Hugh Jackman Rescues Swimmers from Strong Riptide on Sydney Beach

By: Mar. 28, 2016
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We knew he played a "superhero" on the big screen, but now Tony-winning actor Hugh Jackman proves he has what it takes to earn the title in real life. CNN reports that the Australian actor helped several swimmers, who were caught in a strong riptide at Sydney's Bondi Beach, to safety.

In a video shared by Australia's Nine News, the 47-year-old actor is seen helping a man and a young girl move away from a powerful rip. He also helps a boy, reported to be his 15-year-old son Oscar, from the strong tides. The WOLVERINE star goes on to gesture to other swimmers further out in the water to move clear of the dangerous currents. Check out video and pics below!

Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011. Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the Tony Awards Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, opposite Daniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

Additional theater: Carousel at Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London (Olivier nomination), Sunset Boulevard (MO Award, Australia's Tony Award) and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (MO Award nomination). Jackman made his first major U.S. film appearance as Wolverine in the first installment of the X-Men series, a role he reprised in the enormously successfulX2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and in The Wolverine in 2013. Jackman reunited with the X-men team for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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