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"Whether he is gaining publicity for the right or wrong reasons, Jude Law is ever-present. The actor&amp;#039;s private life has sometimes overshadowed his achievements, yet he is still going strong both on screen and stage. With his new film Dom Hemingway, in which he plays a destructive safecracker, hitting cinemas next week, we round up ten facts about Mr. Law.  1. Jude Law was born on December 29, 1972 to teachers Margaret Anne and Peter Robert in Lewisham, South London. His older sister, Natasha, is a renowned painter and graphic designer. Their parents now run a theatre company in France. 2. The actor&amp;#039;s name derives from Beatles song &amp;#039;Hey Jude&amp;#039; and Thomas Hardy&amp;#039;s Jude The Obscure. He also has a tattoo on his arm of lyrics from the Fab Four&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Sexy Sadie&amp;#039;: &amp;quot;You came along to turn on everyone Sexy Sadie&amp;quot;, which is purportedly meant to link to ex-wife Sadie Frost.  3. Law started acting in the National Youth Music Theatre, but dropped out at 17 to star in the Granada daytime soap Families. When he first joined the NYMT, he was assigned to the girls&amp;#039; dormitory because they thought he was a woman on paper. He initially didn&amp;#039;t tell anyone, but, unsurprisingly, he was caught! 4. Jude Law won the Ian Charleson Award for Best Newcomer in 1994 for Les Parents Terribles. He returned to the stage to play Hamlet in 2009, a role he said he had to play before he was 40. 5. Last year Jude Law teamed up with Radiohead (who he is a big fan of) for a Greenpeace campaign video, and took part in protests against piracy charges brought against Greenpeace activists in Russia this year. His philanthropy does not stop there, as he has championed causes for UNICEF, Macmillan Cancer Support, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Make Poverty History and Friends of the Earth to name but a few.      6. In 2007, he filmed a documentary in Afghanistan on peace commitments with actor and director Jeremy Gilley. In the short period of time they spent there, they spoke to children, ministers and officials for what became the charity Peace One Day&amp;#039;s The Day After Peace. 7. At the 2005 Academy Awards, Jude Law was mocked by host Chris Rock for his numerous film appearances. &amp;quot;Why&amp;#039;s he in every movie I have seen for the last four years? Even the movies he&amp;#039;s not in, if you look at the credits he made cupcakes or something,&amp;quot; Rock quipped. Despite Law supposedly being angry at the remarks and allegedly sacking his agent soon after, he was named one of the top 10 most bankable Hollywood stars in 2006. He was also named &amp;#039;World&amp;#039;s Sexiest Man&amp;#039; in 2004 by People Magazine. 8. The actor has three children with his ex-wife Sadie Frost and a daughter with American supermodel Samantha Burke, whom he had a brief relationship with in 2008.  9. In 2011, he received a \u00C2\u00A3130,000 settlement from News of the World over phone hacking. 10. Despite fewer appearances on the silver screen and media than last decade, Jude Law is still keeping busy, with an upcoming production of Henry V at the Noel Coward Theatre at the end of 2013, alongside Don Hemingway and a possible return to the Sherlock Holmes film series. He recently said in an interview with The Guardian that he is more optimistic than ever now he is in his 40s; with some exciting roles ahead. We&amp;#039;re optimistic too, Jude. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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