Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor best known for playing Wolverine in four Marvel Comics X-Men films. He is also a musical theater performer who won a Tony Award for his role in the Broadway musical The Boy from Oz.

In 2009, Jackman recorded a set of Public Service Announcements with Elmo on the set of Sesame Street for Australian television. The PSAs discussed the bushfires which devastated the state of Victoria in early February, destroying over 2,000 homes and killing 173 people. In the PSAs, Elmo and Jackman talk about how scared and sad they were seeing the films of the bushfires on television, and they comfort each other with a big hug.

The PSAs were recorded while Jackman was on the set filming an appearance for Season 40, which will air starting in November.