
Age: 62
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Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand actor and film director. His work on screen has earned him various accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a British Academy Film Award. Crowe was born in New Zealand, spending ten years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21. He began acting in Australia and had his break-out role in Romper Stomper (1992). He gained international recognition in the late 1990s for his starring roles in L.A. Confidential (1997) and The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role of Gladiator (2000), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. Further acclaim came for portraying real-life mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. in A Beautiful Mind (2001). Crowe then starred in several films in the 2000s, including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Cinderella Man (2005), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), American Gangster (2007), State of Play (2009), and Robin Hood (2010). Crowe has since appeared in the films Les Misérables (2012), Man of Steel (2013), Noah (2014), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with the drama The Water Diviner, in which he also starred. Aside from acting, Crowe has co-own the National Rugby League (NRL) team South Sydney Rabbitohs since 2006.

Russell Crowe

Bradley Bitterman
for Bradley Bitterman in Corpse Bride
Suggested by peterforman

From the Academy Award-winning director of Pan’s Labyrinth, Blade II and Hellboy comes a live-action comedy-horror. Henry (Peter Forman, TV’s The Biscuit Boys) and June (Sarah Hyland, TV’s Modern Family)’s respective families have arranged their marriage. Although they like each other, Henry is nervous about the ceremony. While he’s in a forest practicing his lines for the wedding, a tree branch becomes a hand that drags him to the land of the dead. It belongs to Jennifer (Lucy Hale, TV’s Pretty Little Liars), who was murdered after eloping with her love and wants to marry Henry. Henry must get back aboveground before June marries the villainous Bradley Bitterman (Jack Black, Kung Fu Panda).

