV • 2022
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
TV • 2022
Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
TV • 2022
Megafauna: What Killed Australia's Giants?
TV • 2024
Self - Narrator (voice)
Halifax f.p.
TV • 1994
Eric Ringer
Viva Laughlin
TV • 2007
Nicky Fontana
Hot Ones
TV • 2015
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest Host
Marvel's Storyboards
TV • 2020
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Conan
TV • 2010
Self
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self
Parkinson
TV • 1998
Self
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
Chicken Shop Date
TV • 2014
Self - Guest
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
TV • 1973
Self
Chicken Shop Date
TV • 2014
Self - Guest (archive footage)
Beau geste
TV • 2023
Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
TV • 2025
Self
C à vous
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
Have You Been Paying Attention?
TV • 2013
Self - Video Quizmaster
Sydney New Year's Eve
TV • 1996
Co-Host
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
TV • 1988
Self