Biography
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, singer and producer. He was born on 12 October 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and began his career in Australian theatre and television.
Jackman is best known for portraying Logan/Wolverine in the X-Men film series, including X-Men (2000), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), Logan (2017) and Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Other notable film roles include Robert Angier in The Prestige (2006), Jean Valjean in Les Misérables (2012) and P. T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman (2017). He played Peter in The Son (2022) and Mike Sardina in Song Sung Blue (2025).
On stage he has won two Tony Awards, including for The Boy from Oz. He has also received a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
