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David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British 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 an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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).

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. The French government has also awarded him the Honorary Césarand and named him a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters.

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2025 The Wizard of the Kremlin as Vladimir Putin

2025 Sherlock Holmes 3 as Dr. John Watson

2025 Untitled Jude Law x Justin Kuritzkes Movie

2025 The Hat

2025 Eden as Dr. Friedrich Ritter

2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self

2024 The Order as Terry Husk Producer

2024 Star Wars: Skeleton Crew as Jod Na Nawood

2024 Firebrand as Henry VIII

2023 Peter Pan & Wendy as James Hook

2023 Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask as Self

2022 Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore as Albus Dumbledore

2022 True Things Producer

2021 Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall

2020 The Third Day: Autumn as Sam

2020 The Nest as Rory O'Hara Executive Producer

2020 The Rhythm Section as Iain Boyd "B"

2019 Skywatch as Man on Roof

2019 A Rainy Day in New York as Ted Davidoff

2019 Captain Marvel as Yon-Rogg

2018 Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas as Charles

2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald as Albus Dumbledore

2018 Vox Lux as Manager Executive Producer

2017 Free Speech Fear Free as Self

2017 National Theatre Live: Obsession as Gino

2017 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword as Vortigern

2016 Genius as Thomas Wolfe

2016 The Roof as And Yet Another Fan

2015 The Vote as Colin Henderson

2015 Spy as Bradley Fine

2014 Black Sea as Captain Robinson

2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Young Author

2013 Dom Hemingway as Dom Hemingway

2013 Muse of Fire as Self

2013 Connection as Self

2013 Side Effects as Jonathan Banks

2012 Radioman as Self

2012 Rise of the Guardians as Pitch (voice)

2012 Anna Karenina as Karenin

2012 360 as Michael Daly

2012 Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry as Self

2011 Hugo as Hugo's Father

2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows as Dr. John Watson

2011 Contagion as Alan Krumwiede

2011 Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10

2010 Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented as Self

2010 Repo Men as Remy

2010 Exit Through the Gift Shop as Self (uncredited)

2010 Harold Pinter: A Celebration as Self

2009 Sherlock Holmes as Dr. John Watson

2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus as Imaginarium Tony 2

2009 Rage as Minx

2009 The Day After Peace as Self

2007 My Blueberry Nights as Jeremy

2007 Sleuth as Milo Tindle Producer

2007 A Place in Time as Self

2006 Breaking and Entering as Will Francis

2006 The Holiday as Graham

2006 All the King's Men as Jack Burden

2005 Live 8 as Self

2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self

2004 The Aviator as Errol Flynn

2004 Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as Lemony Snicket (voice)

2004 Closer as Dan

2004 Alfie as Alfie

2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow as Sky Captain Producer

2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Brad Stand

2003 Cold Mountain as Inman

2002 Road to Perdition as Harlen Maguire

2001 A.I. Artificial Intelligence as Gigolo Joe

2001 Enemy at the Gates as Vassili Zaitsev

2000 Presence of Mind as Secretary

2000 Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self

2000 Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier as Self

2000 Love, Honour and Obey as Jude

2000 Happy M’Gee

2000 Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley as Dickie Greenleaf

1999 Tube Tales Director

1999 eXistenZ as Ted Pikul

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack as Self

1998 Immortality as Steven Grlscz

1998 Final Cut as Jude

1998 Music from Another Room as Danny Kowalski

1997 Bent as Stormtrooper

1997 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as Billy Carl Hanson

1997 Gattaca as Jerome Eugene Morrow

1997 Wilde as Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

1996 I Love You, I Love You Not as Ethan / SS Officer

1994 Shopping as Billy

1993 The Crane as Young Man

1989 The Tailor of Gloucester as Mayor's Stableboy

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