Hugh Jackman was born Hugh Michael Jackman AC on October 12, 1968, in Sydney, Australia. He is an Australian by nationality and belongs to the white ethnic race. He is at the moment 53 years old and will be 54 years on October 12, 2022.
Hugh is well-known as an Australian actor who beginning in theatre and television, landed his breakthrough role as James “Logan” Howlett / Wolverine in the 20th Century Fox X-Men film series, a role that earned him the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel character”, until his record was surpassed in 2021.
Hugh Jackman wife
Jackman is a married man who got married to his wife name Deborra-Lee Furness on April 11, 1996, at St. John’s in Toorak, Victoria, which is a suburb of Melbourne. They met on the set of the Australian TV show Correlli.
Jackman personally designed an engagement ring for Furness, and their wedding rings bore the Sanskrit inscription “Om paramar mainamar”, translated as “we dedicate our union to a greater source”. The couple has been married for 26 years now and they live in peace.
Hugh Jackman children
Jackman’s wife Furness had two miscarriages, following which she and Jackman adopted two children namely Oscar Maximilian Jackman and Ava Eliot Jackman. Jackman and his family live in New York.
Hugh Jackman parents
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil his mother and Christopher John Jackman his father who is a Cambridge-educated accountant.
His parents were English and had come to Australia in 1967 as part of the “Ten Pound Poms” immigration scheme.
Thus, in addition to his Australian citizenship, he holds British citizenship by 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.
Hugh Jackman siblings
Jackman has four older siblings and was the second of his parent’s children to be born in Australia. He also has a younger half-sister, from his mother’s remarriage.
Jackman’s 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.
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