“I’m now all about the sunscreen. The kids are very mindful of me now, always telling me, ‘Dad, sit in the shade’”


Not just a


song and


A self-acclaimed lover of musical theatre, 49-year-old Australian actor Hugh Jackman is famous for playing a wide variety of roles, from Jean Valjean in Les Miserables to the X- Men’sWolverine. He has also been nicknamed the nicest man in Hollywood. A true gentleman, Jackman has indeed built up an


impressive career. Even if you haven’t seen his work in films such as Kate and Leopold, The Prestige, Australia and, more recently, The Greatest Showman – in which he plays the legendary American showman PT Barnum – you’re more than likely to have witnessed his superhero turn in the X-Men movie franchise.


6 All About health


dance


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Relentlessly friendly, upbeat and down to earth, Aussie actor Hugh Jackman is a Hollywood A-lister with many unforgettable movies – plus a much-publicised encounter with skin cancer – under his belt


Skin scare Besides being an actor at the peak of his career, Jackman is a devoted family man and lives in New York with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness – an Australian actress – and their two adopted children, Oscar and Ava. It was Deborra-Lee who urged Jackman to have a problem with his nose checked out, which led to a diagnosis of skin cancer. That was back in 2013, and since then the actor has had six skin cancers – or basal cell carcinomas – removed from his nose. “Unfortunately it's something that I have a genetic


predisposition to,” he says. “I have English fair skin and it's pretty common in Australia. And all I can do is be vigilant,


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