Hugh Jackman | Born in 1968

Hugh Jackman has gained the label of “A-lister” since his professional acting debut in the Australian drama Law of the Land and his first appearance in X-Men. Despite spending most of the film concealed behind some seriously odd hair, he found himself and his much-photographed face a popular commodity in Hollywood.

Jackman only began to consider acting as a career after taking his first theater class to meet credit requirements during his last year at the University of Technology Sydney. Soon after, he landed roles in television shows like Correlli and Blue Heelers. In the same year he played Curly in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, he made his feature film debut in Paperback Hero. He made his screen debut as Wolverine in the Marvel Comics movie X-Men a year later, doing justice to the mutant with steel claws and a terrible attitude.