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Jude Law

Jude Law

Actor · b. 1972 · Lewisham, London, England, UK

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.8

    Captain Marvel

    2019 · 17K votes

  • Movie8.0

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    2014 · 16K votes

  • Movie6.6
  • Movie7.4

    Rise of the Guardians

    2012 · 7.3K votes

  • Movie5.4

    Peter Pan & Wendy

    2023 · 784 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Sherlock Holmes

    2009 · 15K votes

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    The Aviator

    2004 · 6K votes

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  • Movie7.1

    The Holiday

    2006 · 5.8K votes

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    Enemy at the Gates

    2001 · 4.2K votes

  • Movie7.6

    Gattaca

    1997 · 7.1K votes

  • Movie6.8

    Spy

    2015 · 6.5K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Contagion

    2011 · 6.7K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Talented Mr. Ripley

    1999 · 4.3K votes

  • Movie6.7

    Eden

    2025 · 749 votes

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  • Movie7.2

    Hugo

    2011 · 7.8K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Road to Perdition

    2002 · 4.1K votes

  • Movie6.6

    The Order

    2024 · 959 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Le Mage du Kremlin

    The Wizard of the Kremlin

    2026 · 249 votes

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  • TV6.1
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  • TV6.4

    The Daily Show

    1996 · 660 votes

  • TV4.3

    The View

    1997 · 113 votes

  • TV6.9

    Saturday Night Live

    1975 · 527 votes

  • TV5.3

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    2003 · 217 votes

  • TV7.2

    The Graham Norton Show

    2007 · 290 votes

  • TV5.6

    LIVE with Kelly and Mark

    1988 · 51 votes

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  • TV5.6

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    2003 · 179 votes

  • TV8.0

    What If...?

    2021 · 4.7K votes

  • TV8.2

    Sherlock Holmes

    1984 · 270 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

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  • TV6.8

    Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

    2024 · 486 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Early Show

    1999 · 10 votes

  • TV7.0

    Black Rabbit

    2025 · 220 votes

  • TV7.7

    The Young Pope

    2016 · 678 votes

  • TV7.5

    Toast of London

    2013 · 109 votes

  • TV7.6

    The New Pope

    2020 · 323 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Third Day

    2020 · 236 votes

  • TV7.9

    The Emmy Awards

    1949 · 9 votes