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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman
Born 12 Oct 1968, in Sydney, Australia

Wise words: "Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8 year olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me."



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  • Hey Presto! Jackman confirms Houdini role - 5 January 2012
    -Hugh Jackman has confirmed he'll be bringing his magic touch back to the Broadway stage in 2013 as illusionist Harry Houdini.-The movie star has just completed a record-breaking one-man show in New York and now he's set to tackle a musical about one of the most enigm


  • Jackman breaks theatre records in New York in final week - 2 January 2012
    -Movie star Hugh Jackman ended 2011 on a high note by breaking theatre records in New York.-The Real Steel star's one-man show, Back on Broadway, at the Broadhurst Theatre closed on Sunday (01Jan12) after having earned over £1.25 million in its final week - the h


  • Real tears for Jackman over Real Steel - 2 November 2011
    -Hugh Jackman is a big supporter of his latest movie Real Steel - because he found it moving watching the father-and-son, robot boxing drama with his family.-The X-Men star admits he rarely watches his own movies but he felt compelled to check out the action film with

Hugh Jackman - what members say


  • Oklahoma - The Stage Production
  • Oklahoma - The Stage Production review by A customer from Greater London, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Oklahoma 20 October 2004
    ...ame to this version without any preconceived ideas and was immediately smitten. Hugh Jackman was excellent as Curly, what a talented individual. Trevor Nunn's direction was...   Read customer review
  • X-Men
  • X-Men review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Mutants are not the ones mankind should fear. 26 November 2007
    ... shots and convincing performances, particularly Stewart and McKellen, but also Hugh Jackman and Anna Paquin as the outcast mutants Wolverine and Rogue. The movie's onl...   Read customer review
  • X-Men 2
  • X-Men 2 review by from London
    Rated - 2.0 stars Not much of an evolution 23 September 2004
    ...'s finale. Magneto(Ian McKellan) is incarcerated in his plastic cell, Wolverine(Hugh Jackman) is taking some time off to investigate his past, and the mutants are generally...   Read customer review

Hugh Jackman - filmography


  • Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011)
    Starring: Bingbing Li,  Gianna Jun,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 16 members
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  • Real Steel - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Evangeline Lilly,  Dakota Goyo
    Director: Shawn Levy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Unavailable
    A retired pugilist transitions to the business side of the ropes after human boxers are replaced by robotic ones in director Shawn Levy's feature-length adaptation of the TWILIGHT ZONE episode 'Steel'. Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) was fighting for the title when the sport of boxing was changed ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 78 members
    Due for release on 20th February 2012
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  • Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Gianna Jun,  Li Bingbing,  Vivian Wu
    Director: Wayne Wang
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The descendants of two 19th century spiritual sisters struggle to maintain their enduring bond by exploring their ancestral connection in modern-day Shanghai. Connected as 'laotong' (old sames) at the tender age of seven, Snow Flower and Lily grow up in isolation and develop a language all their ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 3 members
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  • Oh My God (2009)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Seal,  Ringo Starr
    Director: Peter Rodger
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In every corner of the world, there's one question that can never be definitively answered, yet stirs up equal parts passion, curiosity, self-reflection and often wild imagination: "What is God?" Filmmaker Peter Rodger explores this profound, age-old query in the provocative non-fiction feature "..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 5 members
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  • Australia - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MOULIN ROUGE's Baz Luhrman and Nicole Kidman reteam for this epic that pays homage to their homeland. In AUSTRALIA, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) is a prim and proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8,520 members
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  • Australia on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Nicole Kidman,  Hugh Jackman,  David Wenham
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    MOULIN ROUGE's Baz Luhrman and Nicole Kidman reteam for this epic that pays homage to their homeland. In AUSTRALIA, Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) is a prim and proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 53,926 members
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  • Deception on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Ewan McGregor,  Hugh Jackman,  Michelle Williams
    Director: Marcel Langenegger
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But in this new world, he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 27,447 members
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  • Scoop (2006)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Scarlett Johansson,  Charles Dance
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An American journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) visiting London gets a hot tip on a notorious serial murder case after a ghostly encounter inside the disappearing cabinet of a neurotic vaudevillian (writer/director/co-star Woody Allen). But when she falls for the dashing aristocrat (Hugh ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 386 members
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  • Flushed Away on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Kate Winslet,  Hugh Jackman,  Ian McKellen
    Director: David Bowers,  Sam Fell
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 39,939 members
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  • Happy Feet - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in the strange and beautiful world first explored in the 2005 documentary MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, George Miller's HAPPY FEET tells the story of Mumble (Elijah Wood), a tone-deaf Emperor Penguin who is unable to sing his 'heart song', the ritual required to win a mate (in this case, his beloved ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,263 members
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  • Happy Feet - HD (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in the strange and beautiful world first explored in the 2005 documentary MARCH OF THE PENGUINS, George Miller's HAPPY FEET tells the story of Mumble (Elijah Wood), a tone-deaf Emperor Penguin who is unable to sing his 'heart song', the ritual required to win a mate (in this case, his beloved ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 341 members
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  • The Fountain - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Ethan Suplee,  Cliff Curtis,  Sean Gullette
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Darren Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN is sure to enchant, beguile, and inspire intense debate among his fans. During the gap since 2000's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, Aronofsky had struggled to bring THE FOUNTAIN to the screen, principally because leading man Brad Pitt dropped out of the project. The complex ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 2,406 members
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  • The Prestige on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Piper Perabo,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    From acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan ("Memento," "Batman Begins"), comes a mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy with dangerous and deadly consequences.From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 93,199 members
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  • Happy Feet on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Hugh Jackman,  Nicole Kidman
    Director: George Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Emperor penguins are born to sing. All except young Mumble, who was born to dance... tap dance. Such un-penguin-like behaviour eventually gets Mumble kicked out of Emperor Land and into the big cold world. Joined by his Adelie Amigos and an all-knowing Rockhopper penguin names Lovelace, Mumble ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 38,011 members
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  • The Prestige - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Piper Perabo,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director Christopher Nolan's (MEMENTO) eclectic resume gains another interesting entry with THE PRESTIGE. Set in early 20th-century London, the film centres on the bitter rivalry between two magicians who go to increasingly dangerous lengths to upstage one another. Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman, X-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 6,431 members
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  • The Prestige - HD (2006)
    Starring: Christian Bale,  Piper Perabo,  Scarlett Johansson
    Director: Christopher Nolan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    Director Christopher Nolan's (MEMENTO) eclectic resume gains another interesting entry with THE PRESTIGE. Set in early 20th-century London, the film centres on the bitter rivalry between two magicians who go to increasingly dangerous lengths to upstage one another. Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman, X-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,322 member
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  • The Fountain on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Ethan Suplee,  Cliff Curtis,  Sean Gullette
    Director: Darren Aronofsky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "The Fountain" is an odyssey about one man's eternal struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16th-century Spain, where conquistador Tomas (Hugh Jackman) commences his search for the Fountain of Youth, the legendary entity believed to grant immortality. As modern-day ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 20,811 members
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  • Van Helsing on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Kate Beckinsale,  Richard Roxburgh
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All varieties of otherworldly creatures come out to play in Stephen Sommers' gothic carnival. Frankenstein's monster, ferocious werewolves, vampire bat babies, a maniacal scientist named Igor, and a CGI Dr. Jekyll are just a few. When they come together, a thrilling fantasy adventure results, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 53,376 members
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  • Van Helsing - HD (2004)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Kate Beckinsale,  Richard Roxburgh
    Director: Stephen Sommers
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    All varieties of otherworldly creatures come out to play in Stephen Sommers' gothic carnival. Frankenstein's monster, ferocious werewolves, vampire bat babies, a maniacal scientist named Igor, and a CGI Dr. Jekyll are just a few. When they come together, a thrilling fantasy adventure results, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 919 members
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  • X-Men 2 on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Patrick Stewart,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The X-Men led by Professor Xavier once again return to save the world from a group of mutant creatures. Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President, Stryker sets out to capture the pupils at the school for the 'gifted' and Magneto has escaped from his cell and is out to reek havoc...
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 57,001 members
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  • X-Men 2 - Blu-ray (2003)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Patrick Stewart,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The X-Men led by Professor Xavier once again return to save the world from a group of mutant creatures. Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President, Stryker sets out to capture the pupils at the school for the 'gifted' and Magneto has escaped from his cell and is out to reek havoc...
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 2,537 members
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  • Animal Attraction on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Ashley Judd,  Hugh Jackman,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Tony Goldwyn
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After a series of ill-fated relationships, Jane (Ashley Judd) has finally met Mr. Right, Ray (Greg Kinnear)--he's emotionally available, and not afraid of commitment. Six weeks into their blissful courtship, he asks her to move in with him, and they start looking at apartments. But little by little ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,440 members
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  • Kate And Leopold on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Hugh Jackman,  Liev Schreiber
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    In this romance novel come to life, Meg Ryan plays the titular Kate, a career-driven market researcher who's been burned by love. Her science-obsessed ex-boyfriend (Liev Schreiber), who lives in the apartment upstairs from hers, says he's found a portal to travel through time and has brought a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 8,622 members
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  • Swordfish - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Hugh Jackman,  Halle Berry
    Director: Dominic Sena
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Star John Travolta revisits the grinning villain territory he explored in BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF with this stylish, supercharged techno-thriller. He plays Gabriel, a charismatic, fast-living mystery man who, with help from his right-hand woman, Ginger (Halle Berry), recruits ex-con and former ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 3,428 members
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  • Swordfish - HD (2001)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Hugh Jackman,  Halle Berry
    Director: Dominic Sena
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Star John Travolta revisits the grinning villain territory he explored in BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF with this stylish, supercharged techno-thriller. He plays Gabriel, a charismatic, fast-living mystery man who, with help from his right-hand woman, Ginger (Halle Berry), recruits ex-con and former ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 714 members
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  • Swordfish on DVD (2001)
    Starring: John Travolta,  Hugh Jackman,  Halle Berry
    Director: Dominic Sena
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Star John Travolta revisits the grinning villain territory he explored in BROKEN ARROW and FACE/OFF with this stylish, supercharged techno-thriller. He plays Gabriel, a charismatic, fast-living mystery man who, with help from his right-hand woman, Ginger (Halle Berry), recruits ex-con and former ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 23,673 members
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  • Oklahoma - The Stage Production (2000)
    Starring: Maureen Lipman,  Peter Polycarpou,  Hugh Jackman
    Director: Trevor Nunn
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This Royal National Theatre production of OKLAHOMA! stars Hugh Jackman, Maureen Lipman, Josefina Gabrielle, and Shuler Hensley. Songs include: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', The Surry with the Fringe on Top, and more. The DVD also includes a making-of documentary.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,044 member
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  • X-Men on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Stewart,  Ian McKellen,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. Cyclops unleashes bolts of energy from his eyes. Storm can manipulate the weather at will. Rogue absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. But, under the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 48,359 members
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  • X-Men - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Patrick Stewart,  Ian McKellen,  Famke Janssen
    Director: Bryan Singer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. Cyclops unleashes bolts of energy from his eyes. Storm can manipulate the weather at will. Rogue absorbs the life force of anyone she touches. But, under the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,400 members
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  • Profile of a Serial Killer (1998)
    Starring: Rebecca Gibney,  Shane Feeney-Connor,  Hugh Jackman
    Director: Steve Jodrell
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When several people are brutally murdered at a service station, Jane Halifax lends her forensic psychiatric skills to the police investigation that immediately follows. As the case progresses, she establishes a strange rapport with Ray Harvey, a mechanic that is the principal witness to the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 39% from 12 members
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  • Snowy River - The McGregor Saga (1993)
    Starring: Hugh Jackman,  Guy Pearce
    Director: Pino Amenta,  Tim Burstall
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    SNOWY RIVER, the Australian TV series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "Man from Snowy River," takes place in the late 19th century in a small mountain town outside of Melbourne. The program follows the dramatic story of Matt McGregor and his family as it plays out in the course of this charming, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 14 members
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Hugh Jackman facts

5 most recent films

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3.5 stars
Real Steel - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Real Steel - 3.5 stars
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
X-Men Origins - Wolverine - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Prestige - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Real Steel - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Prestige - HD - 4.0 stars
X-Men 2 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
X-Men - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Profile of a Serial Killer - 2.5 stars
Snowy River - The McGregor Saga - 2.5 stars
Snow Flower And The Secret Fan - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Oh My God - 3.0 stars
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Halle Berry - 17 times - show films
Ian McKellen - 15 times - show films
James Marsden - 13 times - show films
Patrick Stewart - 13 times - show films
Famke Janssen - 13 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bryan Singer - 9 times - show films
Dominic Sena - 4 times - show films
George Miller - 4 times - show films
Christopher Nolan - 4 times - show films
Brett Ratner - 4 times - show films