New Zealand child actor Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe was born on April 7, 1964 in the Wellington suburb of Strathmore Park.

Crowe, a Mori, has a maternal great-great-grandmother named Ngti Porou and therefore identifies with this group. One of his grandparents was Scottish, while his paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was a Welshman from Wrexham.

Its other ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian and Swedish. He is the nephew of cricketer Dave Crowe and the cousin of former New Zealand cricket captains Martin and Jeff Crowe.

When Crowe was four years old, his family moved to Sydney, Australia, where his parents worked as caterers on film sets.

At the age of five or six, Crowe was cast as the opposite number of the series’ star, Jack Thompson, in an episode of the Australian television series Spyforce, produced by his mother’s godfather.

Thompson eventually played the father of Crowe’s character in The Sum of Us in 1994. Crowe also made a brief appearance in The Young Doctors.

He attended Vaucluse Public School and Sydney Boys’ High School in Australia before his family returned to New Zealand in 1978, when he was 14.

Before leaving school at the age of 16 to pursue his acting goals, he completed his secondary education at Mount Roskill Grammar School and Auckland Grammar School alongside his brother Terry and his relatives .

Russell Crowe’s career

In the historical epic Gladiator (2000), Crowe played the role of Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, for which he received ten nominations and four awards, including the Academy Award, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, the Empire Award and the London Film Critics. Circle Award for Best Actor.

Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco company whistleblower, was portrayed by Crowe in the drama “The Insider” (1999), and John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematician, was portrayed by Crowe in the biopic ” A Beautiful Mind” (2001).

He also starred in films such as the drama Romper Stomper (1992), the mystery crime thriller LA Confidential (1997), the epic war film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), and the biographical drama Cinderella boxing with Mann (2005).

He also appeared in films such as the western 3:10 to Yuma (2007), the crime drama American Gangster (2007), the drama thriller State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010).

Crowe went on to star in the musical drama “Les Miserables” (2012), the superhero epic “Man of Steel” (2013), the biblical fantasy drama “Noah” (2014), the action comedy ” The Nice Guys” (2016) and the role of Zeus Panhellenios in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) and Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Kraven The Hunter (2023).

He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also played a supporting role. His numerous awards include a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award and an Academy Award, having received three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000 and 2001).

Since 2006, he has co-owned the South Sydney Rabbitohs franchise of the National Rugby League (NRL).

Does Russell Crowe have children?

Crowe has two sons; Tennyson Spencer Crowe and Charles Spencer Crowe. Tennyson was born on July 7, 2006 in St. Leonards, Australia and Charles was born on December 21, 2003 in Sydney, Australia.