Michael Jackman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Jackman
Occupation	Actor
Date Of Birth	Oct 12, 1968(1968-10-12)
Age	56
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Libra

Michael Jackman Biography

Michael Jackman is one of the most popular and richest Actor who was born on October 12, 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Australian actor, best known for his role as Wolverine in X-Men films. He’d be seen as Gary Hart in The Front Runner in 2018. He has also appeared in Prisoners, The Prestige and Les Miserables. He is also known for Pan, Van Helsing, and Pan.

He was a star alongside He starred alongside Christian Bale in The Prestige. on The Prestige.

Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (née Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, a Cambridge-educated accountant. His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the “Ten Pound Poms” immigration. Thus, in addition to his Australian citizenship, Jackman holds British citizenship by virtue of being born to UK-born parents. One of his paternal great-grandfathers, Nicholas Isidor Bellas, was Greek, from the Ottoman Empire (now in Greece). His parents were devout Christians, having been converted by Evangelist Billy Graham after their marriage. Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of his parents’ children to be born in Australia. He also has a younger half-sister, from his mother’s remarriage. His parents divorced when he was eight, and Jackman remained in Australia with his father and two brothers, while his mother moved back to England with Jackman’s two sisters. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending much time at the beach and on camping trips and school holidays all over Australia. He wanted to see the world saying, “I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I’d been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job.”

Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian–British actor, singer, and producer. He is best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men film series from 2000 to 2018, a role for which he holds the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero”. Jackman is also recognised for his lead roles in films such as the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action film Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the fantasy drama The Fountain (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the film version of Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), and the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album. For playing Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Along with his four siblings, he was raised as a Christian devout Christian. In April 1996, he married actress Deborra Lee Furness and they adopted two children, a son called Oscar and a girl named Ava.

Michael Jackman Net Worth

Michael Jackman is one of the richest Actor from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Jackman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While growing up in Australia, he attended Pymble Public School. To attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, he turned down a part on Neighbours.

In 2009, he hosted the 81st Academy Awards ceremony.

Jackman portrayed three different characters in Darren Aronofsky’s science- fiction film The Fountain: Tommy Creo, a neuroscientist, who is torn between his wife, Izzi (Rachel Weisz), who is dying of a brain tumor, and his work at trying to cure her; Captain Tomas Creo, a Spanish conquistador in 1532 Seville; and a future astronaut, Tom, travelling to a golden nebula in an eco- spacecraft seeking to be reunited with Izzi. Jackman said The Fountain was his most difficult film thus far due to the physical and emotional demands of the part.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Michael Jackman Dating?

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On the night of his final Academy graduation performance, Jackman received a phone call offering him a role on Correlli: “I was technically unemployed for thirteen seconds.” Correlli, devised by Australian actress Denise Roberts, was a 10-part drama series on ABC, Jackman’s first major professional job, and where he met his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. “Meeting my wife was the greatest thing to come out of it,” he said, as the show lasted only one season. After Correlli Jackman went on the stage in Melbourne. In 1996, Jackman played Gaston in the local Walt Disney production of Beauty and the Beast, and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard. During his stage musical career in Melbourne, he starred in the 1998 Midsumma festival cabaret production Summa Cabaret. He also hosted Melbourne’s Carols by Candlelight and Sydney’s Carols in the Domain. Jackman’s early film works include Erskineville Kings and Paperback Hero (1999), and his television work includes Law of the Land, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers, and Banjo Paterson’s The Man from Snowy River.

Facts & Trivia

Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Michael Jackman celebrates birthday on October 12 of every year.

Jackman supports the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League and once gave the team a pep talk prior to a Showdown clash. He is also a long-time fan and supporter of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, a National Rugby League (NRL) club based in Sydney’s north. He sang the Australian national anthem at the 1999 NRL Grand Final.