Jude Law
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Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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).
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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.
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Known For
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Emmy Awards
What If...?
The Early Show
The Daily Show
Sherlock Holmes
Marvel Studios Legends
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Toast of London
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Marvels
Loving Highsmith
The Oscars
Hugo
The Aviator
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
I ♥ Huckabees
Captain Marvel
A Rainy Day in New York
Contagion
Spy
The Holiday
The Third Day
Gattaca
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Peter Pan & Wendy
Rise of the Guardians
Vox Lux
Road to Perdition
The Talented Mr. Ripley
360
The Rhythm Section
Sherlock Holmes
Wilde
Black Rabbit
Side Effects
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Neo Yokio
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Anna Karenina
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Genius
Eden
The Young Pope
Black Sea
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
The Nest
The New Pope
Repo Men
Dom Hemingway
The Order
Wild Things
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Enemy at the Gates
Closer
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Alfie
Cold Mountain
Production Credits
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