2006

Hugh Jackman

October 20

A Prestigious Role

The Prestige reunites Jackman with Johansson. He plays an ambitious magician involved in a feud. The New York Times praises the film as "stuffed with hard-working actors, sleek effects and stagy period details… an intricate and elaborate machine designed for the simple purpose of diversion."

Hugh Jackman

November

For the Kids

Jackman lends his vocal talents to the animated features Happy Feet and Flushed Away. In Flushed Away, Jackman plays Roddy, a spoiled pet mouse who, by a strange twist of fate, winds up trying to survive in a London sewer. In Happy Feet, he voices the penguin Memphis – dad of protagonist penguin, Mumble – and warbles to his onscreen wife Norma Jean voiced by Nicole Kidman.

Hugh Jackman

November 22

The Art of Multitasking

Jackman stars in three roles opposite Rachel Weisz in Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain. In the film, which hurdles through space and time, all of Jackman's characters – he plays a medical researcher, a Spanish conquistador, and a 26th century space voyager – live during different points of history. Variety declares "charismatic Jackman (and his chiseled cheekbones) does his best to carry the film through its many lulls."

Photo Credits

BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Touchstone Pictures; DreamWorks/Everett; Warner Bros.

Edited by Mai Dinh, Janet Murphy