ACTOR · BORN 1972

Jude Law

Born

29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK

Known for

Captain Marvel (2019), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Sherlock Holmes (2009), Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

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8 Facts About Jude Law's Life and Family

1. #003

   Both of Jude Law's parents were orphans.

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2. #007

   Jude Law became engaged to actress Sienna Miller in January 2005. In July 2005, Sienna ended the engagement, and he publicly apologized for cheating on her with nanny Daisy Wright. They briefly reconciled and broke up again in 2006.

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3. #010

   Jude Law was originally the godfather of Kate Moss's daughter Lila Grace Moss, but when he divorced Moss's close friend Sadie Frost, Grace dismissed him from all his duties.

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4. #012

   Jude Law dropped out of school at 17 to take a role in the daytime soap opera Families (1990).

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5. #014

   Kate Moss is the godmother of Jude Law's daughter Iris.

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6. #019

   Jude Law's parents, Peter Law and Maggie Law, were teachers at the National Youth Music Theatre, but they now run a theatre company in France. He has an older sister named Natasha, who is a photographer.

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7. #045

   Jude Law claims his father was at one point the youngest manager in London.

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8. #053

   One of Jude Law's father's great-great-great-grandmothers was Scottish.

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