Jude Law Biography (1972-)

Full name, David Jude Law; born December 29, 1972, in London, England; son ofPeter (a teacher and theater company manager) and Maggie (a teacher and theater company manager) Law; married Sadie Frost (an actress); children: Rafferty, Iris, Rudy; (stepson) Finley Kemp. Addresses: Agent: Josh Lieberman, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Julian Belfrage Associates, 46 Albemarle St., London W1S 4DF England; The Gersh Agency, 232 N. Cannon Dr. #201, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.; Publicist: PMK/HBH,8500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director
Birth Details: December 29, 1972; London, United Kingdom

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Young man, The Crane (short), 1992
Billy, Shopping, Concorde-New Horizons, 1994
Ethan, I Love You, I Love You Not, Buena Vista Home Video, 1996
Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, Wilde (also known as Oscar Wilde), Sony Pictures Classics, 1997
Jerome Eugene Morrow, Gattaca (also known as The Eighth Day), Columbia/Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1997
Stormtrooper, Bent, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1997
Billy Carl Hanson, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, WarnerBros., 1997
Steven Grlscz, The Wisdom of Crocodiles (also known as Immortality), Miramax, 1998
Danny, Music from Another Room, Orion/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1998
Jude, Final Cut, Fugitive Features, 1998
Ted Pikul, eXistenZ (also known as Crimes of the Future), Dimension/Miramax, 1998
Dickie Greenleaf, The Talented Mr. Ripley (also known as The Strange Mr. Ripley and The Mysterious Yearning Secretative Sad Lonely Troubled Confused Loving Musical Gifted Intelligent Beautiful Tender SensitiveHaunted Passionate Talented Mr. Ripley), Paramount, 1999
(Uncredited) Secretary, Presence of Mind (also known as El Celo), Cargo Films, 1999
Jude, Love, Honour and Obey (also known as London Dogs, Love, Honor, and Obey, and Love, Honour & Obey), Keystone Pictures, 2000
Vassili Zaitsev, Enemy at the Gates (also known as Duell-Enemyat the Gates), Paramount, 2001
Gigolo Joe, Artificial Intelligence: AI (also known as A.I. Artificial Intelligence), Warner Bros., 2001
Himself, AI: A Portrait of Gigolo Joe, 2002
Harlen Maguire, Road to Perdition, DreamWorks Distribution LLC, 2002
William Shakespeare, Marlowe, 2002
Inman, Cold Mountain, Miramax, 2003

Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde, The Diary of a Young London Physician, Warner Bros., 2003
Television Appearances
Series
Nathan Thompson, Families, 1991
Specials
Sam, The Tailor of Gloucester, PBS, 1990
Himself, The Orange British Academy Film Awards, 2000
The 72nd Annual Academy Awards Presentations, ABC, 2000
Movies
Bruno, The Marshal, HTV International, 1993
Episodic
Joe Barnes, "Shoscombe Old Place," The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, WGBH Boston, 1991
Himself, "Stardust," Operation Good Guys, 1999
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, 2001
The Late Show with David Letterman, 2002
Television Work
Episodic
"A Bird in the Hand," Tube Tales, 1999
Stage Appearances
(London debut) Foxtrot Darling, The Fastest Clock in the Universe,London, 1992
Blaise, The Snow Orchid, Gate Theatre, London, England, 1993
Col, Live Like Pigs, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, 1993
Happy, Death of a Salesman, West Yorkshire Playhouse, England, 1994
Title role, Ion, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1994
Michael, Les Parents Terribles, Royal National Theater, London, England, 1995
(Broadway debut) Michael, Indiscretions, Ethel Barrymore Theatre,New York City, 1995
Tis a Pity She's a Whore, Young Vic Theatre, London, 1999
Dr. Faustus, Young Vic Theatre, London, 2002
Also appeared in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, National Youth Music Theatre.
Major Tours
Freddie, Pygmalion, Italian cities, 1992

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Newsmakers 2000, Issue 3, Gale Group, 2000

Periodicals

The Advocate, August 14, 2001, p. 90
Interview, July, 2001, p. 54
Los Angeles Magazine, May, 1998, p. 88
People Weekly, May 14, 2001, p. 171; July 22, 2002, p. 41; September 30, 2002, p. 103
Premiere, November, 1997, pp. 42-47
US, December, 1997, p. 68

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