JUDE LAW
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Filmography
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He was named after the Beatles song "Hey Jude."
He co-founded an independent production company, Natural Nylon, with friends Sean Pertwee, Sadie Frost, Ewan McGregor, and Jonny Lee Miller. The group formed this company so that they could move on in their careers on their own terms (Jude and Sadie were saying that they always got type-cast).
"The reality is who you are in the morning. You can’t wake up knowing you’ve broken someone’s heart, or had yours broken. Fame is not the secret to happiness. Half the actors and actresses walking up the red carpet on Oscar night think they have arrived, and you never hear of them again." --Jude (from Harper's July 1999 issue)
Some critics call Jude the modern-day Cary Grant or Gregory Peck.
Sadie saw Jude in "Les Parents Terribles" and turned down every other role offered for a part in "Shopping"--that was the movie they first met in.
"Lots of people have affairs, but I knew immediately that Jude was The One." --Sadie, referring to her admiration of Jude from afar... during her first marriage (from Harper's July 1999 issue)
Jude dropped out of school at 17, to pursue his acting career.
He and Ewan McGregor used to be roommates!
In Enemy at the Gates, Jude co-stars with Shakespeare in Love's Joseph Fiennes. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud remarked, "It's interesting to film a movie with such exquisitely polite and good-looking men. I got the feeling that women were falling for these guys wherever we went." --from EW's August 18/25, 2000 issue
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Birthday: December 29, 1972
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Significant Other: Sadie Frost
Children: Rafferty (born 1996 or 1997), Finley (stepson)
1990 "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes" (tv) as Joe Barnes
1990 "Families" (tv) as Nathan Thompson
19?? Jean Cocteau's Les Parents Terribles (play)
19?? Euripedes (RSC)
1993 "The Marshall" (tv) as Bruno
1994 Shopping as Billy
1996 I Love You, I Love You Not as Ethan Wells
1997 Wilde as Lord Alfred [Bosie] Douglas
1997 Gattaca as Jerome
1997 Bent as Stormtrooper
1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Billy Carl Hanson
1998 Music From Another Room as Danny
1998 Final Cut as Jude
1998 The Wisdom of Crocodiles as Steven Grlscz
1999 Love, Honour, and Obey as Jude
1999 eXistenZ as Ted Pikul
1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf
2000 Enemy at the Gates as Vasily Zaitsev
2001 A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) as Gigolo Joe
2002 The Road to Perdition as Maguire/"The Reporter"
2002 Marlowe as William Shakespeare
19?? Olivier Award nomination for Outstanding Newcomer (Indiscretions)
19?? Tony nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor (Indiscretions)
19?? Theatre World Award (Indiscretions)
19?? Ian Charleston Award nomination for Best Young Classical Actor (Indiscretions and Euripedes (RSC))
1999 Academy Award nomination for Actor in a Supporting Role(The Talented Mr. Ripley)
GREAT photo from a magazine; Jude looking to the side
Black-and-white; on a couch
Great pic; laying back on another couch
Looking a bit out-of-it
Jude and some of his wife
Typical Jude; looking down carelessly
Interesting Facts/Quotes
Jude has two tattoos: one of a Rorschach Butterfly, another of lyrics from the Beatles' "Sexy Sadie" (on behalf of his wife).
