The Jude Law Handbook - Everything you need to know about Jude Law

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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor, film producer and director.

He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley. In 2000 he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for his work in the film. In 2003, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film, Cold Mountain.

This book is your ultimate resource for Jude Law. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Jude Law, Families (TV series), The Crane, Shopping (film), Wilde (film), Gattaca, Final Cut (1998 film), The Wisdom of Crocodiles, Existenz, Presence of Mind, The Talented Mr. Ripley (film), Tube Tales, Love, Honour and Obey, Enemy at the Gates, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Road to Perdition, Cold Mountain (film), I Heart Huckabees, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alfie (2004 film), Closer (film), The Aviator (2004 film), Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, All the King's Men (2006 film), Breaking and Entering (film), The Holiday, My Blueberry Nights, Sleuth (2007 film), Rage (2009 film), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Sherlock Holmes (2009 film), Repo Men, Contagion (film), Hugo (film), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Rise of the Guardians.

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• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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Contents

Articles Jude Law Families (TV series) The Crane Shopping (film) Wilde (film) Gattaca Final Cut(1998 film) The Wisdom of Crocodiles eXistenZ Presence of Mind The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) Tube Tales Love, Honour and Obey Enemy at the Gates A.I. Artificial Intelligence Road to Perdition Cold Mountain (film) I Heart Huckabees Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Alfie (2004 film) Closer (film) The Aviator (2004 film) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events All the King's Men (2006 film) Breaking and Entering (film) The Holiday

My Blueberry Nights Sleuth (2007 film) Rage (2009 film) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) Repo Men Contagion (film) Hugo (film)

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Rise of the Guardians

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Jude Law

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Early life Law was born in Lewisham, South London, the second child of comprehensive school teachers Margaret Anne (n e Heyworth) and Peter Robert Law; his father later became, according to Law, "the youngest headmaster in [1] [7] [7] London". He has a sister, Natasha. Law was named after a "bit of both" the bookJude the Obscureand the [7] [8] songHey Judegrew up in Blackheath, an area in the Borough of Lewisham, and was educated at John Ball. He [7] Primary School in Blackheath and Kidbrooke School, before attending the Alleyn's School.

at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

Jude Law

Sadie Frost (1997–2003; 3 children)

1987–present

Actor, producer, director

Years active

Occupation

Spouse

Born

David Jude Heyworth Law 29 December 1972 Lewisham, London, UK

Jude Law

He began acting with the National Youth Music Theatre in 1987, and had his first television role in 1989. After starring in films directed by Andrew Niccol, Clint Eastwood and David Cronenberg, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1999 for his performance in Anthony Minghella'sThe Talented Mr. RipleyIn 2000 he won a Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for his work in the film. In 2003, he was nominated. for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in another Minghella film,Cold Mountain. [3] In 2006, he was one of the top ten most bankable movie stars in Hollywood. In 2007, he received an Honorary [4] [5] C sar and he was named a Chevalier of theOrdre des Arts et des Lettresby the French government. In April [6] 2011, it was announced that he would be a member of the main competition jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

David Jude Heyworth Law(born 29 December 1972), known professionally asJude Law, is an English actor, film [1] [2] producer and director.

Jude Law

Career

1980s–1990s [9] In 1987, Law began acting with National Youth Music Theatre. He played various roles in the Edinburgh Fringe-awarded playThe Ragged Child. One of his first major stage roles was Foxtrot Darling in Philip Ridley'sThe Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Jean Cocteau's [7] tragicomedyLes Parents terribles, directed by Sean Mathias. For this play, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Newcomer, and he received the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding Newcomer. Following a title change toIndiscretions, the play was reworked and transferred to Broadway in 1995, where Law [10] [11] acted opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees, and Cynthia Nixon. This role earned him a Tony Award [12] [13] nomination and the Theatre World Award. In 1989, Law got his first television 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 operaFamiliesand the leading role in the BFI /Channel 4 shortThe Crane, Law had his breakthrough with the British crime dramaShopping, which also featured his future wife, Sadie Frost. [7] In 1997, he became more widely known with his role in the Oscar Wilde bio-picWilde. Law won the "Most Promising Newcomer" award from the Evening Standard British Film Awards for his role as Lord Alfred "Bosie" [14] Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde. In Andrew Niccol's science fiction filmGattaca, [7] Law played the role of a disabled former swimming star living in a eugenics-obsessed dystopia. In Clint Eastwood'sMidnight 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. ForThe Talented Mr. Ripleyin 1999, he learned to play saxophone and earned a MTV Movie Award nomination with Matt Damon and Fiorello for performing the song "ricanovfuàòl'aTmue" by Renato Carosone and Nicola Salerno.

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2000s

In 2001, Law starred as Russian sniper Vasily Zaytsev in the filmEnemy At The Gates, and learned ballet dancing for the filmA.I. Artificial Intelligence [15] (2001). In 2002, he played a mob hitman in Sam Mendes's 1930s period dramaRoad to Perdition. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance inThe Talented Mr. Ripleyin 1999, and then again for the Academy Award for Best Actor forCold Mountainin 2003. [7] Both films were directed by Anthony Minghella.

Law, an admirer of Laurence Olivier, used the 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 [16] [17] mysterious scientific genius and supervillain. Also in 2004, he portrayed the title character inAlfie, the remake of Bill Naughton's 1966 film, playing the [7] role originated by Michael Caine. Law was one of the Top Ten 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, following the criteria of James [3] Ulmer in the Ulmer Scale. On 1 March 2007, he was honoured with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres conferred by the French government, in recognition of his contribution to World Cinema Arts. He was named a [4] Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.

He took on another of Caine's earlier roles in the 2007 filmSleuth, adapted by Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter, while Caine played the role [18] originated by Sir Laurence Olivier.

Law is one of three actors who took over the role of actor Heath Ledger in Law at the 2006 Toronto International Terry Gilliam's filmThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Along with Law, Film Festival actors Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell portray "three separate dimensions in the [19] [20] film." He appeared opposite Forest Whitaker in the dark science fiction comedyRepo Menand as Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie's adaption ofSherlock Holmes, alongside Robert Downey, Jr. and Rachel McAdams, as well as the [21] 2011 sequel,Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Law stars as a celebrity supermodel in the filmRage, and blogger and "prophet" Alan Krumwiede in the 2011 medical thrillerContagion.

Hamlet In May 2009, Law returned to the London stage to portray the title role in Shakespeare'sHamletat the Donmar Warehouse West End season at Wyndham's Theatre. The BBC reported "a fine and solid performance" but included [22] other reviews of Law's interpretation that were mixed. There was a further run of the production at Elsinore [23] Castle in Denmark from 25–In September 2009 the production transferred to the Broadhurst30 August 2009. Theatre in New York. Again, the critics failed to agree on the merit of Law's interpretation: London'sDaily Mail [24] found only positive reviews, butThe Washington Postfelt that the much-anticipated performance was "highly [25] disappointing". Nonetheless, he was nominated for the 2010 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading [26] Actor in a Play. In January 2010 at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards ceremony he was presented with the John [27] and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his 2009 Hamlet.

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Jude Law

Other projects

Advertising [28] [29] [30] Law is the face of the male perfume of Dior,Dior Homme Sport2005, he has represented Dunhill. Since [31] as an "apparel ambassador" in Asia. In 2008, he became the international face of Dunhill and appears in the [32] worldwide advertising campaigns. In 2002, he directed a Respect for Animals anti-fur cinema commercial. The commercial, titled "Fur and Against", used music composed by Gary Kemp, and included appearances by Law, Chrissie Hynde, Moby, George Michael, [33] Danny Goffey, Rhys Ifans, Sadie Frost, Helena Christensen, Sir Paul McCartney, Mel C, and Stella McCartney.

Realtime Movie In early 2007 Law shot the Jason Martin-directed short film "Realtime Movie Trailer" at Borough Market, South London. Instead of promoting a film, this "trailer", which appeared among regular trailers in selected cinemas across London starting 19 November 2007, advertised a live event, Realtime Movie, by Polish artist Pawea Althamer. Hundreds turned up for this–unfilmed–re-enactment in real time of the sequence of events shown in "Realtime Movie Trailer" by the same actors, including Althamer as a Polish laborer, held at Borough Market on 30 November 2007. The performance was commissioned by Tate Modern as part of its "The World as a Stage" exhibition which [34] [35] [36] [37] explored the boundaries between arts and reality.

Charity activities In 2004, Law launched a campaign to raise b2.5 million towards the Young Vic Theatre's b12.5 million [38] [39] redevelopment project. He is currently Chair of the Young Vic committee and has said that he is proud to help [40] make the Young Vic "a nurturing bed" for young directors. In 2006, he joined Robbie Williams in the "Soccer [41] Aid" celebrity football match to benefit UNICEF. In 2006, he starred in an anthology of Samuel Beckett readings and performances directed by director Anthony Minghella. With the Beckett Gala Evening at the Reading Town Hall, more than b22,000 was donated for the [42] Macmillan Cancer Support. Also in 2006, Frost and Law directed a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He travelled to Durban 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 [43] Thula SizweAlso in 2007, he encouraged the Friends of the Earth/The Big Askby The Young Zulu Warriors. [44] [45] [46] campaign, asking British Government to take action against climate change. Law does charity work for organizations such as Make Poverty History, the Rhys Daniels Trust, and the WAVE [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] Trauma Centre. He supports the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Pride of Britain Awards. [52] [53] He is the chair of the Music For Tomorrow Foundation to help rebuild Katrina-devastated New Orleans. [54] Jude Law is an ambassador of HRH The Prince of Wales' Children and the Arts Foundation. He supports Breast [55] Cancer Care, and in December 2008 he supported the Willow Foundation with a small canvas for their campaign [56] Stars on Canvas. In April 2009 he supported the charity Education Africa with the gift of a mask he had painted [57] and signed himself. The campaign was launched on eBay by Education Africa. Stars including Dame Judi Dench and Jude Law have helped save St Stephen's Church in Hampstead. The celebrities supported the campaign, which raised b4.5 million to refurbish the Victorian church in north London. The building [58] [59] reopened in March 2009 as an arts and community centre.

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Jude Law

Peace activities In July 2007, Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley were in Afghanistan over a period of 10 days to document peace [60] [61] 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 dangerous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN [62] [63] officials. They also filmed at schools and visited various UNICEF-supported programmes inside and outside [64] [65] the capital Kabul. The efforts of Peace One Day are coordinated in celebration of the annual International Day [66] [67] [68] of Peace, on 21 September. The film, namedThe Day After Peace, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. [69] [70] [71]  On 21 September 2008, the film was shown at a gala screening at the Royal Albert Hall. On 30 August 2008, Law and Gilley returned to Afghanistan to help keep a momentum around Peace Day. They met President Hamid Karzai, top NATO and UN officials, and members of the aid community. They also screened the new documentary about the efforts in support of peace. The documentary features activities that took place throughout Afghanistan in 2007. It also highlights support from UNICEF and the WHO for the peaceful [72] [73] [74] [75] immunization of 1.4 million children against polio in insecure areas.

Belarus In 2011 Law joined street protests against Alexander Lukashenko and Lukashenko's brutal crackdown on the [76] Belarusian democracy movement.

Personal life [77] Law's parents live in Vaudelnay, France, where they run their own drama school and theatre. His sister Natasha is [78] [79] an illustrator and artist, living in London. Law met actress Sadie Frost while working on the filmShopping. They married on 2 September 1997 and divorced on 29 October 2003. He has a stepson, Finlay Munro (born 20 September 1990), and three biological children with Frost: son Rafferty (born 6 October 1996), daughter Iris (born 25 October 2000), and son Rudy (born 10 September [80] [81] 2002). While making the filmAlfiein late 2003, Law and co-star Sienna Miller began a relationship, becoming engaged on [82] [83] Christmas Day 2004. Miller and Law separated in November 2006. On 29 July 2009, it was announced that Law would become a father for the fourth time following a brief relationship [84] [85] with American model Samantha Burke in 2008. Burke gave birth to a daughter, Sophia, on 22 September [86] [87] 2009 in New York. In December 2009, it was reported that Law and Miller had rekindled their relationship after starring in separate [88] [89] shows on Broadway in late 2009. They spent Christmas 2009 in Barbados, along with three of Law's children. [90] They announced they had split again in February 2011.

Filmography

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1999

1998

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Gattaca

1997

Shopping

1993

The Wisdom of Crocodiles

Joe Barnes

Bruno

1999

Tube Tales

The Marshal

1989

The Tailor of Gloucester

6

Ted Pikul

Secretary

Love, Honour and Obey

2000

Happy M'Gee

2000

Enemy at the Gates

2001

(director)

akaImmortality

"A Bird in the Hand"

Film and television

Dickie Greenleaf

Steven Grlscz

Presence of Mind

Jude

Ethan

Billy Carl Hanson

Stormtrooper

Evening Standard British Film Awardc—Most Promising Newcomer

Jerome Eugene Morrow

Lord Alfred Douglas

Billy

Danny

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001

Young Man

Short film

Sam, Mayor's Stableboy

Role

TV series; episode "Shoscombe Old Place"

Nathan Thompson

TV movie

TV series

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

1997

1998

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

Wilde

1997

1997

Bent

Final Cut

1998

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actorc–Suspense Santa Fe Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Empire Awardc—Best British Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actorc–Motion Picture Nominated—London Critics Circle Film Awardc—British Supporting Actor of the Year Nominated—MTV Movie Awardc—Best Musical Performance Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Teen Choice Awardc—Film Choice Breakout Performance Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actorc–Motion Picture

Title

TV series

Notes

Jude

Tony M'Gee

Gigolo Joe

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Year

Music From Another Room

Vasily Zaytsev

1991

Families

1992

1990

The Crane

Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actorc–Motion Picture Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

1999

1999

eXistenZ

1996

1994

I Love You, I Love You Not

Nominated—European Film Award Audience Award for Best Actor

2009

Rage

2009

2009

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

2012

2011

Contagion

Also producer Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Gwyneth Paltrow Nominated—Visual Effects Society Awards 2004c–Outstanding Performance by an Actor or Actress in a Visual Effects Film

Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor

W. P. Inman

Will Francis

Graham

Sleuth

2007

2004

2010

2006

All the King's Men

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Jack Burden

I Huckabees

2003

Repo Men

Cold Mountain

Milo Tindle

Nominated—Empire Award for Best British Actor Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Awards for Best British Supporting Actor Nominated—Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actor

7

Minx

Filming

Remy

Tony (2nd transformation)

Dr. John Watson

Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Errol Flynn

Voice

Jeremy

Lemony Snicket

Pitch (Boogeyman)

Dr. John Watson

Hugo's Father

Alan Krumwiede

National Board of Review Award for Best Cast Nominated—Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast

Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated—Empire Award for Best British Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actorc–Motion Picture Drama Nominated—IFTA Awardc–People's Choice Award for Best International Actor Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Awards for Best British Actor Nominated—MTV Movie Awardc—Best Trans-Atlantic Breakthrough Performer Nominated—Golden Satellite Awardc–Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss shared with Cameron Diaz Nominated—NRJ Cin Award for Best Kiss shared with Cameron Diaz

Jude Law

Road to Perdition

2002

Sky Captain / Joseph Sullivan

Dan

Alfie

Brad Stand

Harlen Maguire

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

2004

2004

Closer

Breaking & Entering

2006

2004

Alfie

2006

Rise of the Guardians

Sherlock Holmes

Also producer

The Aviator

2011

Hugo

2011

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

2004

My Blueberry Nights

The Holiday

2007

2004