Last night, Hugh Jackman picked up a 2005 Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program' for the 2004 Tony Awards. The Tonys themselves were winners as well, having picked up an Emmy for Oustanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special in awards given out last week. Jackman's win beat out John Stewart, Jay Leno, Tracy Ullman and Whoopi Goldberg.
Jackman
is equally popular as a superstar of stage and screen. He won the 2004
Best Actor in a Musical Tony for his tour de force role as fellow
Aussie Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz; he
also hosted the same Tonys ceremony. He was nominated for the 1998 Olivier for Best
Actor in a Musical for his Curly in the Royal National Theatre's Oklahoma! A musical theatre veteran back in Australia, he played Joe Gillis in the 1996 production of Sunset Boulevard in Melbourne, and Gaston in 1995's Beauty and the Beast.He
will bring a solo show extravaganza to both Las Vegas and Australia
next year; more immediately, Jackman is shooting X-Men 3 (repeating his role as Wolverine).
