Hugh Jackman, set to return to Broadway this fall in Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, visits with David Letterman on Late Show.
Jackman began his career onstage, starring in Sunset Boulevard andBeauty and the Beast in his native Australia. In London he won raves in Trevor Nunn’s staging of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! at the National Theatre. Jackman won the 2004 Best Actor Tony and many other awards for playing Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz and returned to the Great White Way in 2009 in the drama A Steady Rain. On the big screen, Jackman has starred as Wolverine in three X-Menmovies and appeared in The Fountain, The Prestige, Scoop, Australia, Swordfish, Van Helsing, Kate and Leopold and the forthcoming Real Steel, among others. He will begin filming Les Miserables, directed by Tom Hooper, early next year.