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Hugh Jackman was born on October 12, 1968 in Sydney. The youngest of the family, his parents divorced when he was 8 years old. His mother leaves the family home to return to live in England, his native country. The little boy and his four siblings grew up in Australia alongside their father. All the children of the siblings do theater after school, encouraged by their father who works as an accountant. Hugh Jackman took a liking to comedy, but chose to study journalism, and graduated from the Technological University of Sydney.
His diploma in journalism in his pocket, he was finally caught up in his desire to act, and branched off to a theater school. He enrolled at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, where he graduated in 1994. To gain his independence, he lived off odd jobs and the following year obtained a role in an Australian television series, Correlli. . This series immediately brings him a certain notoriety. In 1999, he walked the boards on a London stage on the poster of the play Oklahoma. His theatrical performance is noticed by American producers. He landed a first role in a feature film in 1999 in Paperback Hero. Shortly after, he auditioned for X-Men and landed the role of Wolverine following Dougray Scott's withdrawal. Hugh Jackman is the revelation of the film and thus launches his international career. In 2003, he resumed the costume of the wolf man in the second part of the saga, X-Men 2 by Bryan Singer.
Hugh Jackman reveals other facets of his acting in 2003, on the poster of a musical, The Boy from Oz. He proves that he knows how to do everything on stage; play but also sing and dance. For two years, he took to the Broadway stage to play Peter Allen, an Australian gay icon who became famous in the United States. His performance is critically acclaimed. In 2006, he twice co-starred with Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's Scoop and Christopher Nolan's The Prestige. Then, it is with his compatriot Nicole Kidman that he turns the romantic comedy Australia (2008) in his native country. In 2008, he became Hollywood's newest sex symbol when People magazine named him Sexiest Man of the Year. At the same time, the actor regularly returns as the superhero Wolverine in the X-men series in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013.
In 2012, he again demonstrated his talents as a dancer and singer in the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables by Tom Hooper. In 2013, the Australian actor was among the three highest paid actors in Hollywood. He varies the registers and shoots a thriller Prisoners by Denis Villeneuve (2013), a comedy Night at the Museum: The Secret of the Pharaohs (2014), and plays the formidable Blackbeard in Pan by Joe Wright (2015). In 2016, the prolific actor starred in Eddie the eagle and filmed a new X-Men opus, The Wolverine 3.
On the private side, Hugh Jackman met Deborra-Lee Furness, an Australian actress 13 years his senior, on the set of the Correlli series in 1995. They married in April 1996 and adopted two children; Oscar Maximilian (born May 15, 2000) and Ava Eliot (born July 10, 2005). In November 2013, he revealed, on social networks, to have basal cell carcinoma, a benign form of skin cancer.
