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7 unusual facts about Jude Law


Battle of the Crater

The Battle of the Crater was graphically portrayed in the opening scenes of the 2003 film Cold Mountain starring actor Jude Law as a Confederate soldier.

Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad

A sub plot of the book has since been turned into a major motion picture "Enemy at the gates" starring Jude Law.

Eric Garcia

In June 2007, it was announced that Jude Law and Forest Whitaker would star in Repo Men, a movie co-written by Garcia with Garrett Lerner, a writer for Fox Broadcasting's House.

Godalming railway station

In February 2006 Godalming station was renamed "Shere" for three days while filming took place for The Holiday, a movie starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black and Kate Winslet.

Maggie Cassella

Over the years Cassella has interviewed comedy legends such as Phyllis Diller, Bea Arthur and Joan Rivers, as well as performers such as William H. Macy, Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Robert Downey, Jr., Laura Linney, Eartha Kitt and k.d. lang.

Ramsdean

Actor Jude Law currently resides in Ramsdean with his children attending the nearby Bedales School in Petersfield.

Vasily Zaytsev

In 2001, a feature length film, Enemy at the Gates, starring Jude Law as Zaytsev, was based on part of William Craig's book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which includes a "sniper's duel" between Zaytsev and a Wehrmacht sniper school director, Major Erwin König.


Avenues and Alleyways

It is included in the soundtrack of the 2000 film Love, Honour and Obey, starring Ray Winstone and Jude Law.

Bonnie Curtis

In her professional career, she has worked with a variety of actors, including Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Jude Law, Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel, Tom Cruise, and Colin Farrell.

Chalk Farm

Home to a number of writers, artists and actors, Chalk Farm and Primrose Hill are popular places to celebrity spot where Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller are all part of the area's famous set.

Davinia Taylor

Since giving up acting around the same time as her marriage in 2003, Taylor has become frequently been featured in the British tabloid press, as part of the Primrose Hill set with Sadie Frost (actress and ex-wife of Jude Law), and supermodel Kate Moss.

Giles Terera

His first documentary, Muse of Fire, created with Dan Poole, will centre around modern perspectives of Shakespeare and will feature interviews with actors and filmmakers such as Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Jude Law, Julie Taymor, Fiona Shaw and Baz Luhrmann.

Jeremy Gilley

In early September 2008 Gilley and Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to screen The Day After Peace there, Hamid Karzai, and document preparations for the polio vaccination on 21 September 2008 of 1.85 million children under 5 years old, in seven Afghan provinces where conflict has previously prevented access.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

As well as many music videos and feature films, including Jude Law's The Wisdom of Crocodiles, it was also used as the location for the 1991-1995 title sequence of the BBC music show Top of the Pops.

Old Ford Lock

An old foundry next to the "Big Breakfast" house was used as the main movie location for Anthony Minghellas film Breaking and Entering, starring Jude Law and Juliette Binoche.

Operation Good Guys

There were three series produced, which featured guest stars including David Seaman, Jude Law, Sean Pertwee, Jonny Lee Miller, gangster "Mad Frankie" Fraser, ex Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp, Denise van Outen and Donna Air.

Patrick Marber

A screen adaptation, written by Marber, was released in 2004, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen.

Will Houston

He appeared as Constable 'Clarky' Clarke in the 2009 film 'Sherlock Holmes' alongside Robert Downey, Jr and Jude Law,directed by Guy Ritchie (credited as William Houston)


see also

Enemy at the Gate

Enemy at the Gates, a 2001 film starring Jude Law and Joseph Fiennes, partly based on William Craig's book.

Genetic determinism

Gattaca, a 1997 film starring Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law

Les Parents terribles

The same production, under the new title Indiscretions, was presented in New York in 1995 at the Barrymore Theater, again with Jude Law but with different actors in the other roles: Kathleen Turner (Yvonne), Eileen Atkins (Leo), Roger Rees, and Cynthia Nixon.

Your Favorite Weapon

The album was released in the UK on March 17, 2003, by Eat Sleep Records, followed shortly by the single "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad", released on CD and 7" vinyl, two and a half months later on June 2, 2003. "Jude Law and a Semester Abroad" had also previously been made into a music video.