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Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is a Australian-American actor, singer, and producer. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine, playing it across the X-Men film franchise and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from X-Men (2000) to Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Prominent on both screen and stage, he has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019. Jackman has headlined films in various genres, including the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror Van Helsing (2004), the drama The Prestige (2006), the period romance Australia (2008), the science fiction Real Steel (2011), the musical Les Misérables (2012), the thriller Prisoners (2013), the musical The Greatest Showman (2017), the political drama The Front Runner (2018), and the crime drama Bad Education (2019). For his role as Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and for The Greatest Showman soundtrack, Jackman received a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack. He also provided voice roles in the animated films Flushed Away, Happy Feet (both 2006), Rise of the Guardians (2012) and Missing Link (2019). Jackman is also known for his early theatre roles in the original Australian productions of Beauty and the Beast as Gaston in 1995 and Sunset Boulevard as Joe Gillis in 1996. He earned a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for his performance as Curly McLain in the West End revival of Oklahoma! in 1998. In 2002, he made his American stage debut in a concert of Carousel as Billy Bigelow at Carnegie Hall. On Broadway, he won the 2004 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his role of Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. From 2021 to 2023, Jackman starred as con man Harold Hill in the Broadway revival of the musical The Music Man, earning another Tony Award nomination. A four-time host of the Tony Awards, he won an Emmy Award for hosting the 2005 ceremony. He also hosted the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugh Jackman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
After getting kicked out of his home and losing all his friends because he's a mutant, Scott Summers loses the will to live and goes to a bridge to jump, but before he can a man named Eric Lensherr approaches him and tells him of his team where if he joins, he will be loved and accepted and can put the humans who abandoned him to shame. It takes a while to decide but Scott eventually agrees to go with Eric. Throughout the movie Eric makes Scott do terrible things while Scott believes he's doing good. Eric manipulates Scott into becoming the monster the world thinks he is all while telling him things that his family never told him that make him feel accepted. Scott eventually ends up fighting the Iceman and while doing so puts Iceman in a coma. Eventually another guy working with Eric tells Scott that a kid like him shouldn't be there and that Eric is manipulating him. Scott asks why Logan is there and Logan tells him that it's all he can do now. Scott soon realizes that things aren't as they should be, he let his need to feel accepted and will to do what he thought was right cloud his judgment. He turns on Eric leading to a fight between Scott and Logan. Logan tells Sott he should have left, and they start fighting to the death until it's cut short by Jean Grey who had been spying on them and she takes Scott to the X Mansion where Scott meets Charles Xavier. Bobby soon wakes up from his coma and forgives Scott and they decide to work to defeat Eric and his mutants.
