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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
Lawrence “Larry” Quinn
for Lawrence “Larry” Quinn in The Cat in the Hat (Illumination version)
Suggested by joseortiz
When a large, cunning, troublemaking, Who cat in a hat from another world has been kicked out of his home because of his frustrating antics and causing mischief everywhere he goes, he gets sent to the lively city of Anville through a big magical red crate, to perform a community service to whomever needs his help so he can make up for his actions with the condition of returning if he successfully completes the task. The Cat soon learns of two siblings with nothing fun to do and obviously need help putting on happy faces while their mother is at work. Eventually, the Cat manages to entertain the kids, doing lots of fun activities and even bonding with them. But in the process of taking things to the next level, The Cat and the kids accidentally wreck the house, lose the family dog and the red crate the Cat came through. So they set out to find them with the help of The Cat’s companions, Thing 1 and Thing 2, the family fish, and some of the kids’ friends from school. Little did they know that their amazing, wacky adventure they are about to embark on will increase twice the fun and excitement.
