Furness had two miscarriages, following which she and Jackman adopted two children. Jackman and his family live in New York. In September 2023, the couple announced that they had separated.
In 2021, Jackman and Deborra-lee fulfilled a lifelong ambition to design their own home. Their waterfront dream house is located in a quiet area of East Hampton in New York.
Hugh and Deborra-Lee also have a property in Sydney, where they spend several months a year. Back in 2016, they snapped up an ocean-front apartment in Bondi Beach for $5.9million. The newly-built, three-bedroom property effortlessly blends Hollywood luxury with quintessentially Australian beach views.
Actor Hugh Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness are to separate after 27 years of marriage, US media have reported. According to celebrity magazine People, the Australian couple said they had been "blessed to share almost three decades together".
Jackman grew up in Sydney, and he made his acting debut as King Arthur in a production of Camelot when he was just five years old. After graduating in 1991 from the University of Technology, Sydney, with a degree in communications, Jackman began working temporary jobs to pay for classes at the Actors Centre Australia.
Jackman has long enjoyed a reputation as one of Hollywood's nicest A-listers, to the extent that he has to deny it. “I'm not always nice,” he says. “I've had my moments on set, for sure, when I haven't been nice.
What's the age difference between Hugh Jackman and his wife?
Though Deborra-lee Jackman is 13 years older than her husband, she apparently acts a lot younger. “I'm literally the adult in the relationship," Hugh Jackman told People in 2017. "She's just like a little kid.
Jackman was raised Christian, attending multiple revivals during his childhood. In a 2015 interview, he identified as Christian but says his version of faith differs from his father's. "He takes his religion very seriously and would prefer I go to church," "We've had discussions about our separate beliefs.
Jackman and Furness met on the set of the Australian TV series " Correlli" in 1995. " Correlli" was Jackman's first acting gig out of drama school and Furness was already a big star. In an interview with People in 2017, Jackman recalled meeting Furness for the first time.
A Woollahra mansion that was rented by recently separated couple Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness for the filming of X-Men Origins: Wolverine is set to hit the market. The incredible stately home, with pool, tennis court and north-easterly aspect, is at 38-40 Wallaroy Rd.
Jackman grew up in Wahroonga, an exclusive suburb on Sydney's Upper North Shore, but didn't have the happiest of childhoods. In 2012, the Wolverine star, 45, revealed his mother Grace walked out on his family when he was just eight.
Bradley Cooper purchased a $13.5 million Greenwich Village townhouse in May, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The actor, who currently stars in the new movie “A Star is Born,” registered the property under the “Cool Trust” to keep the sale hush-hush, city documents reveal.
Hugh and Deborra-Lee Jackman are the parents of two children, whom they adopted as young children: Oscar, 23 and Ava, 18. “To be clear, Deb and I always wanted to adopt. So that was always in our plan,” Hugh Jackman told Katie Couric in 2012.
Though Jackman said they "were always going to adopt," adoption became their clear path to parenthood after experiencing miscarriages and IVF (in vitro fertilization). "It was not easy. It was difficult, obviously particularly on Deb," the father of two told PEOPLE in 2017.
Deborra-Lee Furness is an actress, producer, director and adoption advocate. She has been working in the entertainment industry in Australia since the 1980s. She was already a famous actress in her own right when she met Jackman in 1995.
Does Hugh Jackman have a relationship with his mother?
For those unfamiliar with Hugh's tragic backstory, his mum - Grace McNeil - abandoned her son to start a new life in the United Kingdom, and never came back. And whilst the mother and son pair have since rekindled their relationship, Hugh says it has taken ''a village'' to help him recover from the trauma of his past.
“After the past few years, the love they had for each other turned more into a friendship which got broken during Covid, as the lockdown didn't help their marriage at all and really put a strain on their relationship,” the source said. “They worked on it and couldn't get it back.
