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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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). 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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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). 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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Emmy Awards
What If...?
The Early Show
The Daily Show
Sherlock Holmes
Marvel Studios Legends
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Toast of London
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Marvels
Loving Highsmith
The Oscars
Hugo
The Aviator
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
I ♥ Huckabees
A Rainy Day in New York
Captain Marvel
Spy
Contagion
Road to Perdition
Peter Pan & Wendy
Gattaca
The Third Day
Rise of the Guardians
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Holiday
Vox Lux
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Wilde
Eden
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Side Effects
Sherlock Holmes
Genius
The Rhythm Section
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Anna Karenina
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Black Rabbit
360
Neo Yokio
Closer
Enemy at the Gates
The Order
Dom Hemingway
The New Pope
Repo Men
Alfie
Wild Things
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
The Nest
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Young Pope
Cold Mountain
Black Sea
Production Credits
Black Rabbit
The New Pope
The Nest
The Young Pope
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Vox Lux
Wild Things
The Order
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