Hugh Jackman, who started off his career starring in a series of stage musicals in Australia and in London’s West End including Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, and Oklahoma!, celebrates his birthday October 12. He made his Broadway debut and won a Tony Award playing Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz in 2003, earned an Academy Award nomination as Jean Valjean in the 2012 film version of Les Misérables, and has hosted the Tony Awards four times. He was last seen on Broadway in The River.
Jackman is set to star in the upcoming revival of The Music Man alongside Sutton Foster. The production is slated to begin performances December 2021.
Debra Byrne and Hugh Jackman in Sunset Boulevard (Australia, 1996)
Catherine Porter and Hugh Jackman in Sunset Boulevard (Australia, 1996)
Hugh Jackman in Sunset Boulevard (Australia, 1996)
Debra Byrne and Hugh Jackman in Sunset Boulevard (Australia, 1996)
Hugh Jackman and Catherine Porter in Sunset Boulevard (Australia, 1996)
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster and cast of The Music Man
Phillip Boykin, Nicholas Ward, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Torres, and Eddie Korbich in The Music Man
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, and cast of The Music Man