Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born December 29, 1972, in Lewisham, South London, England) is an English actor.
After minor roles in British television, Law had his breakthrough with Shopping which also featured his future wife Sadie Frost. For a time Frost and Law were central to the so called ‘Primrose Hill set’ of young British actors that also included Ewan McGregor.
Law and Sadie Frost had three children during their marriage: Rafferty (born 1996), Iris (born 2000) and Rudy (born 2002). They divorced in 2003.
On November 17, 2004, Jude Law was named People magazine’s sexiest man alive.
The 2004 remake of Alfie was a box-office flop, only making back about half of its estimated $60 million budget, and voted one of the worst remakes of all time by a British film magazine. Some film critics contended that though Law had been effective in supporting roles, his acting range was too limited to carry a film on his own. Other films of his in 2004, such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and I Heart Huckabees also flopped. Nevertheless, Law is considered a fine character actor and has turned in first-rate performances such as Gattaca as a frustrated Olympic medalist bound by a wheelchair, an ill-fated lover of Kevin Spacey’s in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Road to Perdition as a sadistic hitman, and The Talented Mr Ripley, Law’s breakout role for which he was nominated for best supporting actor.
Jude Law became engaged to Sienna Miller, his co-star in the remake of Alfie. On July 18, 2005, Law issued a public apology to his fiancée for having an affair with his childrens’ nanny, Daisy Wright, in New Orleans. Law was quoted as saying “I want to publicly apologise to Sienna and our respective families for the pain that I have caused. There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret and I ask that you respect our privacy at this very difficult time”.[1] In October 2005 Law and Miller ended their engagement. [2]
In 2005, Law and his ex-wife Sadie Frost reached a divorce settlement after nearly two years of negotiations. Frost will keep the couple’s $4 million London house in Primrose Hill, and receive payments from Law totalling $2 million.
In August 2005, Law was photographed nude while attempting to put on his bathing suit at his mother’s home in Vaudelnay, France, and the pictures instantly began circulating on the internet.
Law is a fan of the seminal graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore, so much so he has a tattoo of the Rorschach character. He has maintained an interest in being involved in a feature film production of the series. He found out about a recent production by chance through an interview where he was told Darren Aronofsky, director of Requiem for a Dream was directing a feature film production of Watchmen, to which he responded “Darren Aronofsky?! Watchmen?! I’m there.” He has said that he would most likely play the character Ozymandias.
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