Russell Ira Crowe (innate April 7, 1964) is an Oscar-winning film actor born in Wellington, New Zealand of Welsh, Norwegian and 1/16th Maori extraction. 2 of his cousin-german, Martin and Jeff Crowe are former Just released Zealand cricket captains.

Once he was 4 years old, his personal moved to Australia where his parents pursued a career within filmset catering. He attended Sydney Boys High School. After he was 14, a personal draw back to Future Zealand, in which he attend a Auckland Grammar School. He did non complete lycee, allowing early to help his personal financially.

When initial profits around Australia, he began acting around U.s. films in the Nineties; a troika-period Oscar candidate, he won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2001 for Gladiator, and he was as well nominated for the Better Actor award for The Insider and A Beautiful Mind.

In April 7, 2003 (his 39th birthday), Crowe married his long-time love, Australian singer & actress Danielle Spencer. In December 21, 2003, their boy Charles Spencer Crowe was natural. He antecedently dated a U.s. filmstar Meg Ryan, after it met when filming Proof of Life together.

He occurs as major supporter of the South Sydney Rabbitohs rugby league team.

In March 9, 2005, Crowe revealed to ''GQ'' magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had approached him before a 73rd Academy Awards on March 25, 2001 and told him that the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him. Crowe told a magazine that it was a 1st period he experienced ever heard of al-Qaeda (a September 11 attacks took place later that month) & wwhen quoted as expression: "You get this late-night call from the FBI when you arrive in Los Angeles, and they're, like, absolutely full-on. 'We’ve got to talk to you now before you do anything. We have to have a discussion with you, Mr. Crowe.'" Crowe recalled that "it was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers...it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan." Crowe was guarded by Secret Service agents for the next few months, two when shooting films & at award ceremonies (Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was promoting Proof of Life in London in February 2001). Crowe said that he "never fully understood what the fuck was going on." A FBI confirmed Crowe's statement (which is uncharacteristic the professional therein it normally doesn't comment to the media).

Temperament

Crowe has the reputation for bad temper & the predeliction for brawling. This was parodied inside an episode of the cartoon South Park.

He won a Better Actor in the 2002 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards for his portrayal of John Nash in A Beautiful Mind. When you took the presentation for his award, he planned to scroll through a piece of poetry known as Holiness by Patrick Kavanagh but was cut short to fit in the BBC's tape-delayed broadcast. At a awards when person, he accosted producer Malcolm Gerrie. [http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,9606,00.html|1] Crowe late apologised for his actions, however numbers of suppose this incident was responsible depriving Crowe of the Oscar for Better Actor that month. The Beautiful Mind won 4 of a 5 awards for which it was nominated, by having the single & blatant exception existence Crowe's nomination for Better Actor.

Inside March 2002, musician Moby alleged that Crowe had shoved him against the wall of the potty within a Sydney nighttime club & incorrectly known as him "American," however it was late revealed that Crowe was actually around Ecuador when the incident was alleged to develop taken place.

the resulting year, the court heard charges against many men world health organization were trying to sell the security tape featuring Crowe on the nighttime of November 18, 1999 existence included around a scrimmage, & around the future engaging in an argument by having two or three.

In the early morning of June 6, 2005, Crowe was arrested and charged by owning 2nd degree assault by New York Police, in connection by having an incident at a Mercer Hotel, SoHo, New York, in which the broken telephone was thrown at the hotel front desk, striking the hotel employee. He was farther charged by having for-degree criminal possession of the weapon we.e. a telephone.

Crowe freed the statement saying he was jet-lagged, missing his personal around Australithe & became defeated fallowing with repeated difficulties making a phone call for to his married woman around Australia [http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15532752-2,00.html]. A concierge, Nestor "Josh" Estradthe, was treated for a facial laceratiin on his upper correct cheek. The Crowe voice has said the phone was thrown at the wall however there are no human was assaulted. Crowe has publicly apologized to Estradthe, saying a incident was a "low point in his life."

The court date is pending. His lawyer is Gerald Lefcourt. Inside mid-August 2005, the Daily Mail reported that Crowe settled out of court by using Estrada, agreeing to pay him $10.8 million inside wrongs; a paper likewise reported that a NYPD might non pursue criminal charges against Crowe. Crowe's publicizer late acknowledged that the treat experienced been reached, saying that "Both sides expressed satisfaction at the resolution." Australian tabloids claims that trueness figure is all about $100,000.

Music Career
Crowe is as well the singer & composer. He was a lead singer & guitar player of an Australian public house rock group, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts, which formed in 1992. A band experienced observed neither critical or even popular profits however managed to release triplet albums: 1998's Gaslight, 2001's Bastard Life or Clarity & 2003's More Shipway of Speaking. It has at present disbanded.

Crowe has continued using his music, collaborating using Alan Doyle of the Canadian band, Great Big Sea, in early 2005. The fresh individual, Raewyn, was freed in April 19, 2005. last members of his previous band keep close at hand participate in the newly task. An album entitled Our Hand, The Heart has been freed for download in iTunes and includes a tribute song to the late actor, Richard Harris, who became the close friend once them were making Gladiator.

Filmography
Neighbours (TV Show) (1987) Prisoners of the Sun (1990) The Crossing (1990) Hammers Over the Anvil (1991) Proof (1991) The Efficiency Expert (1992) Romper Stomper (1992) For the Moment (1993) Love in Limbo (1993) The Silver Stallion: King of the Wild Brumbies (1993) The Sum of Us (1994) The Quick and the Dead (1995) No Way Back (1995) Virtuosity (1995) Rough Magic (1995) L.A. Confidential (1997) Heaven's Burning (1997) Breaking Up (1997) Mystery, Alaska (1999) The Insider (1999) Gladiator (2000) Proof of Life (2000) A Beautiful Mind (2001) Texas (2002) (documentary) (too director & producer) 60 Odd Hours in Italy (2002) (short subject) (also director) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) Cinderella Man'' (2005)