Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various 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 the Academy Award in the same category. 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), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter. 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. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (46)
Eden
The Order
Firebrand
Peter Pan & Wendy
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
The Nest
The Rhythm Section
Captain Marvel
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Genius
Spy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Black Sea
Side Effects
Dom Hemingway
Rise of the Guardians
Anna Karenina
360
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Hugo
Contagion
Repo Men
Sherlock Holmes
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sleuth
My Blueberry Nights
All the King's Men
Breaking and Entering
The Holiday
Closer
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Aviator
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Alfie
I ♥ Huckabees
Cold Mountain
Road to Perdition
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Enemy at the Gates
The Talented Mr. Ripley
eXistenZ
Immortality
Gattaca
Wilde
