After vaulting to international fame as the feral antihero Wolverine in a series of feature films inspired by Marvel Comics' best-selling X-Men franchise, actor Hugh Jackman returned to his first love, musical theater, with a Tony Award-winning turn as Broadway icon Peter Allen in the acclaimed The Boy from Oz. Born in Sydney, Australia, on October 12, 1968, Jackman studied journalism, and while earning his degree in communications took his first acting class solely to fulfill a course requirement. He nevertheless found the stage much to his liking, and in 1994 graduated from ...