Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian film producer, and film, television and stage actor, known for playing Wolverine in X-Men and its sequels, and for his Tony Award-winning performance on Broadway in The Boy from Oz.

Jackman was born in Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the youngest of five children of English-born parents Chris Jackman and Grace Watson.

Jackman married actress Deborra-Lee Furness in April 1996. They met on the set of his first TV acting job in Correlli, an Australian television program. Jackman played an angry prisoner who fell in love with his counsellor, played by Furness. The couple suffered through two miscarriages, after which they adopted two children, son Oscar Maximillian and daughter Ava Eliot. They currently live in Melbourne.

Jackman is a known supporter of the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League. He also reportedly supports English soccer team Norwich City FC due to his mother hailing from Norfolk, UK.

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