I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane.
He wanted to see the world, saying, "I used to spend nights looking at atlases. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending much time at the beach and on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. 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.
He also has a younger half-sister, from his mother's remarriage. Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of his parents' children to be born in Australia. His parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage. One of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor Bellas, was Greek, from the Ottoman Empire (now in Greece). Thus, in addition to his Australian citizenship, Jackman holds British citizenship by virtue of being born to UK-born parents. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the " Ten Pound Poms" immigration scheme. Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-educated accountant. 2.6 2019–present: Concert tour and The Music Man.2.5 2012–2018: Awards success and film musicals.He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. In 2021 he returned to the theatre as Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of The Music Man. On Broadway, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in The Boy from Oz. Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in Oklahoma! in 1998 and Carousel in 2002. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012), and Missing Link (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Jackman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and for The Greatest Showman, he received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to performing arts and to the global community.ĭuring his career, 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 epic 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). Jackman has received various awards including two Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, a Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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Beginning in theatre and television, he landed his breakthrough role as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine in the 20th Century Fox 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. Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor.
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