Hugh Jackman says his father died on Australia's Father's Day

(CNN)"X-Men" histrion Hugh Jackman has revealed that his father, Christopher John Jackman, died connected Sunday.

He passed distant connected Australia's Father's Day, Jackman said, telling fans connected Instagram: "Whilst determination is heavy sadness, I americium filled with specified gratitude and love."

"My Dad was, successful a word, extraordinary. He devoted his beingness to his family, his enactment and his faith. I commune helium is present astatine bid with God," helium added.

Christopher John Jackman was an English-born accountant who emigrated to Australia earlier Hugh was born.

He raised the aboriginal histrion and his 4 siblings unsocial aft splitting from his woman erstwhile Hugh was 8 years old, Jackman told The Telegraph successful 2011.