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
the Captain of the Ship
for the Captain of the Ship in Robinson Crusoe
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Robinson Crusoe is an Englishman of York in 17th century. Encouraged by his father to study law, Crusoe expresses his wish to go to sea instead. Initially, Robinson is committed to obeying his father, but he eventually embarks on a ship bound for London with a friend. When a storm causes the near deaths of Crusoe and his friend, Crusoe still goes on to set himself up as merchant on a ship leaving London. This trip is financially successful, and Crusoe plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly widow. The ship is seized by Moorish pirates, and Crusoe is enslaved to a potentate in Sallee. While on a fishing expedition, he and a slave boy break free and sail down the African coast. A kindly Portuguese captain picks them up, buys the slave boy from Crusoe, and takes Crusoe to Brazil. In Brazil, Crusoe establishes himself as a plantation owner and soon becomes successful. Eager for slave labor and its economic advantages, he embarks on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa but ends up shipwrecked off of the coast of Trinidad. Crusoe is onlyone survivor. Returns to the wreck for guns, powder, food, finds goats, build a shelter. 1660, he is ill, hallucinates that an angel visits, warning him to repent. Drinking tobacco-steeped rum, Crusoe realizes that God has delivered him from his earlier sins. He saved native and named him Friday. On December 19, 1686, Crusoe boards the ship to return to England. His widow friend has kept Crusoe’s money safe.
