Biography
Russell Ira Crowe is a New Zealand actor. He was born on 7 April 1964 in Wellington and spent part of his childhood in Australia, where he began his acting career.
Crowe gained international recognition in the late 1990s with roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Maximus in Gladiator (2000) and received further acclaim for playing John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001). Other notable films include Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), American Gangster (2007) and Robin Hood (2010).
In later years Crowe has appeared in Les Misérables (2012), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). He made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner (2014), in which he also starred. He played Nikolai Kravinoff in Kraven the Hunter (2024).
