|
Hugh Jackman Bio
bookmark this at :: del.icio.us
:: Digg it
|
|
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 |
 Born October 12, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, of English parentage.
Hugh was raised in the suburbs of Sydney as the youngest of 5 children.
He has a Communications degree with a Journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney.
Attended ‘The Journey’, a 1 year workshop at the Actor’s Centre Sydney, after which he enrolled at the WAAPA, Perth. Here he did courses like ‘Voice’ and also ‘Artiste’, what helped him to earn money as a clown at children parties, whilst studying. He majored in Drama after 3 years.
Immediately after his graduating he got offered a starring role in an ABC TV mini series: the prison Drama ‘Correlli’. Here he met his future wife, the lead actress of this series and also Australian movie star: Deborra-Lee Furness.
Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere.
An accomplished singer, HJ has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of ‘Beauty & the Beast’, where Trevor Nunn saw him and so he also starred as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and in the Royal National Theatre’s production of ‘Oklahoma!’.
After filming 2 feature films in between, he visited the USA for the adoption of his son Oscar Maximillian (born 15. May 2000) and got a call: to replace the unable to play Dougray Scott as Wolverine, 4 weeks into the production of the ‘X-Men’ movie. That was the start for his career in the USA / international movie market.
Now he and his family (meanwhile they had adopted their daughter Ava Eliot, born 10 July 2005) travel between Australia, U.K., Canada and the USA, depending on the locations of his and Deborra-Lee’s movies.Labels: Hugh Jackman |
posted by Wayne Mansfield @ 8:54 PM  |
|
|
|
|
| Archives |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Links |
|
|
|
|
|
