Biography
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an English actor. He began his career in theatre before landing small roles in various British television productions and feature films. Law gained international recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Law found further critical and commercial success in Steven Spielberg's...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Wizard of the Kremlin
2025
as Vladimir Putin
Russia, in the early 1990’s is the aftermath of the USSR’s collapse. In a new world that promises freedom and flirts with chaos, a young artist-turned...

Eden
2025
as Dr. Friedrich Ritter
A group of people is fueled by a profound desire for change. In order to turn their back to society they leave everything behind and set their futures...

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025
as Self
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

The Order
2024
as Terry Husk
A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal gover...

The Order
2024
Producer
A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads veteran FBI agent Terry Husk into a white supremacist plot to overthrow the federal gover...

Firebrand
2024
as Henry VIII
Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and parano...

Peter Pan & Wendy
2023
as James Hook
Wendy Darling, a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, meets Peter Pan, a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers and a tin...

Punchdrunk: Behind the Mask
2023
as Self
Discover the story of Punchdrunk, the pioneering and hugely secretive theatre company whose productions have reinvented an art form and changed the ru...

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
2022
as Albus Dumbledore
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him a...

True Things
2022
Producer
A young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.

Letters Live from the Archive: Freemasons’ Hall
2021
Inspired by "Letters of Note", the bestselling anthology compiled by Shaun Usher, and "To the Letter" by Simon Garfield, Letters Live is a series of c...

The Third Day: Autumn
2020
as Sam
The Third Day: Autumn invites viewers deeper into the suspenseful world of The Third Day. Featuring members of The Third Day cast including Jude Law, ...

The Nest
2020
as Rory O'Hara
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After a...

The Nest
2020
Executive Producer
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After a...

The Rhythm Section
2020
as Iain Boyd "B"
When she discovers the plane crash that claimed the lives of her family was no accident, Stephanie Patrick enters the dark, complex world of internati...

Skywatch
2019
as Man on Roof
When two outcast teens hack into a drone to pull a prank on their neighbor, they accidentally find themselves on the run from the delivery corporation...

A Rainy Day in New York
2019
as Ted Davidoff
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they're met with bad weather and a series of adventures.

Captain Marvel
2019
as Yon-Rogg
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between...

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas
2018
as Charles (voice) / Sadie (voice) / Maitre D (voice)
The holidays take a hit as Kaz juggles the Secret Santa competition, his Aunt Angelique's visit and his nemesis Arcangelo's Christmas plotting.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
2018
as Albus Dumbledore
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only o...

Vox Lux
2018
as Manager
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making...

Vox Lux
2018
Executive Producer
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making...

Free Speech Fear Free
2017
as Self
Can we really be fully human without Free Speech? Is free speech the oxygen of our society? Without it we crumble. Free Speech Fear Free get's to the ...

National Theatre Live: Obsession
2017
as Gino
Gino is a drifter, down-at-heel and magnetically handsome. At a road side restaurant he encounters husband and wife, Joseph and Hanna. Irresistibly at...

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
2017
as Vortigern
When the child Arthur’s father is murdered, Vortigern, Arthur’s uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Ar...

Genius
2016
as Thomas Wolfe
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald...

The Roof
2016
as And Yet Another Fan
A brief comedy about a visit from a legendary theatre maker and his legion of fans.

The Vote
2015
as Colin Henderson
On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and volunteers....

Spy
2015
as Bradley Fine
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster.

Black Sea
2014
as Captain Robinson
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and d...

The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014
as Young Author
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becom...

Dom Hemingway
2013
as Dom Hemingway
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect...

Muse of Fire
2013
as Self
Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

Connection
2013
as Self
A celebrity meets a person at the airport. All is fine until the person finds out that if they return home, they will be arrested.

Side Effects
2013
as Jonathan Banks
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Radioman
2012
as Self
The extraordinary story of 'Radioman', a New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film i...

Rise of the Guardians
2012
as Pitch (voice)
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protec...

Anna Karenina
2012
as Karenin
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vro...

360
2012
as Michael Daly
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous w...
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Perfect Chemistry
2012
as Self
The ever-budding relationship between Holmes and Watson, as well as the bonding duo who portray them.

Hugo
2011
as Hugo's Father
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the statio...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
2011
as Dr. John Watson
There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of ...

Contagion
2011
as Alan Krumwiede
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control t...

Saturday Night Live: The Best of '09/'10
2011
Enjoy some of the bet sketches from SNL's 35th season including Will Forte as MacGruber, Kenan Thompson's Deandre Cole in What Up With That?, Fred Arm...

Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented
2010
as Self
Making of featurette for Sherlock Holmes (2009).

Repo Men
2010
as Remy
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payme...

Exit Through the Gift Shop
2010
as Self (uncredited)
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the ...

Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
as Self
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theat...

Sherlock Holmes
2009
as Dr. John Watson
Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy ...

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2009
as Imaginarium Tony 2
A travelling theatre company has more to it than meets the eye.

Rage
2009
as Minx
A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the inte...
The Day After Peace
2009
as Self
Against all the odds an individual manages to create an annual global 'Peace Day'; but can he inspire an actual ceasefire and silence the cynics by pr...

My Blueberry Nights
2007
as Jeremy
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams ac...

Sleuth
2007
as Milo Tindle
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

Sleuth
2007
Producer
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

A Place in Time
2007
as Self
The film takes a look at the daily lives of people in more than two dozen countries around the world during the course of a week. In the film, celebri...

Breaking and Entering
2006
as Will Francis
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape a...

The Holiday
2006
as Graham
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes th...

All the King's Men
2006
as Jack Burden
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 ...

Live 8
2005
as Self
On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians fr...

Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
as Self

The Aviator
2004
as Errol Flynn
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer ...

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
2004
as Lemony Snicket (voice)
Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and se...

Closer
2004
as Dan
A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

Alfie
2004
as Alfie
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004
as Sky Captain
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has ...

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004
Producer
When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has ...

I ♥ Huckabees
2004
as Brad Stand
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind...

Cold Mountain
2003
as Inman
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts ...

Road to Perdition
2002
as Harlen Maguire
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, ...

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
2001
as Gigolo Joe
David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually b...

Enemy at the Gates
2001
as Vassili Zaitsev
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Presence of Mind
2000
as Secretary
A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
as Self
A look inside the making of 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'.

Frame by Frame: The Invisible Art of Production Designer Carol Spier
2000
as Self
The invisible art of production designer Carol Spier. The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. FRAME BY FRAME is a ...

Love, Honour and Obey
2000
as Jude
Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his wa...
Happy M’Gee
2000
In the near future a neurodiverse man causes a fatal accident with deadly repercussions for his brother.
Reflections on 'the Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000
as Self
The stars of director of the film reflect upon their experiences.

The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
as Dickie Greenleaf
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U...

Tube Tales
1999
Director
Nine short stories based on the true experiences of London Underground passengers: "Mr. Cool" (Amy Jenkins, dir.); "Horny" (Stephen Hopkins); "Grassho...

eXistenZ
1999
as Ted Pikul
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been dam...
The Talented Mr. Ripley: Making the Soundtrack
1999
as Self
Making the soundtrack of the hit film.

Immortality
1998
as Steven Grlscz
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

Final Cut
1998
as Jude
A group of friends gather for a wake, and are shown a video shot by Jude and starring them before he dies. Things go rapidly downhill.

Music from Another Room
1998
as Danny Kowalski
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl h...

Bent
1997
as Stormtrooper
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentrati...

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
1997
as Billy Carl Hanson
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

Gattaca
1997
as Jerome Eugene Morrow
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member ...

Wilde
1997
as Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment a...

I Love You, I Love You Not
1996
as Ethan / SS Officer
A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives.

Shopping
1994
as Billy
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars ar...

The Crane
1993
as Young Man
An enigmatic fragment of a bigger story, showing events leading up to a pivotal moment in the life of a strange, troubled young man. After losing his ...

The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
as Mayor's Stableboy
An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.
Untitled Jude Law x Justin Kuritzkes Movie
N/A
Said to be a Mike Nichols-inspired film. Plot under wraps.

The Hat
N/A
A young man wanders into the middle of a barren field, and just as he’s enjoying the peace of it all, a mystery assailant comes running out of the tre...

Sherlock Holmes 3
N/A
as Dr. John Watson
The plot is unknown at this time.