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Hugh Jackman Biography
Hugh Jackman was born on 12 October 1968, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the youngest of five children of English-born Anglican parents. His mother left the family and went back to England when he was eight years old, and he remained behind with his father, an accountant with a degree from Cambridge. Jackman attended Knox Grammar School, an all-boys school in Wahroonga, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with a BA in Communications, having majored in journalism. Jackman's introduction to acting was by accident like many others, as he had to take an acting class as part of the requirements for a college diploma. Jackman became interested in the craft and sadly, a family member had passed on and left Jackman a small inheritance. The inheritance in turn, led to Jackman attending the WAAPA in Perth, where he graduated in 1994.
During Hugh Jackman's stage musical career in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, he hosted both Melbourne's Carols by Candlelight and Sydney's Carols in the Domain.
Jackman married actress Deborra-Lee Furness in February of 1996. They met on the set of his first TV acting job in Corelli, an Australian television program. Jackman played an angry prisoner who fell in love with his counsellor, played by Furness. He and his wife adopted Oscar Maximilian Jackman, who was born on May 15, 2000. They adopted a second child, Ava Eliot Jackman, who was born on July 10, 2005. They currently live in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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