Russell Crowe
Movie Actor — born 1964
Russell Crowe is a New Zealand born film actor, producer and musician based in Australia and the U.
Russell Crowe is a New Zealand-born Australian actor, director, and musician whose four-decade career has produced multiple defining American film roles — particularly his 2001 Best Actor Academy Award win for Ridley Scott's Gladiator. He was born Russell Ira Crowe on April 7, 1964, in Wellington, New Zealand, into an Australian-emigrant family. His father John Alexander Crowe was a New Zealand-Australian hotel manager and pub owner, and his mother Jocelyn Yvonne Wemyss was a homemaker. The 1968 family relocation to Sydney, Australia (when Russell was four) launched his early-career path.
His 1980 first Australian TV appearance at age 16 — in the Australian TV soap opera The Young Doctors — and his subsequent 1980s Australian TV-and-music engagements (including his rock band Roman Antix) launched his early-career Australian show-business public profile.
His 1992 lead role as neo-Nazi skinhead Hando in Geoffrey Wright's Romper Stomper — for which he won the 1992 AACTA Award for Best Actor — launched his 1990s Australian-and-American film public profile. His 1997 American film breakthrough came in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential (in which he played LAPD detective Bud White, opposite Kevin Spacey, Guy Pearce, and Kim Basinger) — which received nine Academy Award nominations and won two.
His 2000 lead role as Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott's Gladiator — released May 5, 2000 — won him the 2001 Best Actor Academy Award. The 2000 film grossed $460 million worldwide on a $103 million production budget and won the 2001 Best Picture Academy Award. His subsequent film career has produced multiple defining American films — particularly Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001, in which he played mathematician John Nash — earning him his second consecutive Best Actor Academy Award nomination), Ron Howard's Cinderella Man (2005), James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma (2007), Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007, opposite Denzel Washington), Tom Hooper's Les Misérables (2012, in which he played Inspector Javert), Darren Aronofsky's Noah (2014, in which he played Noah), and Andrew Dominik's True History of the Kelly Gang (2019). He married Australian singer-songwriter Danielle Spencer in 2003 (separated 2012, divorced 2018), and the couple has two sons.
His name Russell derives from the Old French roussel meaning "little red one" or "red-haired." Russell has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names since 1880.
About the name Russell
Gender: Male · Origin: English
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