Hugh Jackman
Hugh Jackman is the Australian actor and singer, 57, who hosts the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on September 26, 2026, and who played Mike Sardina opposite Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue. He was Wolverine across nine X-Men films and won a Tony for The Boy from Oz. His divorce from Deborra-Lee Furness was finalised in June 2025 and he has been with Sutton Foster since.
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Where does Hugh Jackman live?
In New York City, where he has been based for years and where he keeps a long-standing home in the West Village. He is Australian and returns to Sydney regularly, but his working life since the mid-2010s has been organised around New York, which is also where his Broadway work and this month's Central Park festival sit. Sources: Wikipedia, People.
What is Hugh Jackman's nationality?
Australian. He was born in Sydney to English parents who had emigrated to Australia, trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and holds Australian citizenship. He has lived and worked in the United States for two decades without that changing. Source: Wikipedia.
How old is Hugh Jackman?
He was born on 12 October 1968, which makes him 57 years old in September 2026. He turns 58 in October. Source: Wikipedia.
How tall is Hugh Jackman?
Around 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in), the figure carried by most film references. It is a widely reported number rather than an officially published one, and it made him a foot taller than the comic-book Wolverine he played for twenty-four years. Source: CelebHeights.
Is Hugh Jackman hosting the Global Citizen Festival 2026?
Yes. He hosts the 2026 Global Citizen Festival on the Great Lawn in Central Park on Saturday, September 26. The line-up announced for the show includes Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and Tomorrow X Together, with appearances from Bill Nye, Katie Couric and others. Sources: Deadline, Global Citizen.
What is Hugh Jackman's new movie?
His most recent major release is Song Sung Blue, in which he plays Mike Sardina, half of the Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder, opposite Kate Hudson as his wife Claire. He also features in the animated comedy Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story, released on 20 February 2026, and in The Death of Robin Hood. Sources: Wikipedia, Variety.
Are Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness divorced?
Yes. They married in 1996, announced their separation in September 2023 and finalised the divorce in June 2025, ending a 27-year marriage. Furness has spoken publicly about the end of the relationship. They have two adopted children, Oscar and Ava. Sources: Wikipedia, Fox News.
Who is Hugh Jackman dating?
The Broadway actress Sutton Foster, a two-time Tony winner who starred opposite him in The Music Man in 2022. Their relationship became public in 2025, after his divorce was finalised. Sources: Wikipedia, People.
Is Hugh Jackman still playing Wolverine?
Nothing is confirmed. He returned to the role in Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024 after saying he was done with it in Logan, and he has been deliberately non-committal about further Marvel appearances since. Reports linking him to future projects are speculation until Marvel says otherwise. Sources: Wikipedia, Yahoo Entertainment.
Has Hugh Jackman won a Tony Award?
Yes, one, Best Actor in a Musical for playing Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz in 2004. He also won a special Tony in 2012 for his contribution to Broadway, and was nominated again in 2022 for The Music Man. He has never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Les Misérables in 2013. Source: Wikipedia.
What is Hugh Jackman best known for?
For Wolverine, whom he played across nine X-Men films from 2000 to 2024, the longest run of any actor as a single superhero. Outside Marvel he is best known for The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables, The Prestige and his stage work, and for hosting the Oscars in 2009. Source: Wikipedia.
How many children does Hugh Jackman have?
Two, both adopted with Deborra-Lee Furness: Oscar, born in 2000, and Ava, born in 2005. Jackman has spoken about the couple's decision to adopt after fertility difficulties. Source: Wikipedia.
Does Hugh Jackman sing?
Yes, properly. He trained in musical theatre, won his Tony for a singing role, carried Jean Valjean in the film of Les Misérables, and sang his own vocals in The Greatest Showman and Song Sung Blue. He also toured an arena show, The Man. The Music. The Show., and played a twelve-concert residency at Radio City Music Hall in 2025. Sources: Wikipedia, AOL.
Hugh Jackman spends the last Saturday of September 2026 on the Great Lawn in Central Park, hosting the Global Citizen Festival for a bill that runs from Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean to Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey and Tomorrow X Together. It is the kind of job he has quietly made his own: a live room, no character to hide behind, and a script that mostly consists of keeping 60,000 people moving between causes and choruses.
He is 57, born in Sydney on 12 October 1968 to English parents who had emigrated, and trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts before a soap and a Royal National Theatre Oklahoma! made him unignorable. Then came Wolverine, a role he took in 2000 as a late replacement and played across nine films until Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024, the longest single-superhero run any actor has managed. Whether he does it again is genuinely open; he has spent two years declining to answer the question.
The other career is the stage one, and it is the one with the trophies. He won a Tony in 2004 for playing Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz, took a special Tony in 2012, and returned to Broadway in 2022 in The Music Man opposite Sutton Foster. He was Oscar-nominated for Les Misérables and sang his own vocals in The Greatest Showman, which turned into one of the decade’s more durable soundtracks. In 2025 he played twelve nights at Radio City Music Hall.
His most recent film is Song Sung Blue, Craig Brewer’s adaptation of the story of Mike and Claire Sardina, a Milwaukee couple who built a life out of a Neil Diamond tribute act called Lightning & Thunder. Jackman plays Mike opposite Kate Hudson, whose performance as Claire earned her a second Oscar nomination twenty-five years after Almost Famous. Ahead of it, in February 2026, came Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story, and The Death of Robin Hood is also on the 2026 slate.
The personal chapter has been public and not entirely comfortable. His marriage to Deborra-Lee Furness, which began in 1996 and produced two adopted children, Oscar and Ava, ended with a separation announced in September 2023 and a divorce finalised in June 2025. Furness has spoken about it in her own words. Jackman has been with Sutton Foster since, and has kept his commentary to a minimum, which on the evidence of the last three years looks like a deliberate policy.
