Russell Crowe

At 60 years old, Russell Crowe has this physical status:

Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film director, and singer.

Despite being a New Zealander, he has spent the bulk of his life in Australia.

Crowe's role as the Roman General Maximus Meridius in the classic film Gladiator (1999), directed by Ridley Scott, earned an Academy Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Circle Award, and a London Film Critics Circle Award for best actor among ten other nominees in the same category.

Crowe's other award-winning roles include portrayals of tobacco company whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand (1999), and John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001). Romper Stomper (1992), Los Angeles, was Crowe's other films. Master and Commander, 1997, The Far Side of the World (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2006), Arthur Leo Gore (2007), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014), and The Nice Guys (2016).

Crowe made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner in 2015, in which he also appeared.

Crowe's work has earned him many accolades over his career, including one on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and one Academy Award out of three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000, and 2001).

Crowe has also been co-owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs, who have been part of the National Rugby League (NRL) team since 2006.

Early life

Crowe was born in Strathmore Park, Wellington, on April 7, 1964, the son of film set caterers Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe. His father owned a hotel for many years. Stan Wemyss, his maternal grandfather, was granted an MBE for filming a video of World War II as a member of New Zealand's Film Unit. Crowe is Mori, and he knows Ngti Porou through one of his maternal great-grandmothers. John Doubleday Crowe, his paternal grandfather, was from Wrexham, while another of his grandparents was Scottish. English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Norwegian, and Swedish are among his ancestry. He is the uncle of cricketer Dave Crowe and the cousin of former New Zealand national cricket captain Martin and Jeff Crowe.

Crowe's family came from Australia and settled in Sydney, where his parents concentrated on film set catering as a child. Crowe, his mother's godfather, was the creator of the Australian television show Spyforce, and he was recruited for a line of dialogue in one episode of the series at age five or six, opposite series star Jack Thompson. In 1994, Thompson would play the father of Crowe's character in The Sum of Us. Crowe appeared in The Young Doctors for a brief period of time. He was educated at Vaucluse Public School and Sydney Boys High School in Australia before his family immigrated to New Zealand in 1978, when he was 14 years old. He continued his secondary education at Auckland Grammar School, with his cousins and brother Terry, and Mount Roskill Grammar School before leaving school at the age of 16 to pursue his acting aspirations.

Personal life

Crowe first met Australian singer Danielle Spencer while making the film The Crossing in 1989, and the pair began a new, off-again, friendship. When working on their film Proof of Life, he became romantically linked with American actress Meg Ryan. Crowe and Spencer reconciled in 2001, and they married two years later in April 2003. Crowe's cattle property in Nana Glen, New South Wales, was the site of the wedding, which took place on Crowe's 39th birthday. Charles Spencer Crowe (born 21 December 2003) and Tennyson Spencer Crowe (born 7 July 2006) are the couple's two sons. Crowe and Spencer had been reported missing in October 2012, according to a tweeter. In April 2018, they divorced.

Nana Glen, Crowe's long-serving resident is well-known in the community and is a regular attender of the local rugby competitions. He raised over $400,000 for the NSW RFS between the two Australian bushfires in 2019 and 2020 by selling his South Sydney Rabbitohs hat in an online auction.

Crowe told GQ magazine that FBI agents had contacted him before the 73rd Academy Awards and told him that the al-Qaeda group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him on March 9, 2005. "It was something to do with some data found by a French policewoman, I think, in Libya or Algiers, it was about removing iconographic Americans from the picture as a sort of cultural destabilization scheme," he said.

Crowe appeared in a series of limited-edition postage stamps titled "Legends of the Screen," starring Australian actors at the start of 2009. Crowe, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, and Nicole Kidman appear in the film twice, once as themselves and once as an Academy Award-nominated character. Crowe is the only non-Australian to appear in the stamps.

Crowe, who started smoking when he was ten years old in June 2010, announced his resignation for the sake of his two sons. He told David Letterman that he smoked more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years and that he had "fallen off the wagon" the night before the interview and smoked heavily.

Crowe has voted in favour of the Australian Labour Party (ALP). Julia Gillard, the former Prime Minister of Australia, was endorsed by him in June 2013 and narrated an advertisement for the Labor Party's election campaign in May 2022. Crowe has been a vocal critic of Australia's immigration detention facilities, describing them as "a nation's shame" and "fucking disgraceful." Crowe volunteered to repaint refugees detained in Manus Island's offshore detention facility in November 2017.

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Acting career

Crowe began his performing career as a musician in the early 1980s under the stage name "Russ Le Roq," according to his mentor Tom Sharplin. "I Just Want To Be Like Marlon Brando," "Pier 13," and "Shattered Glass," none of which charted. In 1984, he operated "The Venue," an Auckland music venue. When he was 18, he appeared in A Very Special Person..., a marketing video for Avondale University's theology/ministry program, a Seventh-day Adventist tertiary education provider in New South Wales, Australia.

Crowe left New Zealand and returned to Australia at the age of 21, aiming to enroll in the National Institute of Dramatic Art. "I was doing in a theatre performance" and spoke with a man who was then NIDA's technical support manager, he said. When I asked him what he thought about me after three years at NIDA, he said no. It'd be a waste of time, my uncle told me. "You already do the things you need to hear, and you've been doing it for the majority of your life," the narrator said. In a New Zealand version of The Rocky Horror Show, he appeared in his first professional role by director Daniel Abineri from 1986 to 1988. Eddie/Dr Scott was the role of Eddie/Dr Scott. He performed again in a new Australian production of the festival, which also included tours of New Zealand. Crowe spent six months on busking in 1987 when he was unable to find any other jobs. Crowe played Mickey in 1988 Australia's Blood Brothers. In the 1989 film Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom, Daniel Abineri cast him again.

Crowe was portrayed by Faith Martin in his first film, The Crossing (1990), a small-town love triangle directed by George Ogilvie, after appearing in Neighbours and Living with the Law. Crowe was hired by a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, in 1990's Blood Oath (aka Prisoners of the Sun), which was released a month before The Crossing, but it was later shot. Crowe appeared in the first episode of the second season of Police Rescue in 1992. Crowe appeared in Romper Stomper, an Australian film that followed the exploits and demise of a minor skinhead group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne, directed by Geoffrey Wright and co-starring Jacqueline McKenzie. Crowe received an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Actor, a follow-up to his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991. Crowe had applied for Australian citizenship in 2006 and again in 2013, but it was refused because he did not meet the residency requirements. However, Crowe's Immigration Department said it had no record of any such request.

Crowe first appeared in For the Time in 1993, before focusing on American films after initial success in Australia. He co-starred with Denzel Washington in Virtuosity (the pair later appeared together in American Gangster) and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995. He went on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2000 for Gladiator. In 2001, Crowe was given the (Australian) Centenary Medal for "service to Australian society and Australian film production."

Crowe's three best actor Oscar nominations for The Insider, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind have all been given. Crowe received the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind at the 2002 BAFTA awards ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild awards for the same role. Despite being nominated for an Academy Award, Denzel Washington was disqualified. Both three films were also nominated for Best Picture, and Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind received the distinction. Crowe was the first actor to lead a back-to-back Best Picture winners since Walter Pidgeon (who appeared in How Green Was My Valley and Mrs. Miniver).

He appeared in two other best picture nominees, Los Angeles, during the six-year period from 1997 to 2003. The Far Side of the World is a mythical and enslaved. In 2005, he teamed with Ron Howard of A Beautiful Mind for the biographical boxing film Cinderella Man. In 2006, he re-teamed with Gladiator producer Ridley Scott for A Good Year, the first of two consecutive collaborations (the second being American Gangster co-starring Denzel Washington, who was released in late 2007. Despite the fact that the light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not widely accepted, Crowe seemed delighted with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thinks it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.

Crowe's box office has declined in recent years. Russell Crowe (RCROW), a stock market (HSX) company that was established in 1998, has maintained constant accretion. Crowe appeared in Robin Hood, a film based on the Robin Hood legend directed by Ridley Scott and released on May 14th, 2010. Crowe appeared in the 2010 Paul Haggis film The Next Three Days, a French film pour Elle's 2008 adaptation.

Crowe played Jackknife in The Man of the Iron Fists, opposite RZA, after a year off acting. In the Christopher Nolan-produced film Man of Steel, he played Javert in Les Misérables' musical film (2012) and portrayed Superman's biological father, Jor-El. In 2014, he appeared as a gangster in Mark Helprin's 1983 film Winter's Tale and as the title character in Darren Aronofsky's film Noah. Crowe made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, a historical drama film in which he also appeared in with Jacqueline McKenzie, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney. The film was shot in 1919 and was produced by Troy Lum, Andrew Mason, and Keith Rodger. Crowe appeared in The Mummy (2017) as a comedian. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Thor: Love and Thunder, which was released on July 8-2022, Crowe portrayed Zeus. He portrays Fr. Brutus, the famous exorcist Fr. Gabriele Amorth in The Exorcist Exorcist (1923).

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