Russell Crowe
Actor, director
Birth date: April 7, 1964
Place: Wellington (New Zealand)
Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe is considered one of the finest actors of his generation. Originally from New Zealand, he started making waves in the Australian film industry with his performance in the controversial film Romper Stomper, for which he became critically acclaimed around the world. He has received three consecutive Academy Award® Best Actor nominations for his performances in The Insider (1999), Gladiator (2000) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), taking home the Oscar® for his performance in Gladiator.
In addition to winning the Best Actor Oscar® for his performance as ‘Maximus,’ the Roman general-turned-gladiator, in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, he earned Best Actor honors from several critics organizations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and Best Actor nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA.
In Ron Howard’s A Beautiful Mind, Crowe’s masterful portrayal of Nobel Prize-winning John Forbes Nash, Jr. earned him his third Academy Award® nomination and garnered him Best Actor awards from the Golden Globes®, Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and other critics groups.
He received his first Academy Award® nomination for his work in Michael Mann’s nonfiction drama, The Insider, as tobacco company whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand. He also earned Best Actor awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Broadcast Film Critics Association, National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, and Best Actor nominations for a Golden Globe® Award, a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Crowe has recently starred as ‘Robin Longstride’ in Ridley Scott’s epic action-adventure Robin Hood, and over the past few years has starred in Universal’s thriller State of Play, along with Edward Norton, Rachel McAdams, and Ben Affleck; Ridley Scott’s drama Body of Liesfor Warner Bros, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio; Lionsgate’s 3:10 to Yuma opposite Christian Bale; and again with director Ridley Scott for Universal’s American Gangsterwith Denzel Washington.
Before his award-winning acclaim, Crowe made his mark on Hollywood in Curtis Hanson’s crime drama L.A. Confidential as vice cop ‘Bud White.’ His other film credits include Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man where he starred as ‘Jim Braddock’; A Good Year, directed by Ridley Scott and based on the book by Peter Mayle; Jay Roach’s Mystery, Alaska; Taylor Hackford’s Proof of Life; and Virtuosity opposite Denzel Washington. He made his American film debut in the Western The Quick and the Dead, with Gene Hackman and Sharon Stone. Additional credits include Heaven’s Burning; Breaking Up; Rough Magic; The Sum of Us; For the Moment; Love in Limbo; The Silver Brumby, based on the classic Australian children’s novel; The Efficiency Expert; and Prisoners of the Sun.
Born in New Zealand, Crowe was raised in Australia where he has also been honored for his work on the screen. He was recognized for three consecutive years by the Australian Film Institute (AFI) - nominated for Best Actor for The Crossing (1991), won the Best Supporting Actor award for Proof (1992) and received Best Actor awards from the AFI and the Australian Film Critics for his performance in Romper Stomper (1992). In 1993, the Seattle International Film Festival named Crowe Best Actor for his work in both Romper Stomper and Hammers Over the Anvil.
Crowe currently resides in Australia.
Filmography
2010 The Next Three Days - Paul Haggis
2010 Robin Hood - Ridley Scott
2009 Nottingham de Ridley Scott
2009 State of Play - Kevin Macdonald
2008 Body of Lies - Ridley Scott
2008 Tenderness - John Polson
2008 American Gangster - Ridley Scott
2008 3:10 to Yuma - James Mangold
2006 A Good Year - Ridley Scott
2006 Eucalyptus
- Jocelyn Moorhouse
2005 Cin - rella Man
- Ron Howard
2003 Master and Comman - r: The Far Si - of the World
- Peter Weir
2002 A beautiful mind
- Ron Howard
2000 Proof of Life
- Taylor Hackford
2000 Gladiator
- Ridley Scott
1999 Révelation
- Michael Mann
1999 Mystery, Alaska
1997 Bréaking up
- Robert Greenwald
1997 Heaven's burning - Craig Lahiff avec
1997 L.A. Confi - ntial
(Los Angeles Al Desnudo)
- Curtis Hanson
1996
No Way Back - Frank Cappello
1995 Rough Magic - Clare Peploe
1995 Virtuosity
(Sid 6.7 La Maquina Asesina)
- Brett Leonard
1994 For the moment - Aaron Kim Johnston
1994 The Quick and the Dead
- Sam Raimi
1994 The Sum of us - Geoff Burton
1993 Love in Limbo - David Elfick
1993 The Silver Brumby - John Tatoulis
1992 Romper Stomper - Geoffrey Wright
1991 Hammers over the anvil
- Ann Turner
1991 Spotswood - Mark Joffe
The Crossing - George Ogilvie
1991 Prisoners of the Sun - Stephen
Wallace
1991 Proof
- Jocelyn Moorhouse
1990 The Crossing
- George Ogilvie
1990. Prisoners of the
Sun
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