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How tall is Hugh Jackman?

Taller than P.T. Barnum. Probably.

In light of news that 55-year-old song and danceman X-Men franchise and erstwhile Van Helsing. Questions have begun to bubble up about his personal life, his career trajectory, and, perhaps most damningly, his height.

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And while many of these questions will likely go unanswered, there’s one thing that we here at WGTC are now prepared to confirm: Hugh Jackman is 6’3.” 

How tall were some of Hugh Jackman’s most famous characters?

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Jackman’s substantial size was one of a seemingly endless list of complaints that preemptively frustrated comic book fans had about Jackman in the days leading up to 2000’s X-Men. Wolverine, the character that would define much of the performer’s career as he returned to it time and time again over the next quarter of a century, was traditionally portrayed as standing a full foot shorter than Jackman at 5’3.

Outrage turned to grumbling acceptance as viewers came to accept the 75-inch Australian as the best and only actor to play the 63-inch Canadian.

Meanwhile, P.T. Barnum, a wildly fictionalized version of whom Jackman played in the hit 2017 musical The Greatest Showman, was reported to be anywhere between 5’10 and 6’2, making Jackman’s height one of the most true-to-life aspects of Barnum’s portrayal in the movie. To date, the greatest height differential between Jackman and a character that he portrayed — and this is true — came in 2006 with Flushed Away, in which he played a four-inch-long rat.


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Tom Meisfjord
Tom is an entertainment writer with five years of experience in the industry, and thirty more years of experience outside of it. His fields of expertise include superheroes, classic horror, and most franchises with the word "Star" in the title. An occasionally award-winning comedian, he resides in the Pacific Northwest with his dog, a small mutt with impulse control issues.