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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Primarily2025 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
7.93 TV Movie 3
7.16 War 2
7.03 Music 3
6.92 Unknown 1
6.91 Mystery 10
6.80 Science Fiction 8
6.76 History 7
6.66 Adventure 15
6.57 Documentary 15
6.56 Crime 12
6.48 Family 6
6.47 Romance 15
6.43 Action 15
6.43 Fantasy 7
6.42 Comedy 13
6.36 Drama 41
6.18 Thriller 19
5.69 Animation 2
5.19 Horror 2