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Russell Crowe

Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is an 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

2026
The Weight

as Warden Clancy

Movie
2025
Nuremberg

as Hermann Göring

Movie
2024
Kraven the Hunter

as Nikolai Kravinoff

Movie
2024
Land of Bad

as Reaper

Movie
2023
The Pope's Exorcist

as Father Gabriele Amorth

Movie
2022
Thor: Love and Thunder

as Zeus

Movie
2017
The Mummy

as Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde

Movie
2016
The Nice Guys

as Jackson Healy

Movie
2013
Man of Steel

as Jor-El

Movie
2012
Les Misérables

as Javert

Movie
2010
The Next Three Days

as John Brennan

Movie
2007
American Gangster

as Richie Roberts

Movie
2007
3:10 to Yuma

as Ben Wade

Movie
2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

as Captain Jack Aubrey

Movie
2001
A Beautiful Mind

as John Nash

Movie
2000
Gladiator

as Maximus

Movie
1999
Mystery, Alaska

as John Biebe

Movie
1997
Breaking Up

as Steve

Movie
1997
L.A. Confidential

as Wendell 'Bud' White

Movie
1995
The Quick and the Dead

as Cort

Movie