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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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). 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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. 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). 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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Emmy Awards
What If...?
The Early Show
The Daily Show
Sherlock Holmes
Marvel Studios Legends
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Toast of London
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Marvels
Loving Highsmith
The Oscars
Hugo
The Aviator
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
I ♥ Huckabees
A Rainy Day in New York
Contagion
Spy
Captain Marvel
The Third Day
The Holiday
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Gattaca
Vox Lux
Road to Perdition
Rise of the Guardians
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Peter Pan & Wendy
Black Rabbit
Sherlock Holmes
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Rhythm Section
Eden
Neo Yokio
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
360
Genius
Wilde
Anna Karenina
Side Effects
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Black Sea
Alfie
Closer
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Cold Mountain
Dom Hemingway
Repo Men
The Young Pope
The Nest
Enemy at the Gates
Wild Things
The New Pope
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
The Order
Production Credits
The Young Pope
The Order
The Nest
Vox Lux
Black Rabbit
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The New Pope
Wild Things
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