Hugh Jackman celebrates his beloved dog Allegra as he marks National Puppy Day

Hollywood star Hugh Jackman is known for his love of his two dogs, Dali and Allegra. 

And on Tuesday, the 52-year-old expressed his love for his beloved pets once again for National Puppy Day. 

Taking to Instagram, Hugh shared a portrait photo of himself holding dog Allegra in a throwback photo. 

Hugh was seen staring at the camera as he held onto the puppy.    

‘In honor of #nationalpuppyday, I feel it only right to revisit the first day #Allegra joined our family,’ he wrote. 

Allegra is a poodle and terrier mix. While Dali, named after artist Salvador Dali, is a French bulldog.   

Hugh is based in New York City with his wife, actress and adoption activist Deborra-Lee Furness.  

The couple met on the set of the Australian drama Correlli in 1995 and married in 1996.

After moving to the US in the early 2000s they adopted two children – son Oscar, now 20, and daughter Ava, now 15.

Deborra-Lee has long been a critic of Australia’s ‘anti-adoption culture’, telling The Daily Telegraph last year that she and Hugh had chosen to adopt their children in the United States because it was ‘easier’. 

She explained she was ‘horrified’ and ‘appalled’ by Australian bureaucracy, and went through the U.S. system instead after moving stateside.  

‘We were not famous over there, we jumped through every hoop and did it all by the books, and it was so much easier,’ she said. 

Meanwhile, musical theater star Hugh was meant to make his return to Broadway last year in a revival of The Music Man.

But the COVID-19 lockdowns shut down the New York’s entire theater scene.

He will star alongside fellow Tony winner Sutton Foster in the production, which is now slated to open February 2022.