Russell Crowe Profile, Age, Height, Family, Net Worth, Biography & More

Russell Ira Crowe was born April 7, 1964, known as Russell Crowe is an actor, director, musician and singer. He was born in New Zealand, spent 10 years of his childhood in Australia and settled there permanently at age 21. He gained international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the epic historical film Gladiator (2000), for which he won an Academy Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, an Empire Award and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actor, plus 10 other nominations in the same category.

Crowe’s other award-winning performances include tobacco company whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider (1999) and John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001).

Crowe went on to star in the musical drama Les Misérables (2012), as Jor-El in the superhero epic Man of Steel (2013), the biblical fantasy drama Noah (2014) and the action comedy The Nice Guys (2016). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred.

Crowe has won several accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA and an Academy Award on three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000 and 2001). He has been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) South Sydney Rabbitohs team since 2006.

In 1989, Crowe met Australian singer Danielle Spencer while working on the movie The Crossing and the two began an intermittent relationship. In 2001, Crowe and Spencer reconciled and they married two years later in April 2003. The couple have two sons named Charles Spencer Crowe (born 2003) and Tennyson Spencer Crowe (born 2006). In October 2012, it was reported that Crowe and Spencer had separated. They divorced in April 2018.

A longtime resident of Nana Glen, Crowe is well known in the community and is a frequent patron of local rugby matches. During the Australian bushfires in 2019 and 2020, he raised over $ 400,000 for the NSW RFS by selling his South Sydney Rabbitohs hat at an online auction.

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