Salon.com > Nathan Lee http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Supreme Law http://www.salon.com/2004/11/11/hey_jude/ http://www.salon.com/2004/11/11/hey_jude/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:52:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/feature/2004/11/11/hey_jude FACTS
Jude Law was born at the tail end of 1972, one of the most sexed-up years in popular movie history: "Deliverance," "Cabaret," "Deep Throat," "Last Tango in Paris." As a young man, he starred in a popular British soap opera before finding fame on Broadway opposite Kathleen Turner in Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions." He spent most of the first scene of the second act naked in a bathtub. Obviously, he was nominated for a Tony.

Throughout the 1990s he gave notable performances in films of various quality: "Wilde," "Gattaca," "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Existenz," "The Talented Mr. Ripley." One of these, "Existenz," is a masterpiece, but it was "Ripley" that nudged him onto the Hollywood A-list, and earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. (Sheer madness that Miramax didn't secure him a win over Michael Caine in "The Cider House Rules.")

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