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Jude Law's full name is David Jude Heyworth Law. He was given the first name David after his father's best friend, but has always been known by his middle name Jude, which was taken from the protagonist of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure and the Beatles' song "Hey Jude."
Jude Law won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). He was also nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award in the same category.
Jude Law was born on the 29th of December 1972 in the London borough of Lewisham. He grew up in Blackheath, in the borough of Greenwich, with his older sister Natasha, and attended Alleyn's School before dropping out at age 17 to pursue acting.
Jude Law played Lenny Belardo, an American cardinal who becomes pope, in the ten-episode HBO series The Young Pope (2016), directed by Paolo Sorrentino and jointly produced by Sky Atlantic, Canal+, and HBO. He reprised the role in the spin-off series The New Pope, which premiered on HBO on the 13th of January 2020.
People magazine named Jude Law the Sexiest Man Alive in its November 2004 issue. His co-star Naomi Watts was quoted describing him as "the most beautiful man who ever walked the earth."
In July 2007, Jude Law and filmmaker Jeremy Gilley travelled to Afghanistan for ten days, accompanied by UNICEF Representative Catherine Mbengue, to document peace activities tied to the UN International Day of Peace. The resulting film, The Day After Peace, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and later screened at the Royal Albert Hall on the 21st of September 2008. Law returned to Afghanistan on the 30th of August 2008, meeting President Hamid Karzai and senior NATO and UN officials.