David
Jude Law (born 29 December 1972) is a two-time Oscar-nominated
English actor. He began acting with the National Youth Music
Theatre in 1987, and he won awards for several of his roles. In
1989 he got his first TV role in a movie based on a Beatrix Potter
book, and then he had a minor role in the British television soap
opera Families and the leading role in the BFI /Channel 4 short
The Crane. In 1997, he became better known for his role as Oscar
Wilde's lover in the biopic Wilde, and winning the Evening
Standard British Film Award as "Most Promising
Newcomer". He is on the Top Ten List from the 2006 A-list of
the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, based on the criteria
set out by journalist James Ulmer in his Ulmer Scale. On March 1,
2007, he was honored with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
conferred by the French government, in recognition of his
contribution to World Cinema Arts. He was named a "Chevalier
des Arts et des Lettres". In 2009, he will return to the
theatre stage to perform the role of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's play
Hamlet, under the direction of Kenneth Branagh ... more
