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Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is a Australian-American actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing it across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019. Jackman has headlined films in various genres, including the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the science fiction Real Steel (2011), the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Jackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Hugh Jackman
Wolverine
for Wolverine in Marvel Cinematic Universe (2000s)
Suggested by andrewmmovies
Here is a general 1:1 recreation of the real life marvel phase structure I created to best of my ability. I decided Wolverine, Spider-Man and Hulk would replace the MCU big three of Iron-Man, Captain America and Thor. The development of this structure would be based either on Marvel never selling film rights or the combined interests of these seperate studios to share a universe (similar to the Disney/Sony deal) Phase 1: X:Men (2000) Iron-Man (2000) Spider-Man (2002) X2 (2003) Hulk (2003) Avengers Assemble (2004) Phase 2: X-Men: Dark Pheonix (2005) Spider-Man 2 (2005) Hulk 2 (2006) Fantastic Four (2006) Avengers: Age Of Ultron (2007) Spider-Man 3 (2007) Phase 3: Marvel's House Of M (2008) Captain America (2008) Fantastic Four Vol. 2 (2009) Wolverine (2009) Hulk 3 (2009) Spider-Man 4 (2010) Marvel's Secret Wars: Part I (2010) Marvel's Secret Wars: Part II (2011) With this we lose out on a lot of great films. The entire MCU Phase 1 built up this first Avengers film, however I felt it would be too high of a stake to attempt to crossover Wolverine, Spider-Man and Hulk in the first phase. Rather I look at the development of Iron-Man and Hulk in the first phase and will see Captain America as the main character of that first Avengers film. Something this Cinematic universe will have to specialise in is films about Superhero groups. I argue the best way to do this is to prioritise one main character within the group and develop the other characters from that. As more characters are developed, we can build up to Secret Wars Part one and two based off the 80s comic, as the Jonathan Hickman run wouldn't exist yet.
