David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in British theatre before landing small roles in various television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition (2002), Minghella's Cold Mountain (2003), for which he earned Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, in addition to the drama Closer (2004) and the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006). His subsequent roles were as Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), a young Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), and Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019); all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. Other notable films include Contagion (2011), Hugo (2011), Side Effects (2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Spy (2015), as well as the television series The Young Pope (2016), The New Pope (2020), and Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (2024), earning a Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Performer nomination for the latter. In addition to his film work, Law has performed in several West End and Broadway productions, including Les Parents terribles in 1994, Hamlet in 2010, and Anna Christie in 2011. These earned him nominations for two Tony Awards. He has also been awarded the Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jude Law, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2027Paris Paramount
• 2026The Wizard of the Kremlin — Vladimir Putin
• Black Rabbit — Jake Friedken, Executive Producer
• 2025Eden — Ritter
• 2024Firebrand — Henry VIII
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — Jod Na Nawood
• 2024The Order — Terry Husk, Producer
• 2023Peter Pan & Wendy — James Hook
• 2022Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore — Albus Dumbledore
• 2022True Things — Producer
• 2021Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
• What If...? — Yon-Rogg (voice)
• 2020The Hat — Mystery Assailant
• 2020The Nest — Rory O'Hara, Executive Producer
• The New Pope — Pius XIII / Lenny Belardo, Executive Producer
• 2020The Rhythm Section — Iain Boyd "B"
• The Third Day — Sam
• 2020The Third Day: Autumn — Sam
• 2019A Rainy Day in New York — Ted Davidoff
• 2019Captain Marvel — Yon-Rogg
• 2019Skywatch — Man on Roof
• 2018Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald — Albus Dumbledore
• 2018Vox Lux — Manager, Executive Producer
• 2017King Arthur: Legend of the Sword — Vortigern
• 2017National Theatre Live: Obsession — Gino
• Neo Yokio — Charles (voice)
• 2016Genius — Thomas Wolfe
• 2016The Roof — And Yet Another Fan
• The Young Pope — Lenny Belardo / Pope Pius XIII, Producer
• 2015Spy — Bradley Fine
• 2015The Vote — Colin Henderson
• 2014Black Sea — Captain Robinson
• 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel — Young Author
• 2013Dom Hemingway — Dom Hemingway
• 2013Side Effects — Jonathan Banks
• Toast of London — Jude Law
• 2012360 — Michael Daly
• 2012Anna Karenina — Karenin
• 2012Rise of the Guardians — Pitch (voice)
• 2012The Boy in the Oak — Narrator (voice)
• 2011Contagion — Alan Krumwiede
• 2011Hugo — Hugo's Father
• 2011Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
• 2011Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows — Dr. John Watson
• 2010Repo Men — Remy
• 2009Rage — Minx
• 2009Sherlock Holmes — Dr. John Watson
• 2009The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Imaginarium Tony 2
• 2007My Blueberry Nights — Jeremy
• 2007Sleuth — Milo Tindle, Producer
• 2006All the King's Men — Jack Burden
• 2006Breaking and Entering — Will Francis
• 2006The Holiday — Graham
• 2004Alfie — Alfie
• 2004Closer — Dan
• 2004I ♥ Huckabees — Brad Stand
• 2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events — Lemony Snicket
• 2004Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow — Sky Captain, Producer
• 2004The Aviator — Errol Flynn
• 2003Cold Mountain — Inman
• 2002Road to Perdition — Harlen Maguire
• 2001A.I. Artificial Intelligence — Gigolo Joe
• 2001Enemy at the Gates — Vassili Zaitsev
• 2000Happy M’Gee
• 2000Love, Honour and Obey — Jude
• 2000Presence of Mind — Secretary
• 1999The Talented Mr. Ripley — Dickie Greenleaf
• 1999Tube Tales — Director
• 1999eXistenZ — Ted Pikul
• 1998Final Cut — Jude
• 1998Immortality — Steven Grlscz
• 1998Music from Another Room — Danny Kowalski
• 1997Bent — Stormtrooper
• 1997Gattaca — Jerome Eugene Morrow
• 1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — Billy Carl Hanson
• Operation Good Guys
• 1997Wilde — Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
• 1996I Love You, I Love You Not — Ethan / SS Officer
• 1994Shopping — Billy
• 1993The Crane — Young Man
• 1989The Tailor of Gloucester — Mayor's Stableboy
• Sherlock Holmes — Joe Barnes
• The South Bank Show
• Do Not Disturb — Executive Producer, Director
• Scapegoat
• Untitled Getaway Driver Thriller — Producer
• Wild Things — Siegfried, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (38)

• 2025Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music — Self
• 2024A Look Through His Lens — Self
• Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
• 2023Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask — Self
• 2017Free Speech Fear Free — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 2013Connection — Self
• 2013Muse of Fire — Self
• 2012Radioman — Self
• 2012Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry — Self
• 2010Exit Through the Gift Shop — Self (uncredited)
• 2010Harold Pinter: A Celebration — Self
• 2010Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009The Day After Peace — Self
• 2007A Place in Time — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2005Live 8 — Self
• 2005Nos Bastidores de Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• Parkinson — Self - Guest
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• 2000Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier — Self
• 2000Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' — Self
• 2000Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley' — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• 1999The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack — Self
• Elle Style Awards — Self - Winner
• The View — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self