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The Jackmans Migrate to Australia
Jackman's parents, originally from England, moved to Australia during the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme (1945-1982), otherwise known as the Ten-Pounds Poms. This later qualifies the Jackman's two youngest children, whom hadn't been born yet, to have dual citizenship for both England and Australia. -
Hugh Michael Jackman is Born
Hugh Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil and Christopher John Jackman. He has 4 older siblings, making him the youngest in the family. -
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Family Split
At 8 years old, his parents divorced and his father became his and his brothers' primary caretaker. His mother took his two sisters with her back to England, his parents' home country. Jackman eventually gets a younger half-sister from his mother’s remarriage. -
Educational Theatre: Primary School
Jackman attended primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School, where he starred in a production of My Fair Lady. -
Educational Theatre: Secondary School Pt. 1
After taking a gap year to work at Uppingham School (located in England) as a P.E. teacher, Jackman returned to Australia to attend the University of Technology. During his final semester, to fufill his credit requirement, Jackman took a drama course and was cast as the lead in Václav Havel’s The Memorandum. Despite graduating with a BA in Communications, he would later comment “In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years [at university]”. -
Educational Theatre: Secondary School Pt. 2
After graduating from the University of Technology, Jackman completed the one-year course “The Journey” at the Actors’ Centre in Sydney. After its completion and turning down a role on a popular soap opera, he then attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University, eventually graduating in 1994. -
Beauty and the Beast/Sunset Boulevard
Jackman performed as Gaston in a Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. -
Mrs. Deborra-Lee Jackman
Having met each other a year prior on an Australian drama series, Correlli, Hugh and Deborra-Lee got married at St John's in Toorak, Victoria, an area of Melbourne. -
Oklahoma!
Performing Curly from Oklahoma! was a pivotal point in Jackman's career, expanding his talent's reach from Australia as he performed in London's West End. This performance also earned an Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. A year later, he would star in the 1999 film version of this play, which screened in many other countries. -
Wolverine
Originally based on a 1974 comic book, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine first appeared in 2000 in the the movie X-Men. This quickly became one of his most identifiable roles, having him appear as Wolverine in a total of 11 movies to date (including 2024's Deadpool 3). -
Adpotion and Parenting
After many previous attempts at pregnancy, the couple decided to adopt their son Oscar, born in May of 2000. Later in 2005, they would also welcome their daughter, Ava, born in July of 2005, into their family. -
Turning Down James Bond
Before Daniel Craig was cast as the James Bond we know today, the role was originally offered to Hugh Jackman. Jackman ended up turning the offer down to focus on X-Men 2, later telling the British Press Association in a 2011 interview that "...Wolverine had become this thing in my life and I didn’t want to be doing two such iconic characters at once.” -
Happy Feet/Flushed Away
Jackman rounded out his 2006 by voice acting for two entirely different movies. He played Memphis, an emperor penguin and the father to the main character in Happy Feet, and Roddy, a rat and main protagonist in Flushed Away. -
Australia
Cast to replace Russel Crowe as the male lead in Baz Luhrmann's romantic historical drama Australia, Hugh Jackman described his experience with this production as "...one of those roles that had me pinching myself all the way through the shoot...I’ll die a happy man knowing I’ve got this film on my CV.” Later that year, People Magazine names Jackman as 2008's "Sexiest Man Alive". -
Rise of the Guardians
Jackman voice acted in Rise of the Guardians as E. Aster Bunnymund, otherwise known as the Easter Bunny. -
Les Misérables
After going back to his theatric roots with A Steady Rain at Schoenfeld Theatre and Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway at Broadhurst Theatre, Hugh starred in Les Misérables as Jean Valjean in it's filmed version. The film's first public screening was on December 25, 2012. -
Pan, A Box Office Failure
In 2015, Jackman performed as Blackbeard in Joe Wright's movie Pan, based of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Captain Hook. Even with a fifteen hundred million dollar ($150,000,000) budget, the movie ratings sunk and caused a twenty-one million, six hundred eleven thousand, six hundred eighty dollar (-$21,611,680) deficit. The total revenue reached only one hundred twenty-eight million, three hundred eighty-eight thousand, three hundred twenty dollars ($128,388,320). -
The Greatest Showman
In 2017, Hugh Jackman starred at P. T. Barnum in the movie musical The Greatest Showman. He received his third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. -
The Man. The Music. The Show.
On May 7th, in Glasgow, Scotland, Jackman opened his first world tour The Man. The Music. The Show. After 88 performances in Europe, Oceania, and North America, the world tour's closing night was on October 15th, in San Antonio, United States. -
Ex- Mrs. Jackman
After 27 years of marriage, Hugh and Deborra-Lee announce their intentions of divorce. A statement from the two of them talks about their mutual agreement to part ways in pursuit of their individual passions. -
Sources Pt. 2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3332064/fullcredits https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/266647-pan https://apnews.com/video/hugh-jackman-new-york-national-12311d365f40460f83726e2f679aef79 https://forms.studyusa.com/influencers/hugh-jackman-support-israel.html https://ceiic.socialalpha.org/wmt51/hugh-jackman-support-israel.html https://www.looktothestars.org/celebrity/hugh-jackman -
Charity Work and Political Stances
Hugh Jackman has done a lot of charity work in his lifetime, supporting various causes such as the fight against AIDS, cancer, poverty, and many more. Despite all of these works of good, Jackman has expressed support towards Israel during their ongoing genocide towards Palestine through his words, actions, and financial contributions. -
Sources Pt. 1
https://hugh-jackman.com/hughjackman/ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/13/ten-pound-poms-the-invisible-migrants-who-made-australia-their-home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Jackman https://www.smoothradio.com/news/entertainment/hugh-jackman-age-wife-children-movies/ https://www.biography.com/actors/hugh-jackman https://screenrant.com/wolverine-xmen-films-chronological-order/ https://people.com/parents/all-about-hugh-jackman-kids/