{"id":66200,"date":"2017-03-03T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/?p=66200"},"modified":"2023-01-07T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T17:59:10","slug":"hugh-jackman-wolverine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzzsouthafrica.com\/hugh-jackman-wolverine\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Know About Hugh Jackman’s Wife, Kids and Health Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hugh Jackman is married to Australian actress and producer Deborra-Lee Furness and together they have two adopted children. Hugh Jackman’s wife, Deborra rose to fame in 1988 for her starring role in the movie Shame<\/i>, for which she won the Film Critics Circle of Australia and Golden Space Needle Awards for Best Actor.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Deborra-Lee Furness and Hugh Jackman got married on 11 April 1996 after they met the previous year on the set of the Australian TV show, Correlli and they have remained together to date. Hugh’s career breakthrough came about four years after they tied the knot and even though he has gone on to become more successful in the acting business than his wife, it has never been a problem between them.<\/p>\n Here’s a little more information about the Aussie actress you might want to know.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hugh Jackman is married to\u00a0actress, Deborra Lee-Furness. The pair, who met while on set\u00a0for\u00a0Correlli,<\/em> an Australian television show, got married on the 11th of April 1996 in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n An Australian native, Deborra Lee-Furness was born on the 30th of November 1955 in\u00a0Annandale, Sydney,\u00a0New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne,\u00a0Victoria. Although nothing is known about her family, including her parents, some information about the actress’ education and career is readily available<\/p>\n While the elementary and high schools she attended have remained unknown, it is no secret that her interest in acting led Deborra to enroll in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City where she studied acting, graduating in 1981 or 1982.<\/p>\n Towards the beginning of her acting career, Deborra Lee-Furness took part in the stage performance of the play\u00a0Falcon Crest<\/i>, which aired as a television series, before going back home to Australia to continue her career there.<\/p>\n She eventually rose to fame in 1988 after she played the lead role of Asta Cadell in the feature film Shame<\/em> for which she won two awards. Since then, she has appeared in many films and television series, including The Flying Doctors, Stark, Angel Baby, Correlli, Fire, <\/i>among many others.<\/p>\n In addition to being known as an actress, Hugh Jackman’s wife is also known for her active involvement in helping orphans worldwide, making international adoptions more efficient and effective, particularly in Australia where she is among the patrons and creators of National Adoption Awareness Week.<\/p>\n She is also a patron of International Adoption Families for Queensland and the Lighthouse Foundation for displaced children. Additionally, Deborra is an ambassador for\u00a0World Vision International, an evangelical Christian humanitarian aid, development, and advocacy organization. She is equally a member of the Advisory Committee for Film Aid International, an organization that\u00a0harnesses the power of film to support vulnerable communities globally.<\/p>\n Hugh Jackman and his wife of 28 years , Deborra-Lee Furness, are parents to two children: a son and a daughter respectively named Oscar Maximillian and Ava Eliot. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2017, Jackman said adoption had always been part of their plan, but it became their only path to becoming parents after Deborra experienced miscarriages and failed IVF.<\/p>\n He recalled telling his wife that since they were always going to adopt “let’s just adopt now.” They didn’t just want to adopt from anywhere, rather they wanted to adopt from a place that there was need. “And we just knew from talking with people in that space, when we were looking around, that the biggest need is in mixed-race kids.”<\/p>\n Thus, Jackman and Furness set out to adopt their first child, Oscar, in 2000. \u00a0Partly Bosnian, Oscar was born in May 2000. The couple’s family increased again in 2005 when they adopted their second child, a baby girl named Ava Eliot, who was born on July 10, 2005.<\/p>\n The Greatest Showman<\/em> star’s successful career notwithstanding, he and his wife are making a deliberate effort to teach their children to be grateful for what they have. Jackman told PEOPLE during a 2018 interview<\/a> that he children have a lot of advantages and that he wants them to understand “that they have a responsibility to use those advantages to help others.”<\/p>\n Continuing, the actor said that his kids are always reminded about how lucky they are in their family. “We’re ridiculously blessed. We live in a beautiful home in places that other people dream of,” he added.<\/p>\n Jackman and Deborra also made it a point of duty to raise Oscar and Ava away from the spotlight, in addition to keeping them humble. As a result, the entertainers hardly share pictures of them, nor do they bring them along to the numerous public events they attend. Nevertheless, they never shy away from expressing how much they value and cherish their family.<\/p>\n Hugh Michael Jackman was born in Sydney on the 12th of October 1968. His parents, Christopher John and Grace McNeil Jackman, were actually English but had relocated to Australia in 1967.<\/p>\n His parents were devout Christians and they raised him in a surrounding of faith. The actor has four older siblings and a younger half-sister from his mom’s remarriage (after his parent’s divorce when he was eight). The actor and his brothers remained in Australia with their father while his sisters moved back to England with their mother.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He attended Pymble Public School for primary education and later attended Sydney’s all boys school – Knox Grammar School for secondary education, where he became the school captain in 1986.<\/p>\n After a year gap, he studied communications at the University of Technology, Syndey where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1991.<\/p>\n After deciding to turn his hobby (acting) into a career, he attended the\u00a0Edith Cowan University’s Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth where he graduated from in 1994.<\/p>\nSummary of Deborra-Lee Furness<\/b>‘s Biography<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Hugh Jackman’s Wife is From Australia<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Actor is a Father of Two<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Who is Hugh Jackman and How Old is He?<\/strong><\/h2>\n