Russell Crowe : Biography
Born April 7, 1964, in Wellington, New Zealand. His family moved to Sydney,
Australia, when Crowe was four years old. He spent a good deal of time
on the sets of various film and television productions, where his parents
worked as caterers; at age six, Crowe was cast as an orphan in the TV
series Spyforce, the first of his many small parts as a child actor. His
family returned to New Zealand in 1978, and Crowe began performing as
a rock singer, billing himself as Rus le Roc and recording the prophetically
titled 1980 single “I Want to Be Like Marlon Brando.” During this period,
he and a friend formed Roman Antix, which later evolved into 30 Odd Foot
of Grunts, a rock band for which Crowe still sings, plays guitar, and
writes lyrics.
Russell Crowe : Career
in the early 1980s to pursue his acting career, winning a role in a production
of the musical Grease in 1983. From 1986 to 1988, Crowe starred in a touring
production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. A role in the stage musical
Blood Brothers in 1989 led to his first feature film, Blood Oath (1990,
released in the U.S. as Prisoners of the Sun). His other early films included
The Crossing (1990), which marked his first leading role, and The Efficiency
Expert (1991, released in the U.S. as Spotswood), with Anthony Hopkins
and Toni Collette. In 2001, Crowe starred in A Beautiful Mind, an acclaimed
biopic about the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. The film,
directed by Ron Howard, costarred Ed Harris and Jennifer Connelly. For
the third year in a row, Crowe's bravura performance earned him an Academy
Award nomination for Best Actor. He and Howard will team up again for
the 1930s boxing drama Cinderella Man, about Jim Braddock, the real-life
boxer who defeated heavyweight champ Max Baer in a 15-round bout.
Russell Crowe : Films
Cinderella
Man (2005), Master and Commander (2003), Texas (2002), A Beautiful Mind
(2001), Proof of Life (2000), Gladiator (2000), The Insider (1999), Mystery,
Alaska (1999) , Breaking Up (1997), Heaven's Burning (1997), L.A. Confidential
(1997), Rough Magic (1995), Virtuosity (1995), No Way Back (1996), The
Quick and the Dead (1994), The Sum of Us (1994), Hammers Over the Anvil
(1994), The Silver Brumby (1993), Love in Limbo (1993), For the Moment
(1993), Romper Stomper (1992), Spotswood (1992), Proof (1991), The Crossing
(1990), Prisoners of the Sun (1990)
