Russell Crowe
Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand actor and film director. His work on screen has earned him various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. Crowe was born in New Zealand, spending ten years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21. He began acting in Australia and had his break-out role in Romper Stomper (1992). He gained international recognition in the late 1990s for his starring roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role of Gladiator (2000), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Further acclaim came for portraying real-life mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe then starred in several films in the 2000s, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), American Gangster (2007), State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe has since appeared in the films Les Misérables (2012), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Aside from acting, Crowe has co-own the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006.
Filmography (45)
Beast
The Get Out
The Weight
UNABOMBER
Nuremberg
Sleeping Dogs
Land of Bad
Kraven the Hunter
Ricky Stanicky
The Pope's Exorcist
Thor: Love and Thunder
Poker Face
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Unhinged
True History of the Kelly Gang
Boy Erased
The Mummy
The Nice Guys
Fathers and Daughters
Noah
Winter's Tale
The Water Diviner
Man of Steel
Broken City
Les Misérables
Robin Hood
The Next Three Days
State of Play
Tenderness
Body of Lies
American Gangster
3:10 to Yuma
A Good Year
Cinderella Man
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
A Beautiful Mind
Gladiator
Proof of Life
The Insider
L.A. Confidential
Virtuosity
The Quick and the Dead
