Articles and Interviews

In celebration of Climate Week, kicking off in New York today, Vulture hero Hugh Jackman took time away from his grueling rehearsal schedule for Broadway's 'A Steady Rain' to speak at a U.N. press conference on green living
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Actor and World Vision Ambassador Hugh Jackman has joined forces with The Climate Group, Mayor Bloomberg, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to support Climate Week NYC, a week-long series of events being held throughout New York City from September 20-26 that will address the urgent need for action on climate change...Read More »

To paraphrase a line from the movie "Stand by Me," could James Bond beat up Wolverine? Or would the “X-Men” mutant’s metal claws dice 007’s Brioni suits faster than he could say “shaken, not stirred”?...Read More »

Aussie hunk Hugh Jackman may make a living tearing things to shreds on the big screen, but on the domestic front it's an entirely different matter. When he's not making hearts flutter in the nation's cineplexes, Jackman can usually be found spending quality time with his two children, 8-year-old son Oscar Maximillian and four-year-old daughter Ava Eliot, whom he adopted with wife Deborra-Lee Furness...Read More »

Hugh Jackman is having a hell of a year. In the autumn he was declared 'People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive'. In February he hosted the Oscars. And this week he has the lead in 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine', the film that officially kicks off the summer blockbuster season. We spoke with him recently about Wolverine, his workout routine, musical theatre and birth order psychology...Read More »

Australian actor Hugh Jackman has been on a whirlwind publicity tour for his blockbuster movie "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," an "X-Men" spinoff/prequel that tells the back story of his Wolverine character, a half-man, half-wolf mutant with superhero powers...Read More »

Ten years ago when we first met, Hugh Jackman was barely known. How the mighty have risen. Yet, as anyone who knows the laconic Aussie actor, also knows that you see is what you get. The actor has not changed despite his extraordinary success...Read More »

"To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me, not success," says Hugh Jackman when we meet for a late lunch in Beverly Hills. Bronzed and brawny, the 40-year-old Australian wears a blue polo shirt that fits him as comfortably as his ready smile...Read More »

Hugh Jackman has truly made his mark on Hollywood history, with his hand and footprints recorded in cement today....Read More »

X-MEN star Hugh Jackman lived up to his action-man reputation yesterday — by abseiling off The Sun’s HQ in aid of Help for Heroes...Read More »

While many celebrities are using Twitter to build their fanbase, Hugh Jackman has decided to redeem the technology by using it for charity. During an interview on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show, the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” stud revealed that he would give $100,000 to the person who Twittered him with the best charity idea...Read More »

Given the choice, what would be your superpower? As star of new comic-book movie spin-off Wolverine, Hugh Jackman went for lupine claws, an unassailable exo-skeleton... and a wolfish grin (or was that just left over from his recent gig with Nicole Kidman?)...Read More »

"It's been hilarious," says the 40-year-old actor, who just last month wrapped X-Men Origins: Wolverine. "I don't know if the other billion people who watch it will find it funny but I'm finding it hysterical right now. I'm having the time of my life"...Read More »

Hugh Jackman says he knows the Oscars ceremony isn't about him, but he'd better enjoy it all the same. "Celebration is the key. I'm certainly going to have a good time. If I'm not going to have a good time, how the hell is anybody else?"...Read More »

He never would have admitted it back then, but after hosting the Tony Awards from 2003 to '05, Hugh Jackman secretly hoped that someday, maybe, he'd be tapped to emcee an even grander event: the Oscars. ''In my wildest dreams, I didn't think it would be for another decade — in the best scenario,'' says the 40-year-old actor, who actually won an Emmy for his 2004 Tony gig. Then, last month, when Jackman was in England promoting Australia, the phone rang in the middle of the night...Read More »

Hey folks, Harry here... Apparently Hugh tried to send this to me yesterday. I never received his email. Today, a concerned fairy godmother connected loosely between myself and the man-god Hugh Jackman, tells me that apparently I'm ignoring an email from Hugh Jackman...Read More »

If playing a gay entertainer on Broadway led Hollywood to question Jackman’s leading man credentials, his performance as a red-blooded cowboy in Australia has settled the argument...Read More »

Hugh Jackman has always relied on the kindness of strangers. And the instability and fragility of other actors. If it wasn’t for Dougray Scott doing himself an injury, Jackman wouldn’t have landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine in the lucrative comic book franchise X-Men...Read More »

At a time when Hollywood is trying to broaden the list of stars who can open big-budget films, 20th Century Fox is betting heavily on Hugh Jackman. He stars alongside Nicole Kidman in Australia, a Baz Luhrmann–directed film that is not only the biggest movie ever shot in Jackman’s native country but also the most ambitious period romance since Titanic...Read More »

Hugh Jackman has defended himself against ongoing rumors questioning his sexuality, despite being married to wife Deborra-Lee Furness for 12 years, admitting he used to be the worst kind of straight guy...Read More »

He's a triple threat: a star who can sing, dance and wield a weapon. At 6 ft. 2 in., all scruff and biceps, Hugh Jackman looms large in the epic Australia, which he says kept him "dirty 95 percent of the time" and left people stammering...Read More »

Australian star of screen and stage Hugh Jackman received two prestigious awards from the University of Technology, Sydney at a gala dinner last night marking the University’s 20th anniversary...Read More »

“I’ve always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away,” Hugh Jackman says. “It diminishes people. So I’ve always said ‘yes’ to the thing I’m most scared about”...Read More »

It was all over the blogosphere last month when Punk’d hooligan Ashton Kutcher pulled the wool over X-Men star Hugh Jackman. With the new Punk’d season underway, I thought we’d take a look at what Hugh had to say about being bamboozeled...Read More »

He's given away 100 copies of one book, restructured his production company because of another: The actor talks about the novels and memoirs that revved him up and pointed him toward his own path and passion...Read More »

Hey ladies (and guys who think he’s hot): Wanna meet Hugh Jackman? It’s easy, though it could be expensive and a little embarrassing...Read More »

What breed of showbiz animal is this spectacularly studly specimen of Australian he-manhood known as Hugh Jackman?...Read More »

David Furnish: This has been a pretty incredible year for you. You’re seven months into your Broadway run of The Boy From Oz, a role for which you’ve been universally acclaimed, and you have a new film coming out this month called Van Helsing. Let’s start by talking about the show. How’s it going...Read More »

Jackman discusses the return to X-Men, reactions of fans, X-Men merchandise, and what's up next for him on Broadway and in film, all while wearing those really cool claws. Okay, so he wasn't wearing the claws...Read More »

After playing an 18th century Duke with impeccable manners in Kate & Leopold, Hugh Jackman is hoeing into the tuna to bulk up for his role as Wolverine in X-Man 2, he tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo, but the romance thing has rubbed off...Read More »

He’s called one the sexiest men alive (as per the magazine photo shoots) but Hugh Jackman still takes out the garbage, he tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo, even after co-starring with Ashley Judd, Meg Ryan and John Travolta...Read More »

How does Hugh Jackman feel on the verge of international superstardom? Calm and perhaps a little naïve. Or as they say in vaudeville, ‘I’m living in Egypt, right next to Denial!’ he tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo...Read More »