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Hugh Jackman's best movie roles

By Seija Rankin October 12, 2018 at 10:00 AM EDT
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The Front Runner (2018)

The Front Runner
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Jackman plays Senator Gary Hart in the real-life story of a politician who was expected to win the 1988 presidential election yet was forced to drop out of the race after an infidelity scandal broke. The drama hits theaters in November 2018 (yes, just in time for the elections).

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The Greatest Showman (2017)

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Don't you wanna get away to a whole new part you're gonna play? Hugh's got what you need, so come with him and take the ride.

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X-Men (2000)

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Back in the year 2000, this was the movie that started it all for Jackman and his iconic beard-fang combo.

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Logan (2017)

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Quite possibly the best superhero movie to date (it was even nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar), Jackman's probable X-Men swan song was a powerful ode to the role he played for almost two decades.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

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The 2015 indie dramedy-slash-coming-of-age film featured a surprise cameo from Jackman himself — as a Wolverine poster come alive. It sounds bizarre, but trust that it fit in with the rest of the movie's vibe.

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Prisoners (2013)

Prisoners — the story of a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal) searching for two missing young girls and the desperate, anguished father (Hugh Jackman) who decides toÂ…
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Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal team up to seek revenge on the boy they believe kidnapped two girls and subsequently haunted all of our nightmares.

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Happy Feet

Mumble (Elijah Wood), the tap-dancing penguin, now has a son named Erik (Elizabeth Daily), but the little puffball doesn't share his father's love of hoofing.Â…

Jackman voiced Memphis, the penguin who had a total 'tude towards dancing, in what is the foremost penguin cartoon of our time.

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Someone Like You (2001)

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Jackman starred alongside Ashley Judd and Greg Kinnear in this classic rom-com about a woman who writes a column about all the bad relationship habits she's noticed in men, but the real fun fact is that he was directed by none other than Scandal's Tony Goldwyn.

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Les Misérables (2012)

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In the timeless musical, Jackman demonstrates how to perfect the art of layering — and other stuff, too.

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Kate & Leopold (2001)

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You heard it here first: Hugh Jackman was the early-2000s rom-com king you totally forgot about. In this flick, he plays a duke from the 1800s who unexpectedly finds himself in modern-day New York — and falls in love, of course.

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    1 of 10 The Front Runner (2018)
    2 of 10 The Greatest Showman (2017)
    3 of 10 X-Men (2000)
    4 of 10 Logan (2017)
    5 of 10 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
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    8 of 10 Someone Like You (2001)
    9 of 10 Les Misérables (2012)
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