Jude Law

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Career

1980s-1990s

In 1987 Law began acting with the National Youth Music Theater. the United Kingdom's leading organization for young people in the field of musical theatre. He played various roles in the Edinburgh Fringe awarded The Ragged Child, and one of his first major stage roles was as Foxtrot Darling in Philip Ridley's multi-award-winning The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les parents terribles directed by Sean Mathias. He was nominated for an Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer, and he received the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding Newcomer.

Following a title change to Indiscretions, the play was reworked and transferred to Broadway in 1995, where Law acted opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees and Cynthia Nixon. This role earned him a Tony Award nomination and the Theatre World Award. In 1989, Law got his first TV role in a movie based on the Beatrix Potter children's book, The Tailor of Gloucester. After minor roles in British television, including a two-year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families and the leading role in the BFI /Channel 4 short The Crane, Law had his breakthrough with the British crime drama Shopping, which also featured his future wife Sadie Frost.

He became more widely known with his performance in the biopic Wilde. Law won the "Most Promising Newcomer" award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards, for his role as Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde. In Andrew Niccol's science fiction film Gattaca, he played the role of a disabled former swimming star living in a eugenics-obsessed dystopia. In Clint Eastwood's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, he played the role of the ill-fated hustler murdered by an art dealer (played by Kevin Spacey). He also played a mob hit man in Sam Mendes's 1930s period drama Road to Perdition.

2000s

He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice; once as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1999, and then again as Best Actor in a Leading Role for Cold Mountain in 2003, both directed by Anthony Minghella. For the former film, he learned to play saxophone and earned a MTV Movie Award nomination together with Matt Damon and Fiorello for performing the song Tu Vuo' Fa L'Americano by Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno. He learned ballet dancing for the film Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).

He portrayed the title character in Alfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, playing the role originated by Sir Michael Caine. In 2004, Law was named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. He took on another of Caine's earlier roles in the 2007 film Sleuth adapted by Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, while Caine played the role originated by Sir Laurence Olivier. Law, an admirer of Olivier, used the famous actor's image in the 2004 film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Using computer graphics, footage of the young Olivier was merged into the film, playing Dr.Totenkopf, a mysterious scientific genius and supervillain.

Law is one of three actors taking the place of the actor Heath Ledger in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Along with Law, actors Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell will portray the "three separate dimensions in the film." He will appear opposite Forest Whitaker in the dark sci-fi comedy Repossession Mambo. In 2009, Law will return to the London stage to portray Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, under the direction of Kenneth Branagh, at the Donmar Warehouse.

Other Projects

Law is the face of the new male perfume of Dior. Since 2005, he has represented British-based men's luxury goods maker Dunhill as an "apparel ambassador" in Asia In 2008, he became the international face and appears in the worldwide spring/summer advertising campaign, apart from TV commercials in North America.

In 2002, he directed a Respect for Animals anti-fur cinema commercial. The commercial used music composed by Gary Kemp, and included appearances by pop singer Mel C, Helena Christensen, Sadie Frost, Supergrass's Danny Goffey, Chrissie Hynde, Rhys Ifans, Jude Law, Sir Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney, George Michael and Moby. In 2007, he encouraged the Friends of the Earth /The Big Ask campaign, asking British Government to take action against Climate change.

The World As A Stage

In spring 2007 he filmed a video at Borough Market, South London to support the Tate Modern's The World as a Stage exhibition. The first and only performance, by the Polish artist Pawel Althamer, held at Borough Market on November 30, 2007. "Pawel Althamer, the artist behind the project, is interested in the way real life and the fictional world of cinema intersect. In preparation for Jude's real life performance he commissioned a genuine film trailer that was shown in cinemas to advertise the event."

Charity Activities

In 2004, Law launched a campaign to raise £2.5 million towards the Young Vic Theatre's £12.5 million redevelopment project. He is currently Chair of the Young Vic committee and has said that he is proud to help make the Young Vic "a nurturing bed" for young directors. He is an enthusiastic football fan and a supporter of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. In 2006, he joined Robbie Williams in the "Soccer Aid" celebrity football match to benefit UNICEF.

Law also does charity work for organizations such as Make Poverty History, the Rhys Daniels Trust, and the WAVE Trauma Centre. He supports the charity Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Pride of Britain Awards. He is the chair of the Music For Tomorrow Foundation, to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

In 2006, he starred in an anthology of Samuel Beckett readings and performances directed by Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella. With the Beckett Gala Evening at the Reading Town Hall more than £22,000 was donated for the Macmillan Cancer Support. Also in 2006, Frost and Law directed a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He traveled to Durban, South Africa, with Frost and their children in order to help children who have lost their parents to AIDS. In July 2007, as patron of the charity, he helped kick off the month-long tour of the AIDS-themed musical Thula Sizwe, by The Young Zulu Warriors.

Jude Law is an ambassador of HRH The Prince of Wales' Children & the Arts Foundation.

Peace Activities

In July 2007, Law and Jeremy Gilley were in Afghanistan over a period of 10 days to document peace commitments and activities there for an upcoming film and for marking the UN International Day of Peace. Accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, they travelled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials. They also filmed at schools and visited various UNICEF-supported programmes inside and outside the capital. These efforts of Peace One Day are coordinated in celebration of the annual International Day of Peace, on September 21. The film named The Day After Peace premièred at the Cannes Film Festival. On September 21, 2008, the film will be shown at a Gala screening at the Royal Albert Hall. A New York POD event will be held at the Nokia Theatre on the 9th of September.

Personal Life

Law met actress Sadie Frost during the work on the film Shopping. They married on September 2, 1997. He is the father of four children: Finlay Munro (stepson of Law, born September 20, 1990), son Rafferty (born October 6, 1996), daughter Iris (born October 25, 2000) and son Rudy (born September 10, 2002). They divorced on October 29, 2003.

At Christmas 2004 he became engaged to Sienna Miller, his co-star in Alfie. On November 12, 2006 Law and Miller announced their breakup.

Sept 2009 Jude Law became a father of four. Model Samantha Burke, 24, who dated Law last year, gave birth to baby girl Nicole, People reports.

Tidbits

-During a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Jay Leno asked him where his name came from, and he replied that he was named after the Beatles song "Hey Jude."

-When joining the N.Y.M.T., Jude was placed in the wrong dormitory because they thought he was a girl because of his name. He never told anyone but was soon caught and moved.

-Jude used to be roommates with Ewan McGregor.

-Jude dropped out of school when he was 17 to star in the daytime soap ‘Families’.

-Jude has two tattoos. One is of a Rorschach butterfly that resembles his initials on his right arm. The other is on his inner left arm. It's a lyric from the Beatles song "Sexy Sadie": "You came along to turn on everyone, sexy Sadie."

-Jude was the host of "Saturday Night Live" the night of the infamous Ashlee Simpson incident.

-Kate Moss is the godmother of Jude's daughter Iris.

-Jude broke a rib after falling from a rowing boat during the filming of the murder scene in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ in 1999.

-Jude kept the shirts his characters in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Gattaca wore in the scenes when they were killed.

-Learned to play saxophone for his part in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’.

-Jude was on People magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list in 2000 and 2004.

-In 2002 Sadie Frost and Jude Law supported Respect for Animals with an anti-fur commercial directed by Law, with music specially composed by Gary Kemp.

In 2002, he directed a Respect for Animals anti-fur cinema commercial. The commercial used music composed by Gary Kemp, and included appearances by pop singer Mel C, Helena Christensen, Sadie Frost, Supergrass's Danny Goffey, Chrissie Hynde, Rhys Ifans, Jude Law, Sir Paul McCartney, Stella McCartney, George Michael and Moby. In 2007, he encouraged the Friends of the Earth /The Big Ask campaign, asking British Government to take action against Climate change.

-Law had pulled out of a film deal with high-profile couple David and Victoria Beckham after becoming concerned of the amount of press the move would bring him. (September 25, 2003)

-Band Brand New has a song named after him, titled 'Jude Law and a Semester Abroad', featured on their album Your Favorite Weapon.

-Jude had pulled out of British comic Ricky Gervais’ star-studded television comedy Extras due to work commitments. (March 29, 2005)

-Jude says he always loves a woman who can cook. (March 14, 2005)

-Jude is on the Top Ten List from the 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, following the criteria of James Ulmer in The Ulmer Scale.

-In 2006, Frost and Law dedicated their Christmas holidays to direct a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He traveled to Durban, South Africa, with Frost and their children in order to help children who have lost their parents to AIDS. In July 2007, as patron of the charity, he helped kick off the month-long tour of the AIDS-themed musical Thula Sizwe, by The Young Zulu Warriors.

-In 2009 Jude will be returning to the London stage to perform the role of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, under the direction of Kenneth Branagh, at the Donmar Warehouse.

-Jude Law is the apparel ambassador of Dunhill. He represented the company in Asia since 2005. In 2008 he is the international face and appears in the worldwide Spring/Summer advertising campaign, apart from commercials in North America.

-In July 2007, Jude Law traveled with Jeremy Gilley, the founder of Peace One Day, on a mission to document peace commitments and activities in Afghanistan for an upcoming film which will be released in May 2008 and for marking the UN International Day of Peace. Accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, they traveled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew from Peace One Day, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials.

Law is the face of the new male perfume of Dior. Since 2005, he has represented British-based men's luxury goods maker Dunhill as an "apparel ambassador" in Asia. In 2008, he became the international face and appears in the worldwide spring/summer advertising campaign, apart from TV commercials in North America.

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