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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
James Howlett Logan
for James Howlett Logan in The X-Files:
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Following events of the first season, Charles, Hank and Erik continue thier quest to find more about the X Gene and the mutants. Set in the 90's, thier quest leads them to knowledge of various human experimentations on the mutants like those of Stryker. At the helm of it, is Sebastian Shawa , an ex-Hydra scientist who has managed to survive old age and death using mutant gene manipulation and intends to use them as weapons for the future. He's revealed as one of the scientists who tortured Erik in the Nazi camps and killed his mother in order to bring out his true power. Today, he and a group of mutants are causing global attacks . Charles is concerned about the effects of the attacks on an already tabooed and marginalised mutant population, meanwhile Erik is driven by revenge against the person who ruined his life. Towards the end, they manage to defeat the rogue mutants but Erik kills Shaw and vows for revenge against the human population who have been experimenting,killing and marginalising the mutants simply because they were different yet more powerful. Erik and Charles have a grave difference in opinion leading to the end of thier long friendship and trust. Charles who was injured in the spine during the fight, is handicapped and on wheelchair. He doesn't give up on the human race and decides to set up a centre for nurturing and bringing up mutants to live in harmony with the normal population , under secrecy so that they're not persecuted.
