Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972) is an English actor. He has received multiple awards including a BAFTA Film Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government.
Born and raised in London, Law started acting in theatre. After finding small roles in feature films, Law gained 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. He found further critical and commercial success in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002). He continued to gain praise for starring in the war film Cold Mountain (2003), the drama Closer (2004), and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), gaining Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the first of these.
Law played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a younger Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. His other notable roles were in Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015); and the television series The Young Pope (2016) and The New Pope (2020).
Law has also had an accomplished career on stage, performing in several West End and Broadway productions such as Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. He received Tony Award nominations for the first and second of these.
Law's Riff Raff Entertainment, founded with business partner Ben Jackson, inked a first-look deal for both feature films and television production with New Republic Pictures on April 13, 2021.
Born and raised in London, Law started acting in theatre. After finding small roles in feature films, Law gained 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. He found further critical and commercial success in Enemy at the Gates (2001), Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002). He continued to gain praise for starring in the war film Cold Mountain (2003), the drama Closer (2004), and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006), gaining Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the first of these.
Law played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a younger Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. His other notable roles were in Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015); and the television series The Young Pope (2016) and The New Pope (2020).
Law has also had an accomplished career on stage, performing in several West End and Broadway productions such as Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. He received Tony Award nominations for the first and second of these.
Law's Riff Raff Entertainment, founded with business partner Ben Jackson, inked a first-look deal for both feature films and television production with New Republic Pictures on April 13, 2021.
Known for
Eden
The Order
Firebrand
Peter Pan & Wendy
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
True Things
What If...?
Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
The Third Day: Autumn
The Third Day
The Nest
The Rhythm Section
The New Pope
Skywatch
A Rainy Day in New York
Captain Marvel
Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Vox Lux
Neo Yokio
Free Speech Fear Free
National Theatre Live: Obsession
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
The Young Pope
Genius
The Roof
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Vote
Spy
Black Sea
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Dom Hemingway
Toast of London
Muse of Fire
Connection
Side Effects
Radioman
Rise of the Guardians
Anna Karenina
360
Honest Trailers
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Contagion
Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented
Repo Men
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Sherlock Holmes
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Rage
Live from Studio Five
My Blueberry Nights
Sleuth
A Place in Time
The Graham Norton Show
Breaking and Entering
The Holiday
All the King's Men
Live 8
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
The Aviator
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Closer
Alfie
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I ♥ Huckabees
Cold Mountain
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Road to Perdition
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Enemy at the Gates
Presence of Mind
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
Love, Honour and Obey
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tube Tales
The Early Show
eXistenZ
The Wisdom of Crocodiles
Final Cut
Music from Another Room
Operation Good Guys
Bent
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Gattaca
Wilde
The View
I Love You, I Love You Not
The Daily Show
Shopping
Inside the Actors Studio
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
The Crane
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tailor of Gloucester
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Sherlock Holmes
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars