Jude Law
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Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. He has received multiple awards including a BAFTA Film Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Born and raised in London, Law started acting in theatre. After finding small roles in feature films, Law gained 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. He found further critical and commercial success in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002). He continued to gain praise for starring in the war film Cold Mountain (2003), the drama Closer (2004), and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), gaining Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the first of these.
Law played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a younger Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. His other notable roles were in Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015); and the television series The Young Pope (2016) and The New Pope (2020).
Law has also had an accomplished career on stage, performing in several West End and Broadway productions such as Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. He received Tony Award nominations for the first and second of these.
Law's Riff Raff Entertainment, founded with business partner Ben Jackson, inked a first-look deal for both feature films and television production with New Republic Pictures on April 13, 2021.
Known For
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
What If...?
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Honest Trailers
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 Marvels
Loving Highsmith
The Oscars
Hugo
The Aviator
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
I ♥ Huckabees
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Contagion
Captain Marvel
Spy
A Rainy Day in New York
Road to Perdition
Rise of the Guardians
The Holiday
Gattaca
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Peter Pan & Wendy
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Genius
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Side Effects
Vox Lux
Anna Karenina
Neo Yokio
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Sherlock Holmes 3
The Rhythm Section
Sherlock Holmes
Closer
Wilde
Black Rabbit
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Repo Men
The Young Pope
The Nest
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
Alfie
Enemy at the Gates
The Third Day
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Cold Mountain
Eden
The New Pope
Dom Hemingway
The Order
Production Credits
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