Jude Law

Jude Law was born on December 29th, 1972 in London, England. He was a member of the National Youth Music Theatre when he was a child and had the lead in their production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

His first TV gig came about with 1989’s The Tailor of Gloucester. The next year, he was cast as a runaway in the British soap opera Families. After leaving the show, Law went on to tour Italy with Pygmalian and then back to the London stage for The Fastest Clock in the Universe. A production of Les Parents Terrible/Indiscretions in London was then remounted in New York. Law was the only actor from the British production asked to reprise his role and that won him his first Tony nomination.

Jude’s feature film debut was in 1994’s Shopping, which co-starred his future wife Sadie Frost. His next film was I Love You, I Love You Not which starred James Van Der Beek and Claire Danes. 1997 was a busy year with a variety of roles in films Bent with Ian McKellan and Mick Jagger, Wilde starring Stephen Fry and Vanessa Redgrave, Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which starred Kevin Spacey and John Cusack.

Lead roles followed in 1998 with Music From Another Room which also featured Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly, and Martha Plimpton, Final Cut which reteamed him with Sadie Frost and The Wisdom of Crocodiles. The next year, he made eXistenZ with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Willem Dafoe. That same year saw Jude’s breakout role as Dickie Greenleaf in The Talented Mr. Ripley which starred Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett. That role earned him his first Oscar nomination.

He followed that success with 2000’s Love, Honour and Obey again with Frost. In 2001, Law made Enemy at the Gates with Ed Harris and Rachel Weisz and Artificial Intelligence: AI with Haley Joel Osment and Frances O’Connor. The next year, he appeared in a strong supporting role opposite Tom Hanks in Road to Perdition. The second of his Oscar® nominations was to follow in 2003’s Cold Mountain which also starred Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger.

2004 was an exceedingly busy year for Jude on screen. Though he had made the films over a two year period, they all ended up being released within six months of each other. He joined an ensemble that featured Jason Schwartzman, Dustin Hoffman, Mark Wahlberg and Naomi Watts for I Heart Huckabees. He worked opposite green screens, Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. He remade Michael Caine’s role in Alfie. He voiced Lemony Snicket in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. He worked with Clive Owen, Julia Roberts and Natalie Portman in Closer and played Errol Flynn to Leonardo DiCaprio’s Howard Hughes in The Aviator.

Law had another busy year in 2006. After sitting on the shelf for a little bit, All the King’s Men was released. The film had an all-star cast that included Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet and James Gandolfini. Law also appeared in Breaking and Entering with Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn and The Holiday with Jack Black, Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet.

In 2007, Jude played Michael Caine’s original role in Sleuth, while Caine took on the role originated by Laurence Olivier. He also appeared in My Blueberry Nights with Rachel Weisz and singer Norah Jones.

On the personal side, Jude divorced Sadie Frost in 2003. They had three children. He later made headlines in 2005 when then girlfriend Sienna Miller, who appeared with Law in Alfie discovered he had slept with his children’s nanny. They tried to reconcile but split for good later that year.

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