
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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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Graham Norton Show

Saturday Night Live

What If...?

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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

The Marvels

The Third Day

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

A Rainy Day in New York

Captain Marvel

Spy

Road to Perdition

Contagion

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Rise of the Guardians

Peter Pan & Wendy

Gattaca

The Holiday

Vox Lux

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Sherlock Holmes

Wilde

Neo Yokio

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Anna Karenina

The Rhythm Section

Side Effects

Genius

Black Rabbit

360

The Order

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Wild Things

The Young Pope

Enemy at the Gates

Eden

Closer

Black Sea

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Alfie

Dom Hemingway

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

Repo Men

The Nest

The New Pope

Cold Mountain
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