Age: 57
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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
Nathaniel Essex
for Nathaniel Essex in The X-Men: Rise and Fall
Suggested by underworld_stories
On their last legs, the final fight for all that is good, there is no hope but they still go on. Iceman, Rogue, Beast, Mystique, Juggernaut, Jean Grey, all dead within a week. Mr. Sinister, Nathaniel Essex has risen, a product of the Mutant Control Agency's interference with the way mutants are created. Wolverine, Cyclops, Gambit, Colossus, Spider-Man, Captain America, and Magneto have to get into Essex tower before they use the Scarlet Witch to turn the population of the Earth into mutants, to show humans they are inferior. They launch a full scale assault on Essex tower as they push their way to the Center Room where Quicksilver and Pyro are waiting for them. Pyro reveals he killed Iceman causing Spider-Man to go after Pyro. Meanwhile the rest turn their attention to Quicksilver knowing he could kill them all instantly. Cyclops and Wolverine sneak off to go face Mr. Sinister while Colossus, Gambit, Captain America, and Magneto take on Quicksilver. The fight is intense and Quicksilver kills Colossus and Captain America but just then Mangeto gets close enough to talk to Quicksilver, Quicksilver reveals he's Magneto's son and Magneto says "I know" and send a metal bar through the back of his head, killing him. Cyclops and Magneto get to the top and see Charles Xavier in a coma, and Scarlet Witch killing Mr. Sinister due to the sudden death of her brother. Cyclops goes to stop her but he's shredded and Mr. Sinister is killed. Scarlet Witch whispers the words "Only Mutants".
