Australian actor Hugh Jackman is known for his leading man roles on stage and screen. Jackman gained stardom for his portrayal of the Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine from the X-Men film series in 10 films starting with X-Men (2000) to most recently, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The role earned him the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel character", which was later given to Wesley Snipes in the same film. [1]
On film, he won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the musical epic film Les Misérables (2012). He also portrayed Gabriel Van Helsing in the action film Van Helsing (2004), P. T. Barnum in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), and Gary Hart in the political drama The Front Runner (2018). He took starring roles in the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the crime comedy Scoop (2006), the thriller The Prestige (2006), the romantic drama The Fountain (2006), the romance adventure Australia (2008), the action film Real Steel (2011), the psychological drama Prisoners (2013), the science-fiction film Reminiscence (2021), and the drama The Son (2022).
Jackman started his career on stage in Australia in Beauty and the Beast (1995), and Sunset Boulevard (1996). He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his breakthrough role as Curly McLain in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical revival Oklahoma! (1998) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut playing Peter Allen in the musical The Boy from Oz (2004) for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He returned to the Broadway stage playing Prof. Harold Hill in the revival of the Meredith Willson musical The Music Man (2021–2023).
He played a corrupt superintendent in the HBO television movie Bad Education (2019). Jackman hosted Saturday Night Live in 2001, the Tony Awards four times: 57th Tony Awards in 2003, 58th Tony Awards in 2004, 59th Tony Awards in 2005, and 68th Tony Awards in 2014, and the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. He has also voiced roles for Big Mouth in 2021, Human Resources from 2022 to 2023, The Simpsons in 2022, and Rick and Morty in 2023.
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1999 | Erskineville Kings | Wace | [2] | |
Paperback Hero | Jack Willis | [3] | ||
2000 | X-Men | Logan / Wolverine | [4] | |
2001 | Someone like You | Eddie | [5] | |
Swordfish | Stanley Jobson | [6] | ||
Kate & Leopold | Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten | [7] | ||
2003 | X2 | Logan / Wolverine | [8] | |
2004 | Van Helsing | Gabriel Van Helsing | [9] | |
Van Helsing: The London Assignment | Voice role | [10] | ||
2005 | Stories of Lost Souls | Roger | Segment: "Standing Room Only" | [11] |
2006 | X-Men: The Last Stand | Logan / Wolverine | [12] | |
Scoop | Peter Lyman | [13] | ||
The Prestige | Robert Angier and Gerald Root | [14] | ||
Flushed Away | Roddy St. James | Voice role | [15] | |
Happy Feet | Memphis | [16] | ||
The Fountain | Tomás, Tommy and Tom Creo | [17] | ||
2008 | Deception | Wyatt Bose | Also producer | [18] |
Australia | The Drover | [19] | ||
The Burning Season | Narrator | Documentary film; Voice role | [20] | |
2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine | Also producer | [21] |
2011 | X-Men: First Class | Uncredited cameo | [22] | |
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan | Arthur | [23] | ||
Butter | Boyd Bolton | [24] | ||
Real Steel | Charlie Kenton | [25] | ||
2012 | Rise of the Guardians | Bunnymund / The Easter Bunny | Voice role | [26] |
Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | [27] | ||
2013 | Movie 43 | Davis | [28] | |
Prisoners | Keller Dover | [29] | ||
The Wolverine | Logan / Wolverine | [30] | ||
2014 | X-Men: Days of Future Past | [31] | ||
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | King Arthur / Himself | Uncredited cameo | [32] | |
2015 | Chappie | Vincent Moore | [33] | |
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | Himself | Voice cameo | [34] | |
Pan | Blackbeard | [35] | ||
2016 | Eddie the Eagle | Bronson Peary | [36] | |
X-Men: Apocalypse | Logan / Weapon X | Uncredited cameo | [37] | |
2017 | Logan | James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine and X-24 | [38] | |
The Greatest Showman | P. T. Barnum | [39] | ||
2018 | Deadpool 2 | James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine | Archival footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine | [40] |
The Front Runner | Gary Hart | [41] | ||
2019 | Missing Link | Sir Lionel Frost | Voice role | [42] |
Bad Education | Frank Tassone | [43] | ||
2021 | Free Guy | Masked Player in Alley | Voice cameo | [44] |
Reminiscence | Nicolas "Nick" Bannister | [45] | ||
2022 | The Son | Peter Miller | [46] | |
2024 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Logan / Wolverine | [47] | |
2026 | Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie † | George Hardy | Post-production | [48] |
TBA | Song Sung Blue † | Mike Sardina | Post-production | [49] |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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1994 | Law of the Land | Charles "Chicka" McCray | Episode: "Win, Lose and Draw" | |
1995 | Correlli | Kevin Jones | 10 episodes | |
Blue Heelers | Brady Jackson | Episode: "Just Desserts" | ||
1996 | The Man from Snowy River | Duncan Jones | 5 episodes | |
1998 | Halifax f.p. | Eric Ringer | Episode: "Afraid of the Dark"; released on DVD as Profile of a Serial Killer | [50] |
1999 | Oklahoma! | Curly McLain | Television play | [51] |
2001 | Saturday Night Live | Himself / Host | Episode: "Hugh Jackman/Mick Jagger" | [52] |
2003 | 57th Tony Awards | Television special | [53] | |
2004 | 58th Tony Awards | [54] | ||
2005 | 59th Tony Awards | [55] | ||
2007 | Viva Laughlin | Nicky Fontana | Episode: "Pilot"; also executive producer | [56] |
2009 | 81st Academy Awards | Himself / Host | Television special | [57] |
2011 | Saturday Night Live | Daniel Radcliffe | Episode: "Ben Stiller/Foster the People" | [58] |
2014 | 68th Tony Awards | Himself / Host | Television special | [59] |
2020 | Home Movie: The Princess Bride | Prince Humperdinck | Episode: "Chapter One: As You Wish" | [60] |
2021 | Big Mouth | Himself (voice) | Episode: "No Nut November" | [61] |
2022–2023 | Human Resources | Dante the Addiction Angel (voice) | Recurring role | [62] |
2022 | The Simpsons | Janitor (voice) | Episode: "Poorhouse Rock" | [63] |
2023 | Koala Man | Big Greg (voice) | Recurring role, 8 episodes | [64] |
Rick and Morty | Himself (voice) | Episode: "How Poopy Got His Poop Back" | [65] | |
Faraway Downs | The Drover/ Jack Clancy | Recurring role; alternate cut of Australia (2008 film) | [66] | |
2024 | Megafauna | Narrator | 2 episodes | [67] |
Marvel Studios: Assembled | Himself | Episode: "The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine " | [68] |
Year | Title | Artist | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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2024 | "Chk Chk Boom" | Stray Kids | Wolverine | Cameo | [85] |
Credits adapted from AllMusic: [86]
Musical albums
Title | Year |
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Beauty and the Beast | 1995 |
Oklahoma! | 1999 |
The Boy from Oz | 2003 |
Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 5 | |
Broadway: The American Musical | 2004 |
Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005 | 2005 |
Broadway Today: Broadway, 1993-2005 | |
The 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Broadway | 2006 |
Broadway Gold Decca | 2007 |
Soundtrack albums
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |||||||||
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AUS | CAN | FRA | GER | IRL | JAP | NZ | KOR | UK | US | |||
Happy Feet: Music from the Motion Picture |
| 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| 2 [87] | 3 [88] | 81 [89] | 18 [90] | 1 [91] | 11 [92] | 1 [93] | 1 [94] | 1 [95] | 1 [96] | |
Fly: Songs Inspired by the Film "Eddie the Eagle" |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |
| 1 [101] | 3 [102] | — | 5 [103] | 1 [104] | 1 [105] | 1 [106] | 17 [107] | 1 [108] | 1 [109] |
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AUS [117] | IRE [118] | FRA [119] | NZ [120] | UK [121] | US [122] | ||||||||
"The Greatest Show" (with Zac Efron, Zendaya, Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) | 2017 | 42 | 34 | 110 | — [a] | 20 | 88 | The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |||||
"A Million Dreams" (with Michelle Williams and Ziv Zaifman) | — | 45 | 199 | — | 22 | — | |||||||
"A Million Dreams (Reprise)" (with Austyn Johnson and Cameron Seely) | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
"Come Alive" (with Zendaya, Keala Settle, Daniel Everidge and The Greatest Showman Ensemble) | — | 70 | — | — [b] | 55 | — [c] | |||||||
"The Other Side" (with Zac Efron) | — | 54 | — | — | 48 | — | |||||||
"From Now On" (with The Greatest Showman Ensemble) | — | 65 | — | — | 71 | — | |||||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. |
Title | Year | Voice role | Notes | Ref. |
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X2: Wolverine's Revenge | 2003 | Logan / Wolverine | Likeness only; Logan / Wolverine voiced by Mark Hamill | [131] |
Van Helsing | 2004 | Gabriel Van Helsing | [131] | |
X-Men: The Official Game | 2006 | Logan / Wolverine | [131] | |
X-Men Origins: Wolverine | 2009 | [131] |
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