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| Real Name: Jude Law | ||||
| Birthday: Dec. 29, 1972 | ||||
| Place of Birth: Lewisham, England | ||||
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Jude Law Biography: Golden boy and British artist Jude Law has been able to widen his talents into an esteemed actor known for playing difficult and often blemished characters. Though he stumbled a little early on in his profession to make a name for himself, Jude Law ultimately shot onto the scene full blast with his Oscar nominated role in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (1999)starring alongside Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. From there, Jude Law was unexpectedly everywhere onscreen, playing the role of a Russian shooter fighting a Nazi sharpshooter during the Battle of Stalingrad in “Enemy at the Gates” (2001), a battered murderer with a lust for photography in “Road to Perdition” (2002) featuring Tom Hanks and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and then a confederate soldier assumed dead and under pressure to make it home in “Cold Mountain” (2003) with Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger. Though Jude Law was regularly the subject of tabloid chatter, due in part to his relationship with starlet Sienna Miller, Jude nevertheless kept his calm.
A starring role in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" led to his television introduction in a musical based on Beatrix Potter's "The Tailor of Gloucester" (1990). That same year, Law left his schooling behind for the British soap, "Families.” Ten months later, Jude ended the show and returned to the stage, touring Italy as Freddie in "Pygmalion" and making a run in London with "The Fastest Clock in the Universe.” In 1994, Law made an impact on movie goers in London and New York, as a young man dealing with his oppressive parents in "Les Parents Terrible,” mainly for an extensive nude shower scene in the 2nd act which showed complete with a nude Jude law. Making a large impact, he was the only ensemble player of the English creation asked to play his role on Broadway, including the nude scene, and was flattered with a Tony Award nomination for his work. Jude Law's first movie role, playing a submissive car thieving street kid in "Shopping" (1994), about a group of young teens, led by a recently released joy rider and his disenchanted Belfast girlfriend. This started an awkward pattern for Law's early film career during much of the 1990s, during which he offered strong characters in dull films. Often spoke of as the next big thing, Jude would find himself swiftly added to the "Who is he again?" list after a number of second-rate movies. In 1997, Law offered three assorted roles, the flawed Lord Alfred Douglas in the poorly developed drama "Wilde” the story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. Next the actor played a hard drinking cripple in "Gattaca" with Uma Thurman, and a gay lover who ends up a murder victim in the acclaimed "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” In all roles, Jude added force and personality to the film, but each movie failed to hit upon much critical support.
Law's losing streak seemed never ending, with the scarcely released "Music From Another Room,” with Jude starring as an artist who meets up with a woman, and "The Wisdom of Crocodiles" (1998 - 2000), as a vampire in London who is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him. While many thought that David Cronenberg's science fiction adventure "eXistenZ" starring Jennifer Jason Leigh (1999) would finally shoot Law onto the A-list, it was not received well by mainstream audiences. Jude Law finally got a break when Anthony Minghella asked him to portray self-indulgent player Dickie Greenleaf, who became an object of desire to Matt Damon's "The Talented Mr. Ripley” with Cate Blanchett and Gwyneth Paltrow - set in the late 1950's New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Europe to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley kills the playboy and begins to assume his life. Prior to the release of "Ripley,” Jude Law went back to the London stage and received rave reviews for "'Tis Pity She's a Whore," as well as launching his directors debut with an anthology television movie "Tube Tales" (1999). Next to his wife Sadie Frost, who Jude had starred with in "Shopping", and best friends Johnny Lee Miller, Wean McGregor and Sean Pertwee, Law created the management and production company "Natural Nylon", with a host of movies in assorted stages of production. Hollywood was searching for Jude Law again in 2001 for a leading part in "Enemy at the Gates." His outstanding role quickly led to a movie part as a hustler android in Steven Spielberg's greatly awaited "A.I." From there, Law would become a very popular player in the middle of Hollywood royalty. In 2002, Jude had a supporting part as a homicidal photographer next to Tom Hanks in "Road to Perdition,” prior to coming into his own as a leading male in 2003 when he took over the lead role from Tom Cruise in Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain," opposite Nicole Kidman and Renee Zellweger in the variation of Charles Frazer's best selling Civil War adventure. Playing confederate army traitor Inman, who escapes his unit to revisit his adored Ada (Nicole Kidman) at Cold Mountain and faces unbelievable suffering on his long, traumatic journey home. Law was an absolutely authentic and believable film presence. The actors job was rewarded with a round of critical reviews, including an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor, and a Golden Globe nomination.
Jude Law then appeared in the Mike Nichols directed adventure "Closer" (2004) next to Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen as a pair of friends whose relationships become chaotically entangled, the performance was Law's finest of the busy year. The actor also had a guest appearance as the polished but wicked Hollywood megastar Errol Flynn in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic, "The Aviator" with an all-star cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale and Gwen Stefani, a biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s. Jude ended the year lending his voice to the title role in the fantasy "Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Series of Events" (2004) starring Jim Carrey as Count Olaf. At the 2005 Oscar awards, Jude Law's now prominent features were infamously lampooned by host Chris Rock. Later on that year, more unnecessary tabloid media hype started when Law released a testimonial apologizing to his Miller, for having a tryst with his child's nanny three months into their seven month engagement. The British and American tabloid media had a feeding frenzy. The couple tried to reunite, but eventually called it quits. In “All the King’s Men” (2006), Steven Zaillian’s repeat of Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Law teamed with a talented cast that included Sean Penn, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Patricia Clarkson and James Gandolfini and based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. Law then starred in a more enjoyable movie, “The Holiday” (2006) (2006), a romantic comedy surrounding two females, British Kate Winslet, the other American Cameron Diaz, whose messy love lives encourage them to cross the ocean and switch homes for the Christmas holiday.
In the meantime, Law teamed with director Anthony Minghella for “Breaking and Entering” (2006), playing a colleague at a prosperous architecture firm who leaves on an expedition of self-discovery, and eventually deliverance, when he searches for the robber that broke into his office and stole all his company’s computer equipment. In the role in “Sleuth” (2007), Law played Milo Tindle, a hairdresser being conned by Andrew Wyke, a more mature and well-off society man trying to find retribution on Tindle for taking his wife. Next for Jude Law was the romantic comedy "My Blueberry Nights" (2007) about a young woman who takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. Next for Jude Law is the Johnny Depp and Heath Ledger fantasy adventure "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (2009) featuring Colin Farrell about a traveling theater company who gives its audience much more than they were expecting. Law then returned to his science fiction roots with "Repossession Mambo" (2009) set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. Finishing up 2009 for Jude Law is the action adventure fantasy "King Conqueror" (2009) an epic of the life and battles of James I, King of Aragon, (King Conqueror), in the line of 300. The most renowned of the Spanish medieval kings of Aragon (1213-1276), who added the Balearic Islands and Valencia to his realm and thus initiated the Catalan-Aragonese expansion in the Mediterranean that was to reach its zenith in the last decades of the 14th century. Family
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Born on Dec. 29,
1972 in Lewisham, England, a region in southwestern London, Jude Law was the son
of teachers who encouraged their son to perform at an early age. When only
thirteen years old, Law
started acting with the National Youth Music
Theatre. 
Law's next film
role was the action adventure movie "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (2004) opposite
