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Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a
film actor born in Wellington, New Zealand. Two cousins, Martin and Jeff
Crowe are former New Zealand cricket captains.
When he was four years old, he moved to
Australia. He attended the Sydney Boys High School and then moved back
to New Zealand to attend the Auckland Grammar School. He then moved on
to another school where he dropped out.
After initial success in Australia, he
became a Hollywood actor in the mid-1990s; he won the Academy Award as
Best Actor in 2001 for Gladiator, and he was also nominated for the
award for The Insider and A Beautiful Mind.
On April 7, 2003 (his 39th birthday), Crowe
married singer and actress Danielle Spencer. On December 21, 2003, his
son Charles Spencer Crowe was born.
He is a supporter of the South Sydney
Rabbitohs rugby league team.
Crowe has gained notoriety for his
off-screen antics, particularly allegations of rowdiness and
belligerence, as parodied in an episode of South Park.
Crowe was also lead singer and guitarist of
an Australian pub rock band, 30 Odd Foot Of Grunts, which formed in
1992. According to Crowe's message on the band's web site, the group has
"dissolved/evolved". The band had found neither critical or popular
success but managed to release three albums: 1998's Gaslight, 2001's
Bastard Life or Clarity and 2003's Other Ways of Speaking.
Crowe has continued with his music,
collaborating with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band, Great Big Sea, in
early 2005. A new single, Raewyn, was released on April 19, 2005. Former
members of his previous band have taken part in the new project. An
album entitled My Hand, My Heart has been released for download on
iTunes and includes a song about the incident where Prince Harry wore a
Nazi-uniform to a costume party.
On March 9, 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ
magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had approached him
prior to the 73rd Academy Awards on March 25, 2001 and told him that the
Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him. Crowe told the
magazine that it was the first time he had ever heard of al-Qaeda (the
September 11 attacks took place later that year) and was quoted as
saying: "You get this late-night call from the FBI when you arrive in
Los Angeles, and they're, like, absolutely full-on. 'We’ve got to talk
to you now before you do anything. We have to have a discussion with
you, Mr. Crowe.'" Crowe recalled that "it was something to do with some
recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or
Algiers...it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture
as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan." Crowe was guarded by Secret
Service agents for the next few months, both while shooting films and at
award ceremonies (Scotland Yard also guarded Crowe while he was
promoting Proof of Life in London in February 2001). Crowe said that he
"never fully understood what the f**k was going on." The FBI confirmed
Crowe's statement (which is uncharacteristic of the agency, which
usually does not comment to the media).
In the early morning of June 6, 2005, Crowe
was arrested and charged with secondary assault by New York Police, in
connection with an incident at the Mercer Hotel, SoHo, New York, in
which a telephone was thrown at the hotel front desk after an having
repeated difficulties making a phone call to relatives in Australia. The
concierge, Nestor "Josh" Estrada, was treated for a facial laceration on
his upper right cheek. A Crowe spokesperson has said a phone was thrown
at a wall but no person was assaulted. A court date is pending. His
attorney is Gerald Lefcourt.
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