About Me
~ALL ABOUT JUDE!!~
Name: David Jude Heyworth Law Birth Date: December 29, 1972 Zodiac Sign: Capricorn Birthplace: Lewisham, South London Parents: Peter & Maggie Law, were school teachers,
but now run a theater company in France. Siblings: Natasha Law, a well regarded
illustrator and photographer. Relationships: Sadie Frost, 1997 (divorced, 2003);
Sienna Miller (engaged to but broke off in 2006) Children: Finlay, 1990 (stepson); Rafferty, 1996;
Iris, 2000; Rudy, 2002
-Jude was named the ‘Sexiest Man Alive’ in 2004 by People Magazine.
-Jude used to be roommates with Ewan McGregor.
-Jude broke a rib after falling from a rowing boat during the filming of the murder scene in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ in 1999.
-Jude dropped out of school when he was 17 to star in the daytime soap ‘Families’.
-Jude has two tattoos. One is of a Rorschach butterfly that resembles his initials on his right arm. The other is on his inner left arm. It's a lyric from the Beatles song "Sexy Sadie": "You came along to turn on everyone, sexy Sadie."
-Learned to play saxophone for his part in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’.
-Jude was on People magazine's '50 Most Beautiful' list in 2000 and 2004.
-During a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", Jay Leno asked him where his name came from, and he replied that he was named after the Beatles song "Hey Jude."
-Jude kept the shirts his characters in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Gattaca wore in the scenes when they were killed.
-When joining the N.Y.M.T., Jude was placed in the wrong dormitory because they thought he was a girl because of his name. He never told anyone but was soon caught and moved.
-Jude was the host of "Saturday Night Live" the night of the infamous Ashlee Simpson incident.
-Kate Moss is the godmother of Jude's daughter Iris.
-Band Brand New has a song named after him, titled 'Jude Law and a Semester Abroad', featured on their album Your Favorite Weapon.
-Jude received a prestigious French award for his contribution to film - he was named a knight in the Order of Arts and Letters by French Ambassador Gerard Errera. (March 1, 2007)
-Jude had pulled out of British comic Ricky Gervais’ star-studded television comedy Extras due to work commitments. (March 29, 2005)
-Jude says he always loves a woman who can cook. (March 14, 2005)
-Law had pulled out of a film deal with high-profile couple David and Victoria Beckham after becoming concerned of the amount of press the move would bring him. (September 25, 2003)
-On March 1, 2007, Jude was honored with the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres conferred by the French government, in recognition of his contribution to World Cinema Arts. He was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
-Jude is on the Top Ten List from the 2006 A-list of the most bankable movie stars in Hollywood, following the criteria of James Ulmer in The Ulmer Scale.
-In 2009 Jude will be returning to the London stage to perform the role of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, under the direction of Kenneth Branagh, at the Donmar Warehouse.
-Jude Law is the apparel ambassador of Dunhill. He represented the company in Asia since 2005. In 2008 he is the international face and appears in the worldwide Spring/Summer advertising campaign, apart from commercials in North America.
-In 2002 Sadie Frost and Jude Law supported Respect for Animals with an anti-fur commercial directed by Law, with music specially composed by Gary Kemp.
-In 2006, Frost and Law dedicated their Christmas holidays to direct a Shakespeare play in a South African orphanage. He traveled to Durban, South Africa, with Frost and their children in order to help children who have lost their parents to AIDS. In July 2007, as patron of the charity, he helped kick off the month-long tour of the AIDS-themed musical Thula Sizwe, by The Young Zulu Warriors.
-In July 2007, Jude Law traveled with Jeremy Gilley, the founder of Peace One Day, on a mission to document peace commitments and activities in Afghanistan for an upcoming film which will be released in May 2008 and for marking the UN International Day of Peace. Accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, they traveled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan with a film crew from Peace One Day, interviewing children, government ministers, community leaders and UN officials.
I have created this page for people who adore Jude Law as much as I do. I am a huge fan and I think he is extremely sexy and a wonderful actor. I am completely enthralled by him and cannot resist that beautiful British accent. Please feel free to let me know of any updates on his life, career, or otherwise that I may have missed. I do not know Jude and I have never met him but I sure wish I could.
~Amanda~
"My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing." -Jude Law
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