Thursday 27 March 2014

Russell Crowe

Russell Ira Crowe (born in Wellington, New Zealand on 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician based in Australia and the United States. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor.

Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category. In 2001, Crowe's portrayal of mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John F. Nash in the biopic A Beautiful Mind brought him numerous awards, including a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.

Crowe's other films include L.A. Confidential (1997), Master and Commander (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010) and has portrayed Javert in Les Misérables (2012), an adaptation of the popular musical. In 2013 he appeared in Man of Steel, where he played Jor-El, the father of Superman. In 2014 Crowe portrays the title character in the biblical epic Noah directed by Darren Aronofsky. (Wikipedia)



Romper Stomper (1992)

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Virtuosity (1995)

Breaking Up (1997)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Mystery, Alaska (1999)

The Insider (1999)

Proof of Life (2000)

Gladiator (2000)

Gladiator (2000)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Master and Commander (2003)

Master and Commander (2003)

Cinderella Man (2005)

A Good Year (2006)

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

American Gangster (2007)

Bodies of Lies (2008)

State of Play (2009)

Robin Hood (2010)

Robin Hood (2010) Italian poster

The Next Three Days (2010)

Les Miserables (2012) French poster

Les Miserables (2012)

The Man With the Iron Fists (2012)

Broken City (2013)

Man of Steel (2013)

Man of Steel (2013)

Noah (2014)

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