Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television. Jackman has won many international recognition for his role as superhero. He is known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, Australia, Real Steel, and Les Misérables.
Background
Ethnicity:
Special features: left-handed, poor eyesight. Wear contact lenses, sometimes glasses. Hugh did not even permitted to drive a car, if it is without glasses or lenses.
His parents were English Chris Jackman and Grace Watson, and the second child to be born in Australia (he also has a younger half-sister, from his mother's re-marriage).He was the youngest of 5 children. One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Greek. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he remained with his accountant father and siblings, while his mother moved back to England.
Education
Jackman went to primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School, where he starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985, and became the captain of the school in 1986.Following graduation, he spent a gap year working at Uppingham School in England.
On his return, he studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, graduating in 1991 with a BA in Communications. In his final year of university, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Václav Havel's The Memorandum with Jackman as the lead. 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 obtaining his BA, Jackman completed the one-year course "The Journey" at the Actors' Centre in Sydney. About studying acting full-time, he stated, "It wasn't until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. I found the courage to stand up and say, 'I want to do it'." After completing "The Journey", he was offered a role on the popular soap opera Neighbours but turned it down to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, from which he graduated in 1994.
Career
Actor: (TV series) Correlli, 1995, Snowy River: The McGregor Saga, 1993, Halifax f.p: Afraid of the Dark, 1998, Oklahoma!, 1999; (films) Hey Mr. Producer, 1998, Paperback Hero, 1999, Erskineville Kings, 1999, X-Men, 2000, Someone Like You, 2001, Swordfish, 2001, Kate & Leopold, 2001, Standing Room Only, 2002, X2, 2003, Van Helsing, 2004, The Fountain, 2006, X-Men: The Last Stand, 2006, Scoop, 2006, The Prestige, 2006, (voice) Flushed Away, 2006, Happy Feet, 2006, Uncle Jonny, 2008, Deception, 2008, Australia, 2008, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, 2009 (Choice Movie Actor: Action Adventure, Teen Choice Awards, 2009), (Broadway debut) The Boy from Oz, 2003— (Tony award best actor in a musical, 2004, Drama Desk award best actor in a musical, 2004), (other stage appearances) Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma!, Carousel, 2002, A Steady Rain, 2009; host Tony Awards, 2003, 2004, 2005 (Emmy award, outstanding individual performance in a variety or musical program, 2005), The Oscars, 2009
Personality
Talents: In addition to acting, singing and dancing, Hugh plays the piano, violin and guitar. He also knows how to juggle five balls at a time. Can do "loop the loop" yo-rope 35 times. In 10 years, he was a champion champ. He also knows how to do a very strange thing - vibrate pupils. In 2004, at the presentation of prizes for children "Nickelodeon" Hugh was crowned champion of the North American belching :)
Teacher: Hugh teaches drama at the school where his son is studying Oscar - not in his class, but for the 10-year-old boys. He told me that they are absolutely not listen to him; All that they are interested in - "it's Wolverine, dude!"