Jude Law

Jude Law

Birthdate: 29th December, 1972
Birthplace: Lewisham, London, England, UK



David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director. He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2000 he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for his work in the film. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film, Cold Mountain. In 2006, he was one of the top ten most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and he was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the main competition jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.


David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.

He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2000 he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for his work in the film. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film, Cold Mountain.

In 2006, he was one of the top ten most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and he was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. In April 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the main competition jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

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Filmography

Captain Marvel (2019)

The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a...

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical...

National Theatre Live: Obsession (2017)

Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Giuseppe and...

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young...

Anna Karenina (2012)

Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

Rise of the Guardians (2012)

When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first...

Contagion (2011)

An action-thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room - until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large... Professor...

Hugo (2011)

Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and a robot.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

Set in the present day, director Terry Gilliam's fantastical morality tale follows the traveling show of the mysterious Dr. Parnassus...

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series...

Sleuth (2007)

In 1972, Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine starred in the screen adaptation of SLEUTH, based on Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning...

My Blueberry Nights (2007)

In Wong Kar Wai's debut English language feature, the internationally acclaimed director takes his audience on a dramatic journey across...

All the King's Men (2006)

Based on Robert Penn Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, All the King's Men tells the story of an idealist's rise to power in...

Breaking and Entering (2006)

BREAKING AND ENTERING tells the story of a series of thefts -- some criminal, some emotional -- set against a backdrop of London's...

The Holiday (2006)

Two women, one (Cameron Diaz) from America and one (Kate Winslet) from Britain, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with...

Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow (2004)

This film was billed last year as the pinnicle of Artistic Cinematogrpahy and Computer Technology. The result is not quite that good,...

Alfie (2004)

WHAT IS IT WITH JUDE LAW - THAT MAN IS A MACHINE! Jude Law must be in some kind of blackmail situation where he needs to pay...

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Space, Time, You, and Me? What does it all mean? Who are you, who am I? I don’t know what it’s all about, but this movie might. I Heart...

Closer (2004)

Road to Perdition (2002)

This is the second film from Sam Mendes, the man who brought us American Beauty (which I will say I am not a huge fan of). This though...

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