Jude Law has already enjoyed a career that has spanned twenty years, making his debut back in 1987, finding success on both sides of the pond.
This week he is back on the big screen with his new movie Repo Men, which sees him team up with Oscar winner Forest Whitaker.
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
So to celebrate the release of the movie we take a look at some of Law's best performances on the big screen over the years.
The Talented Mr Ripley
Despite having juggled TV and movie roles prior to The talented Mr Ripley it was the 1999 movie that was the breakthrough for Law.
The movie was an adaptation of the 1955 novel by Patricia Highsmith and also starred Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cate Blanchett.
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party.
When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home.
In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harbouring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury.
Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
The movie was met well by the critics upon release and Jude Law went on to be nominated for a best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance.
Despite losing out to Michael Caine he did pick up the Bafta and was also nominated for a Golden Globe.
Road To Perdition
2002 brought my personal favourite performance from Jude Law in Sam Mendes' Road To Perdition as the very creepy Harlen Maguire.
The movie saw him star alongside Tom Hanks and Paul Newman and was based on the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins.
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 he has done Mike Sullivan finds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
Road To Perdition is the best gangster movie made in recent years and was met well by the critics upon release.
However the movie struggled at the box office and didn't get the award recognition that it deserved, but it is a classic in the gangster genre and really shouldn't be missed.
Cold Mountain
Law seems to have a thing for book adaptations as Cold Mountain was yet another as Anthony Minghella brought Charles Frazier's novel to the big screen back in 2003.
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier (Law) embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Kidman).
Minghella once again brought to the big screen a very intense drama as he depicted two very different, yet vivid, perspectives of the Civil War.
Once again Law had another movie that was met well by the critics and he went on to bag a second Oscar nod, this time of Best Actor; losing out to Sean Penn.
Closer
In 2004 he joined an all star cast of Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson and Natalie Portman in Closer, directed by Mike Nichols.
Closer questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Law), Alice (Portman), Anna (Roberts), and Larry (Owen). Dan, a British writer of obituaries, and Alice, a young American stripper, meet in the film's opening scene when a London cab runs her down.
Cut to a year later: Dan and Alice are now a couple, but he is suddenly smitten with Anna, a beautiful American photographer.
In an ironic twist of fate, Anna meets Larry, a British doctor, and they are soon a couple, despite Dan's continuing obsession.
Closer is a well layered movie with some great, as well as deeply flawed characters, in a movie that looks at the entanglements of love, passion and obsession.
The central four actors but in outstanding performances as they wander through life and love trying to figure out what it is that they want.
Sherlock Holmes
Jude Law stepped into the role of Watson over Christmas, alongside Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes, in Guy Ritchie's version of the infamous sleuth.
After finally catching serial killer and occult "sorcerer" Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case.
But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again.
Downey Jr lights up the screen with every scene and his partnership with Jude Law is right on the money, it will be great to see this partnership in hopefully future movies.
And it’s this central partnership of Holmes and Watson that really drives the movie as Holmes struggles with the reality that Watson is to be married while Watson finds it difficult to put his loyalties to his old friend aside.
A sequel is in the pipeline so long may this partnership continue.
Repo Men is released 16th April
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