Russell Ira Crowe born 7 April 1964 is an Academy Awardwinning 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 awardwinning performances include tobacco firm whistleblower 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 mysterydetective thriller LA 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 310 to Yuma 2007 the crime drama American Gangster 2007 the thrillerdrama State of Play 2009 and Robin Hood 2010 He later starred as Javert in the musical drama Les Misérables 2012 JorEl 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 Sonys SpiderMan 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 coowner of the National Rugby League NRL team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006
HydraHD
