Hugh Jackman

Born in Sydney of English parentage, and the youngest of five children, Hugh Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama "Correlli" (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere. An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast." He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of "Sunset Boulevard." In 1998, he was cast as Curly in the Royal National Theatre's production of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma. Jackman's "Erskineville Kings" (1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. For international audiences however, his part of Logan and Wolverine in X-Men (2000) was most notable, until he went on the produce and star his own "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" movie in 2009. In his spare time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.