
VOX LUX
Two time Academy Award nominee and BAFTA winner JUDE LAW is
one of the most sought after talents in the
acting world, winning awards for both his screen and theatre work.
Jude is currently filming CAPTAIN MARVEL, in which he plays Dr Walter Lawson,
a.k.a. Mar-Vell. Also starring
Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Gemma Chan, and Ben Mendelsohn, the Marvel
superhero flick is directed by
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It will be released 8th March 2019. He's also filming
the spy thriller THE RHYTHM
SECTION alongside Blake Lively. Directed by Reed Morano and produced by Barbara
Broccoli and Michael G.
Wilson, the film is a contemporary adaptation of Mark Burnell's 'Stephanie
Patrick' novels. Shooting in various
locations, the story follows Lively's character who, after discovering that her
family's airplane crash wasn't an
accident, becomes an assassin to track down those responsible.
He will begin filming THE NEST later this year, alongside Carrie Coon. Sean
Durkin is set to direct and this
psychological thriller will follow an entrepreneur and his American family as
their lives begin to take a twisted
turn after morning into an English country manor.
Jude will next be seen in J.K. Rowling's FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF
GRINDELWALD, in which he takes
on the much-loved role of Albus Dumbledore, playing the professor in his younger
years. With returning cast
members Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterson, Alison Sudol, and Dan Fogle, and
David Yates at the helm as
director, the much-anticipated sequel is set to be released next year on 16th
November 2018.
Jude recently wrapped filming on Brady Corbet's musical drama VOX LUX, alongside
Stacy Martin, in New York
City.
Jude returned to the Barbican in April 2017 in a stage version of OBSESSION,
adapted from the 1943 film by
neo-realist director Luchino Visconti. As the lead role of 'Gino', Jude played a
charming wanderer who engages
in a passionate affair with a married woman, while plotting to murder her
husband. The adaptation was
directed by acclaimed Olivier Award-winning Dutch director Ivo Van Hove.
Premiering at The Venice Film Festival in 2016, Jude was seen in the HBO
miniseries THE YOUNG POPE, created
and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring alongside Diane Keaton. In the eight
part series, Jude played 'Pope
Pius XIII', the newly elected pope struggling with new responsibilities. The
show premiered on Sky Atlantic in
the UK. That year we also saw Jude in Guy Ritchie's KNIGHTS OF THE ROUNDTABLE:
KING ARTHUR, a film
adaptation of the classic Sir Lancelot story where he played 'Vortigern'.
Working with prolific director Michael Grandage for a second time, Jude was
seen in GENIUS alongside Colin
Firth, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney. The film chronicles Max Perkin's time as
the book editor of Scribner,
where he oversaw works by Law's character, the American novelist Thomas Wolfe.
Recent projects include Paul Feig's comedy SPY, with Melissa McCarthy, Rose
Byrne and Jason Statham. He
played the lead role in Kevin McDonald's submarine drama BLACK SEA and featured
in the award winning THE
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL directed by Wes Anderson. Prior to this, he played Karenin
in Joe Wright's ANNA
KARENINA and alongside Rooney Mara and Catherine Zeta-Jones and starred in
Steven Soderbergh's final and
highly acclaimed film SIDE EFFECTS.
For his early performance as Bosie in the film WILDE, opposite Stephen Fry
and Vanessa Redgrave, he won
the London Film Critics Circle Award and the Evening Standard Award. His
American film debut was in the
futuristic GATTACA opposite Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke.
It was Law's performance as the charming Dickie Greenleaf in the late Anthony
Minghella's THE TALENTED
MR RIPLEY that brought him to the attention of a worldwide audience and garnered
him his first Academy
Award and Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actor. He won a BAFTA
Award for the role. He
worked with Minghella in two further films: COLD MOUNTAIN for which he was again
nominated for Golden
Globe and Academy Awards, this time as Best Actor, and the small-scale and
intimate Breaking and Entering.
Other films include Sam Mendes' ROAD TO PERDITION, David Cronenberg's
Existenz, Clint Eastwood's
MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, Jean-Jacques Annaud's World War II epic
ENEMY AT THE
GATES, Mike Nichols' CLOSER, based on the original play by Patrick Marber,
opposite Julia Roberts, Clive Owen
and Natalie Portman. He starred in SKY CAPTAIN AND WORLD OF TOMORROW with Gwyneth
Paltrow, and
played ALFIE for director Charles Shyer. In addition, Law played supporting roles
as Errol Flynn in Martin
Scorsese's Oscar-nominated epic THE AVIATOR, and in I HEART HUCKABEES directed
by David O Russell. He
starred with Sean Penn in ALL THE KING'S MEN and with Cameron Diaz in THE
HOLIDAY. In 2007 he produced
and starred in SLEUTH with Michael Caine, directed by Kenneth Branagh and
scripted by Harold Pinter and in
2008 he starred with Norah Jones in Wong Kar Wei's first English language film,
MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS. Also
in 2008 he completed work on REPO MEN, a futuristic thriller in which he starred
with Forrest Whittaker for
director Miguel Sapochnik. He stepped into the late Heath Ledger's role in Terry
Gilliam's THE IMAGINARIUM
OF DR PARNASSUS, a role he shared with Johnny Depp and Colin Farrell.
Law played a telling cameo as a cross-dressing model in Sally Potter's film
RAGE which premiered at the Berlin
Film Festival in 2009 and had huge success as Dr Watson in Guy Ritchie's two
SHERLOCK HOLMES films starring
Robert Downey Jr as Sherlock Holmes. He will reprise his role for a third
instalment of the film series. He also
featured in Martin Scorsese's HUGO and in 2011 appeared in Steven Soderbergh's
CONTAGION, Fernando
Meireilles' 360 and voiced a role in the DreamWorks' animation GUARDIANS.
Law's theatre work has also been highly regarded, most recently in Michael
Grandage's HENRY V for which
Law received huge critical acclaim. In 1994 he created the role of Michael in
Jean Cocteau's play LES PARENTS
TERRIBLES for which he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award for Outstanding
Newcomer. The play
was renamed INDISCRETIONS when it moved to Broadway and where he received a Tony
nomination for
Outstanding Supporting Actor.
He has worked with director David Lan at London's Young Vic Theatre where he
starred in 'TIS PITY SHE'S A
WHORE and also starred in Christopher Marlowe's DR FAUSTUS in a highly acclaimed
performance. In 2005-
2006, Law was closely involved in the fund-raising efforts for the major
refurbishment of the Young Vic
Theatre. In 2009 he took on HAMLET for the Donmar Theatre's season in the West
End, directed by Michael
Grandage. The production, and his performance were critically acclaimed and the
play transferred to
Broadway in September 2009 where it broke box office records for a production of
Shakespeare. In February
2010 Law won the London Critics' Circle award for the Best Shakespearean
Performance and was nominated
for both an Olivier and a Tony Award as Best Actor. In 2011, Jude returned to
the stage at the Donmar Theatre
in Eugene O'Neill's ANNA CHRISTIE and received rave reviews.
In 2007 Law was awarded the prestigious French Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres medal and in the same year
won a Cesar Award for his contribution to cinema. In 2012 he received the
prestigious Variety Award at the
British Independent Film Awards. He is an Ambassador for the charity Peace One
Day.
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