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JUDE LAW BIOGRAPHY |
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Born December 29, 1972, in Lewisham, London,
England, raised in South London by his parents, who were both
school teachers, Law joined the National Youth Music Theatre at
age 13, where he acted in such productions as Joseph and the
Technicolor Dreamcoat. He left school at age 16 after winning a
part as a teenage runaway on the British television soap opera
Families. Over the next several years, Law won parts on stage,
in a touring production of Pygmalion and The Fastest Clock in
the Universe in London (both 1992), and on TV in both Britain
and the U.S. In 1994, Law made his film debut, in the poorly
received British film Shopping; the film also featured Law’s
future wife, Sadie Frost, an actress best known for her
appearance in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). Law initially found
a greater measure of success on stage than on screen. He starred
in the London production of Les Parents Terribles in 1995, and
became the only member of the cast who was invited to reprise
his role in the hit Broadway version of the play, Indiscretions.
Law earned a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor for his
starring role—complete with a much-talked-about nude scene—opposite
Kathleen Turner, as a son involved in an incestuous relationship
with his mother.
In 1997, he had important supporting roles in three major
American films: in the futuristic thriller Gattaca, he played a
genetically-perfect man crippled in an accident; in both
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint
Eastwood, and Wilde, he played dangerously tempting objects of
homosexual desire. Though all three films did mediocre business,
Law received praise for his magnetic screen presence and,
inevitably, his sultry good looks. Several more disappointments
followed, including the little-seen I Love You, I Love You Not
(1997), co-starring Claire Danes, Music From Another Room
(1998), and The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998, released in the U.S.
in 2000). In 1999, Law’s production company, Natural Nylon—which
he co-founded with Frost and friends and fellow actors Jonny Lee
Miller, Ewan McGregor, and Sean Pertwee—released its first
feature, the unabashedly bizarre eXistenZ, co-starring Law and
Jennifer Jason Leigh. Later that year, Law won raves—and an
Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor—for his role
as Dickie Greenleaf, the carefree playboy at the center of a
chilling tale of murderous desire in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
In addition to his work in film, Law continued his work on stage,
appearing in the London production of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore in
1999. In 2001, he starred with Ed Harris and Joseph Fiennes in
Enemy at the Gates, a drama set during World War II. That summer,
Law played a mechanical love god named "Gigolo Joe" in Steven
Spielberg's long-awaited science fiction opus A.I.: Artificial
Intelligence, costarring Haley Joel Osment. Also starred in
science-fiction thriller The World of Tomorrow costarring
Gwyneth Paltrow. Law married Sadie Frost in 1997 and have four
children: a son Rafferty, a second son Finley (whom she has from
a previous marriage), a daughter Iris born in October 2000, and
a third son Rudy born in September 2002. The couple lives in
London. |
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