Hugh Jackman filmography and discography

Australian actor Hugh Jackman is known for his leading man roles on stage and screen. Jackman gained stardom for his portrayal of the Marvel Comics superhero Wolverine from the X-Men film series in 10 films starting with X-Men (2000) to most recently, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The role earned him the Guinness World Record for "longest career as a live-action Marvel character", which was later given to Wesley Snipes in the same film.^[1]

Jackman at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017

On film, he won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in the musical epic film Les Misérables (2012). He also portrayed Gabriel Van Helsing in the action film Van Helsing (2004), P. T. Barnum in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), and Gary Hart in the political drama The Front Runner (2018). He took starring roles in the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (2001), the crime comedy Scoop (2006), the thriller The Prestige (2006), the romantic drama The Fountain (2006), the romance adventure Australia (2008), the action film Real Steel (2011), the psychological drama Prisoners (2013), the science-fiction film Reminiscence (2021), and the drama The Son (2022).

Jackman started his career on stage in Australia in Beauty and the Beast (1995), and Sunset Boulevard (1996). He received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical nomination for his breakthrough role as Curly McLain in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical revival Oklahoma! (1998) on the West End. He made his Broadway debut playing Peter Allen in the musical The Boy from Oz (2004) for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He returned to the Broadway stage playing Prof. Harold Hill in the revival of the Meredith Willson musical The Music Man (2021–2023).

He played a corrupt superintendent in the HBO television movie Bad Education (2019). Jackman hosted Saturday Night Live in 2001, the Tony Awards four times: 57th Tony Awards in 2003, 58th Tony Awards in 2004, 59th Tony Awards in 2005, and 68th Tony Awards in 2014, and the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. He has also voiced roles for Big Mouth in 2021, Human Resources from 2022 to 2023, The Simpsons in 2022, and Rick and Morty in 2023.

Acting credits

Film

List of Hugh Jackman film credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1999	Erskineville Kings	Wace		[2]
	Paperback Hero	Jack Willis		[3]
2000	X-Men	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine		[4]
2001	Someone like You	Eddie		[5]
	Swordfish	Stanley Jobson		[6]
	Kate & Leopold	Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Thomas Gareth Mountbatten		[7]
2003	X2	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine		[8]
2004	Van Helsing	Gabriel Van Helsing		[9]
	Van Helsing: The London Assignment		Voice role	[10]
2005	Stories of Lost Souls	Roger	Segment: "Standing Room Only"	[11]
2006	X-Men: The Last Stand	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine		[12]
	Scoop	Peter Lyman		[13]
	The Prestige	Robert Angier and Gerald Root		[14]
	Flushed Away	Roddy St. James	Voice role	[15]
	Happy Feet	Memphis		[16]
	The Fountain	Tomás, Tommy and Tom Creo		[17]
2008	Deception	Wyatt Bose	Also producer	[18]
	Australia	The Drover		[19]
	The Burning Season	Narrator	Documentary film; Voice role	[20]
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine	Also producer	[21]
2011	X-Men: First Class		Uncredited cameo	[22]
	Snow Flower and the Secret Fan	Arthur		[23]
	Real Steel	Charlie Kenton		[24]
2012	Butter	Boyd Bolton		[25]
	Rise of the Guardians	Bunnymund / The Easter Bunny	Voice role	[26]
	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean		[27]
2013	Movie 43	Davis		[28]
	Prisoners	Keller Dover		[29]
	The Wolverine	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine		[30]
2014	X-Men: Days of Future Past			[31]
	Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb	King Arthur / Himself	Uncredited cameo	[32]
2015	Chappie	Vincent Moore		[33]
	Me and Earl and the Dying Girl	Himself	Voice cameo	[34]
	Pan	Blackbeard		[35]
2016	Eddie the Eagle	Bronson Peary		[36]
	X-Men: Apocalypse	James "Logan" Howlett / Weapon X	Uncredited cameo	[37]
2017	Logan	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine and X-24		[38]
	The Greatest Showman	P. T. Barnum		[39]
2018	Deadpool 2	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine	Archival footage from X-Men Origins: Wolverine	[40]
	The Front Runner	Gary Hart		[41]
2019	Missing Link	Sir Lionel Frost	Voice role	[42]
	Bad Education	Frank Tassone		[43]
2021	Free Guy	Masked Player in Alley	Voice cameo	[44]
	Reminiscence	Nicolas "Nick" Bannister		[45]
2022	The Son	Peter Miller		[46]
2024	Deadpool & Wolverine	James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine		[47]
2025	Song Sung Blue †	Mike Sardina	Post-production	[48]
2026	Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie †	George Hardy	Post-production	[49]
TBA	The Death of Robin Hood †	Robin Hood	Post-production	[50]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Television

List of Hugh Jackman television credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1994	Law of the Land	Charles "Chicka" McCray	Episode: "Win, Lose and Draw"
1995	Correlli	Kevin Jones	10 episodes
	Blue Heelers	Brady Jackson	Episode: "Just Desserts"
1996	The Man from Snowy River	Duncan Jones	5 episodes
1998	Halifax f.p.	Eric Ringer	Episode: "Afraid of the Dark"; released on DVD as Profile of a Serial Killer	[51]
1999	Oklahoma!	Curly McLain	Television play	[52]
2001	Saturday Night Live	Himself / Host	Episode: "Hugh Jackman/Mick Jagger"	[53]
2003	57th Tony Awards		Television special	[54]
2004	58th Tony Awards			[55]
2005	59th Tony Awards			[56]
2006	The Chaser's War on Everything	Himself	Footage of him at a press conference being interviewed.	[57]
2007	Viva Laughlin	Nicky Fontana	Episode: "Pilot"; also executive producer	[58]
2009	81st Academy Awards	Himself / Host	Television special	[59]
2011	Saturday Night Live	Daniel Radcliffe	Episode: "Ben Stiller/Foster the People"	[60]
2014	68th Tony Awards	Himself / Host	Television special	[61]
2020	Home Movie: The Princess Bride	Prince Humperdinck	Episode: "Chapter One: As You Wish"	[62]
2021	Big Mouth	Himself (voice)	Episode: "No Nut November"	[63]
2022–2023	Human Resources	Dante the Addiction Angel (voice)	Recurring role	[64]
2022	The Simpsons	Janitor (voice)	Episode: "Poorhouse Rock"	[65]
2023	Koala Man	Big Greg (voice)	Recurring role, 8 episodes	[66]
	Rick and Morty	Himself (voice)	Episode: "How Poopy Got His Poop Back"	[67]
	Faraway Downs	The Drover/Jack Clancy	Recurring role; alternate cut of Australia	[68]
2024	Megafauna	Narrator	2 episodes	[69]
	Marvel Studios: Assembled	Himself	Episode: "The Making of Deadpool & Wolverine"	[70]

Stage performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1994	The Season at Sarsaparilla	Unknown	Australia	[71]
	Thark			[72]
1995–1996	Beauty and the Beast	Gaston	Princess Theatre, Australia	[73]
1996–1997	Sunset Boulevard	Joe Gillis	Regent Theatre, Australia	[74]
1998	Oklahoma!	Curly McLain	Olivier Theatre, West End	[74]
1999			Lyceum Theatre, West End
2002	Carousel	Billy Bigelow	Carnegie Hall, Concert	[75]
2003–2004	The Boy from Oz	Peter Allen	Imperial Theatre, Broadway	[76]
2006			Australia arena tour	[77]
2009	A Steady Rain	Denny	Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, Broadway	[78]
2011	On the Twentieth Century	Oscar Jaffee	Roundabout Theatre Company reading	[79]
	Hugh Jackman: in Performance	Himself	Curran Theatre, San Francisco	[80]
	Hugh Jackman: in Concert		Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto	[81]
	Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway		Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway	[82]
2014	The River	The Man	Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway	[83]
2015	Broadway to Oz	Himself	Australia tour	[84]
2019	The Man. The Music. The Show.		World arena tour	[85]
2021–2023	The Music Man	Professor Harold Hill	Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway	[86]
2025	Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes	Jon	Minetta Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway	[87]

Music

Music video

List of Hugh Jackman music video credits

Year	Title	Artist	Role	Notes	Ref.
2024	"Chk Chk Boom"	Stray Kids	Wolverine	Cameo	[88]

Albums

Credits adapted from AllMusic:^[89]

Musical albums

List of Hugh Jackman musical album credits

Title	Year
Beauty and the Beast	1995
Oklahoma!	1999
The Boy from Oz	2003
Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 5
Broadway: The American Musical	2004
Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005	2005
Broadway Today: Broadway, 1993-2005
The 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Broadway	2006
Broadway Gold Decca	2007

Soundtrack albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions and certifications

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions										Certifications
		AUS	CAN	FRA	GER	IRL	JAP	NZ	KOR	UK	US
Happy Feet: Music from the Motion Picture	Released: 31 October 2006 Label: Warner Sunset Records, Atlantic Records	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Les Misérables: Highlights from the Motion Picture Soundtrack	Released: 21 December 2012 Label: Republic Records	2 [90]	3 [91]	81 [92]	18 [93]	1 [94]	11 [95]	1 [96]	1 [97]	1 [98]	1 [99]	ARIA: Gold[100] RIAJ: Gold[101] RIAA: Gold[102] RMNZ: Gold[103]
Fly: Songs Inspired by the Film "Eddie the Eagle"	Released: 1 April 2016	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Released: 8 December 2017 Label: Atlantic Records Format: CD, Digital download	1 [104]	3 [105]	—	5 [106]	1 [107]	1 [108]	1 [109]	17 [110]	1 [111]	1 [112]	ARIA: Platinum[113] BPI: 8× Platinum[114] MC: Platinum[115] IFPI DEN: Platinum[116] RIAA: 2× Platinum[117] RIAJ: Gold[118] RMNZ: Platinum[119]

Charted and certified songs

List of songs, with selected chart positions, showing year released and album name

Title	Year	Peak chart positions						Certifications	Album
		AUS [120]	IRE [121]	FRA [122]	NZ [123]	UK [124]	US [125]
"The Greatest Show" (with Zac Efron, Zendaya, Keala Settle and The Greatest Showman Ensemble)	2017	42	34	110	—[a]	20	88	ARIA: Platinum[127] BPI: Platinum[128] RIAA: Platinum[129]	The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
"A Million Dreams" (with Michelle Williams and Ziv Zaifman)		—	45	199	—	22	—	BPI: Platinum[128] RIAA: Platinum[130] RMNZ: Platinum[131]
"A Million Dreams (Reprise)" (with Austyn Johnson and Cameron Seely)		—	—	—	—	—	—	BPI: Gold[128] RIAA: Gold[132] RMNZ: Gold[131]
"Come Alive" (with Zendaya, Keala Settle, Daniel Everidge and The Greatest Showman Ensemble)		—	70	—	—[b]	55	—[c]	BPI: Gold[128] RIAA: Gold[132]
"The Other Side" (with Zac Efron)		—	54	—	—	48	—	BPI: Platinum[128] RIAA: Gold[133] RMNZ: Platinum[131]
"From Now On" (with The Greatest Showman Ensemble)		—	65	—	—	71	—	BPI: Platinum[128] RIAA: Gold[134] RMNZ: Platinum[131]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

Video games

List of Hugh Jackman video game credits

Title	Year	Voice role	Notes	Ref.
X2: Wolverine's Revenge	2003	Logan / Wolverine	Likeness only; Logan / Wolverine voiced by Mark Hamill	[135]
Van Helsing	2004	Gabriel Van Helsing		[135]
X-Men: The Official Game	2006	Logan / Wolverine		[135]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	2009			[135]

See also

• Film portal

• List of awards and nominations received by Hugh Jackman

Notes

1. "The Greatest Show" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 3 on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart.^[126]
2. "Come Alive" did not enter the NZ Top 40 Singles Chart, but peaked at number 8 on the NZ Heatseeker Singles Chart.^[126]
3. "Come Alive" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at No. 21 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.