Hugh Michael Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film musical theater and television. 

Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films primarily as superheroes period and romance characters. He is best known for his long role as Wolverine in the movie series X-Men, as well as potential customers in Kate & Leopold Van Helsing The Prestige Les Misérables Australia Real Steel and prisoners. His work on Les Misérables earned him his first nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor and his first Golden Globe for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy in 2013 He is also a singer dancer and actor in stage musicals, and won a prize Tony for his role in the Boy from Oz. 

A series of four-time Tony winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances awards Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009. 
early life 
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, son of Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman Cambridge-trained accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of immigration "Ten Pound Poms". One of the paternal great-grandfathers was Greek Jackman. His parents were devout Christians who have been converted by evangelist Billy Graham after his marriage. Jackman has four older brothers and was the second son of his parents at birth in Australia. He also has a younger half-sister of his mother's remarriage. His parents divorced when he was eight and Jackman stayed in Australia with his father and two brothers Jackman while his mother moved back to England with two sisters Jackman. As a child Jackman liked the outdoors who spend time on the beach and on camping trips and vacations all over Australia. I wanted to see the world: "I used to spend nights looking at atlases decided to become a chef on a plane because he had been on a plane and there was food on board assumed it was a chef ... thought it would be a dream job." 

Jackman went to primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended Knox Grammar School for boys in Sydney Upper North Shore where starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985 and became the captain (class president) of school in 1986 after graduating spent a gap year working at Uppingham school in England. Upon his return, he studied at the University of Technology Sydney where he graduated in 1991 with a BA in Communications. In his senior year he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Václav Havel's The Memorandum with Jackman as the protagonist. [5] 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 earning his bachelor Jackman completed the one-year course "The Journey" at the Actors Centre in Sydney. [5] About studying acting full-time, he said "It was not until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a kid I had always had an interest in theater. but the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. was not what one did for a living.'m over that.'ve found the courage to stand up and say 'do I want.' "After completing "The Journey" was offered a role on the popular soap opera Neighbours but turned it down to attend the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia, where he graduated in 1994. 

Jackman has said he "always loved acting but when I started at drama school it was like the fool of the class. Simply not going to come in handy for me. Everyone was cooler everyone seemed more likely to be successful all the world seemed more natural to her and in retrospect, I think it's good. I think it's good to come back as an actor. I think it's good to go to an audition thinking 'Man I have to be at my best to get this concert . '"
Early work 
On the night of his last performance Academy graduation 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 dramatic series of 10 chapters in the first major professional work of ABC Jackman 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 musical career on the stage in Melbourne starred in the 1998 Midsumma festival production Summa Cabaret cabaret. He also hosted Melbourne Carols by Candlelight and Sydney Carols in the Domain. 

X-Men: 

In 1999, Jackman played Wolverine in X-Men Bryan Singer (2000) replacing Dougray Scott. His co-stars included Patrick Stewart James Marsden and Famke Janssen Ian McKellen. According to a CBS interview in November 2006, Jackman's wife Deborra-Lee Furness told him not to take the role of a comment he later said he was glad he ignored. [Citation needed] 

Wolverine was tough for Jackman to portray because he had few lines, but a lot of emotion to convey in them. To prepare watched Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry movies and Mel Gibson in Road Warrior. "Here were guys who had relatively little dialogue as Wolverine had, but they knew and felt everything. I'm not normally one to copy, but I wanted to see how these guys did it." Jackman was adamant about doing his own stunts in the film. "We worked a lot in the way of movement Wolverine and I studied some martial arts. Saw a lot of Mike Tyson fights especially his early fights. There's something about your animal style fashion that seemed right for Wolverine. I stopped Never point the writers do not give me long, choreographed fights her sake. dont fights pretty. "

Jackman also had to get used to wearing Wolverine's claws. "Every day in my living room that just walk around with those claws to get used to them. Got scars on punctures one leg straight through the cheek, on my forehead. I'm a bit clumsy. I'm lucky I did not say them that when I auditioned. "

Jackman at 6 feet 2.5 inches (1.89 m) higher than Wolverine foot is said in the original comic book to be 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m) rises. [18] Hence, the filmmakers were frequently forced to shoot Jackman at unusual angles or only from the waist up to make him appear shorter than it really is and her castmates wore platform soles. Jackman was also required to add a lot of muscle for the role, and in preparing for the fourth film in the series bench-pressed over 300 pounds. 

Jackman reprized his role in 2003 X2: X-Men United, 2006 X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men prequel 2,009 Origins: Wolverine Troye Sivan even played the younger version of James Howlett. Also cameoed as Wolverine in 2011 X-Men: First Class. He returned to the role again in 2013 Wolverine The Wolverine an independent sequel that takes place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand and reprized the role in the 2014 sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past. 

2001 
Jackman starred as Leopold in the 2001 romantic comedy film Kate & Leopold a role for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. Jackman plays a Victorian English duke who accidentally time-travels to 21st-century Manhattan, where he meets Kate a cynical advertising executive (Meg Ryan). In 2001, Jackman also starred in Swordfish / Drama Action with John Travolta and Halle Berry. This was the second time Jackman worked with Berry, and the two have worked together three times in the X-Men movies. 

He hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 2001.