1964-04-07 Wellington, New Zealand
Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an Academy Award-winning actor. He was born in New Zealand, spent ten years of his childhood in Australia, and moved there permanently at age 21. He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the epic historical film Gladiator (2000), for which he won an Academy Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, Empire Award, and London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Leading Actor, along with 10 other nominations in the same category. His other award-winning performances include tobacco firm whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider (1999) and mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in the biopic A Beautiful Mind (2001). He has also starred in films such as the drama Romper Stomper (1992), the mystery-detective thriller L.A. Confidential (1997), the epic war film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), the biographical boxing drama Cinderella Man (2005), the western 3:10 to Yuma (2007), the crime drama American Gangster (2007), the thriller-drama State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010). He later starred as Javert in the musical drama Les Misérables (2012), Jor-El in the superhero epic Man of Steel (2013), Noah in the biblical fantasy drama Noah (2014), Jackson Healy in the action comedy The Nice Guys (2016), Jekyll / Hyde in The Mummy (2017), Marshall Eamons in Boy Erased (2018), the psychotic Man in Unhinged (2018), Jake Foley in Poker Face (2022), Zeus Panhellenios in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), and Nikolai Kravinoff in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) film Kraven the Hunter (2023). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. He has earned various accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, two Golden Globe Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and an Academy Award out of three consecutive nominations (1999, 2000, and 2001). He has been the co-owner of the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006.
Sleeping Dogs | Roy Freeman | 2024-03-21 | |
The Exorcism | Anthony Miller | 2024-05-30 | |
Land of Bad | Reaper | 2024-01-25 | |
Rothko | Mark Rothko | 2024-10-25 | |
Kraven the Hunter | Nikolai Kravinoff | 2024-12-11 | |
Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration | 2024-11-08 | ||
The Pope's Exorcist | Father Gabriele Amorth | 2023-04-05 | |
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Thor: Love and Thunder | Self - Zeus (archive footage) | 2022-09-08 | |
The Greatest Beer Run Ever | Arthur Coates | 2022-09-23 | |
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher | Jack Slack | 2022-06-30 | |
The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | 2022-08-31 | |
Thor: Love and Thunder | Zeus | 2022-07-06 | |
Poker Face | Jake Foley | 2022-11-16 | |
Zack Snyder's Justice League | Jor-El (voice) | 2021-03-18 | |
Unhinged | Man (Tom Cooper) | 2020-07-16 | |
Gladiateur, glaive et fantasmes | Self (archive footage) | 2019-04-14 | |
True History of the Kelly Gang | Harry Power | 2019-11-23 | |
Boy Erased | Marshall Eamons | 2018-09-24 | |
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped | Self (archive footage) | 2018-02-17 | |
Turtle Odyssey | Narrator (voice) | 2018-06-30 | |
War Machine | Bob White | 2017-05-26 | |
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017-03-09 | |
The Mummy | Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde | 2017-06-06 | |
The Last Laugh | Self | 2016-04-18 | |
The Nice Guys | Jackson Healy | 2016-05-15 | |
Fathers and Daughters | Jake Davis | 2015-10-01 | |
Winter's Tale | Pearly Soames | 2014-02-13 | |
The Water Diviner | Joshua Connor | 2014-12-25 | |
Noah | Noah | 2014-03-07 | |
Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story | Self | 2013-04-01 | |
Man of Steel | Jor-El | 2013-06-12 | |
Broken City | Nicholas Hostetler | 2013-01-18 | |
The Man with the Iron Fists | Jack Knife | 2012-11-02 | |
La Classe américaine | Self | 2012-10-05 | |
Les Misérables | Javert | 2012-12-18 | |
Watch the Throne | Self | 2011-09-25 | |
The Real Robin Hood | Self | 2010-05-11 | |
Robin Hood | Robin Longstride | 2010-05-12 | |
The Next Three Days | John Brennan | 2010-11-18 | |
Tenderness | Detective Cristofuoro | 2009-01-15 | |
State of Play | Cal McAffrey | 2009-04-17 | |
Sunlight and Shadow: The Visual Style of 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | 2008-09-23 | |
Body of Lies | Ed Hoffman | 2008-10-09 | |
Whatever You Desire: Making 'L.A. Confidential' | Self | 2008-09-23 | |
American Gangster | Richie Roberts | 2007-11-02 | |
Bra Boys | Narrator (voice) | 2007-03-07 | |
3:10 to Yuma | Ben Wade | 2007-09-06 | |
A Good Year | Max Skinner | 2006-09-09 | |
Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World | Self | 2006-02-10 | |
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self | 2005-03-01 | |
Cinderella Man | Jim Braddock | 2005-06-02 | |
Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator' | Self | 2005-06-07 | |
The Hundred Days | Self | 2004-04-20 | |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Captain Jack Aubrey | 2003-11-14 | |
Inside a Beautiful Mind | Self | 2002-03-03 | |
Texas | Self | 2002-01-29 | |
A Beautiful Mind | John Nash | 2001-12-14 | |
Gladiator | Maximus Meridius | 2000-05-04 | |
Proof of Life | Terry Thorne | 2000-12-08 | |
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport | Self | 2000-11-21 | |
Mystery, Alaska | John Biebe | 1999-10-01 | |
The Insider | Jeffrey Wigand | 1999-10-28 | |
Breaking Up | Steve | 1997-10-17 | |
L.A. Confidential | Wendell 'Bud' White | 1997-09-19 | |
Heaven's Burning | Colin | 1997-11-06 | |
Rough Magic | Alex Ross | 1995-09-07 | |
No Way Back | Zack Grant | 1995-05-12 | |
The Quick and the Dead | Cort | 1995-02-09 | |
Virtuosity | Sid 6.7 | 1995-08-04 | |
Hammers Over the Anvil | East Driscoll | 1994-07-22 | |
The Sum of Us | Jeff Mitchell | 1994-07-28 | |
Love In Limbo | Arthur Baskin | 1993-05-20 | |
The Silver Brumby | The Man | 1993-09-16 | |
For the Moment | Lachlan | 1993-10-01 | |
Romper Stomper | Hando | 1992-03-05 | |
Spotswood | Kim Barry | 1992-01-23 | |
Proof | Andy | 1991-08-15 | |
Blood Oath | Lt. Corbett | 1990-07-26 | |
The Crossing | Johnny | 1990-10-18 | |
A Taste for Blood | |||
The Pope's Exorcist 2 | Father Gabriel Amorth | ||
Nuremberg | Hermann Göring | ||
American Son | |||
Last Breath | Self |