Celebrity Biographies
Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman has become known thanks to his role as Wolverine in the X-Men saga . It was his first job in Hollywood and the success achieved seems to be the work of his superpowers. But the mutant was already someone before he had claws, and he is determined to prove that he will be beyond them.
Wolverine has become one of the most popular heroes of recent times. And Hugh Jackman is to blame for this. His role in the X-Men trilogy has helped him to become known internationally. Many would be surprised to find that Jackman had never worked in Hollywood before. And it is that the mecca of cinema gives fame, but the experience was brought by the mutant from Australia. Jackman was born in Sydney in 1968. His first vocation led him to earn a degree in journalism. He soon realized that his real interest lay in acting so he studied drama.
As soon as he graduated, he was offered a role in the television series Correlli (1995), where, in addition to making a name for himself as an actor, he met his wife. Deborra-Lee Furness was the protagonist and from the happy encounter arose a marriage that lasts until today. The cinema would have to wait, because before Jackman demonstrated his worth in the Australian version of the musical ‘Beauty and the Beast’ (1995), where the singing Wolverine played Gaston.
Huhg Jackman’s first contact with the cinema was as a leading man. The fierce Wolverine became a man who wrote romance novels in the comedy Paperback Hero (1999). That same year he starred in the family drama Erskineville Kings . His life continued in Australia, except for ‘Okahoma!’ (1999), a musical in which he starred in London. Then came, or rather did not come, Dougray Scott . The villain from Mission Impossible II did not make it to the filming of X-Men (2000) and Wolverine threw his claws, in extremis, at Jackman, who took the role. The Australian found himself working with Bryan Singer , and alongside actors of the stature of Ian McKellen andHalle Berry .
X-Men opened the doors of Hollywood for him and projects such as Operation Swordfish (2001), where he formed a leading trio with John Travolta and the mutant Halle Berry, began to follow one another. Dating Meg Ryan in James Mangold ‘s Kate & Leopold (2001) ( Walk the Tightrope ) earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
Fans were eager, so Wolverine responded to Singer’s call to shoot X-Men 2 (2003), another blockbuster. Success that accompanied the theater Tony that he received for the Broadway musical ‘The Boy from Oz’. He hadn’t been in Hollywood for four years yet and he was already collecting applause. But Jackman is a family man who never loses sight of his wife or his two adopted children. So in 2004 he starred in the short Standing Room Only , his debut in the direction of his wife. That same year was Van Helsing , where he interestingly was fighting a werewolf under the direction of Stephen Sommers . A year later he received an Emmy for his presentation at the Tony Awards gala.
Jackman made the leap to production with X-Men 3: The Final Stand (2006), in which Brett Ratner made his debut as director of the saga . He is currently in pre-production on Wolverine , a Wolverine movie. This is one of the eight projects that the mutant carries. Scoop , by Woody Allen , has just been released in Spain ; and he has pending The Fountain , by Darren Aronofsky , and The Prestige , by Christopher Nolan .
Looking at the years that he has been in Hollywood, the films and the names with which he has worked, the accounts do not come out. It takes many a lifetime to achieve a tenth of what Wolverine has achieved.