Actor Russell Crowe and singer

Personal
Russell Ira Crowe is from New Zealand and was born on April 7, 1964. As a small child he moved with his parents to Sydney and grew up in the film world. His parents were responsible for catering to the various film box sets and have been with him so the spoon.

Russell Crowe is married to actress and singer Danielle Spencer and they have 2 sons.

Careers
Russell began his career in some sections of the soap Neighbors and then he made some films in Australia. It took until 1995 before it - to indicate to actress Sharon Stone - Hollywood left direction. He began his career in The Quick and the Dead for about two years later to break really big in LA Confidential. Again two years later he received his first Oscar nomination for his role in The Insider and it took until 2001 before an Oscar nomination actually managed to redeem. This was for his role in Gladiator. Ridley Scott made the film work and well received in the cinema (the film opened in America alone over 180 million U.S. dollars on).

Besides the great work he also played in very different types of roles such as A Beautiful Mind, directed by Ron Howard. He puts this down a schizophrenic mathematician perfect. Again he was nominated for an Oscar. The diversity of his roles is great, because in 2003 he was the sailor epic Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World and two years later, the boxing film Cinderella Man.
In 2007 he made a western, a genre that barely made was years. 3:10 to Yuma was a remake of the 1957 film of the same title. He played alongside Christian Bale and Peter Fonda. In 2007 he again worked with Ridley Scott for the film American Gangster. He acted here alongside other big names like Denzel Washington, Josh Brolin and Cuba Gooding Jr.. The film that well in the cinemas.

In 2008 he again worked with in Ridley Scott thriller Body of Lies and Leonardo DiCaprio in playing anywhere. This film plays the Dutch Carice van Houten. In 2009, the political thriller State of Play from. This film plays Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren, Jason Bateman and Robin Wright Penn that same year The Private Lives of Pippa Lee with Keanu Reeves made.

Music
His music career is not known, but since 1992 he plays with the rock band 30 Odd Foot of Frunt. They have released several albums, but there is no mega hits to speak.

Crowe chooses his films very broad, it seems as if everything would have played. But the passion for his craft comes in almost every role reemergence.