Jude Law
English actor celebrated for a distinguished career spanning theatre, television, and film across more than three decades.
Jude Law - Personal Information
- Name: Jude Law
- Date of Birth: December 29, 1972
- Place of Birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Executive Producer, Producer, Director
Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category.
Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter.
In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Selected Filmography
A selection of Jude Law's most recent and notable screen appearances across film and television.
- Untitled Nancy Meyers Film (2027)
- The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026) as Vladimir Putin
- Black Rabbit (TV - 2025) as Jake Friedken
- Eden (2025) as Dr. Friedrich Ritter
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) as Self
- The Order (2024) as Terry Husk
- Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (TV - 2024) as Jod Na Nawood
- Firebrand (2024) as Henry VIII
- Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma (TV - 2023) as Self - Guest
- Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) as James Hook
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