Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor, producer and singer known for his diverse leading man roles onstage and screen. Jackman has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. He was inducted in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012, received a Special Tony Award in 2012, and earned the Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
Jackman won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture â Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the musical epic Les Misérables (2012) and received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor, the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role. He was Globe-nominated for his roles as a time traveler in the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), P. T. Barnum in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), and an emotional father in the drama The Son (2022). For his role as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise he won four MTV Movie Awards, four People's Choice Awards, and a Saturn Award.
On stage, Jackman won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role in the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz (2004). He Tony-nominated for playing Prof. Harold Hill in the Meredith Willson musical revival The Music Man (2022). On the West End stage he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for playing Curly McLain in the revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! (1999). He also won a Drama Desk Award, two Drama League Awards, a Theater World Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and five Mo Awards.
For his roles on television, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing a corrupt superintendent in the HBO film Bad Education (2019). He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for hosting the 2005 Tony Awards. Jackman hosted the Tony Awards 4 times: in 2003, 2004, 2005, & 2014, plus hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2008