
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

Dr. Jekyll
for Dr. Jekyll in Rupert Sanders' Van Helsing
Suggested by michaelcosby

In 1990s Romania, young Eric Van Helsing witnesses his parents' murder by monsters at a stone circle. Twenty-five years later, Eric is a battle-hardened monster hunter tracking Dracula across Europe. When he crosses paths with Catherine, a young woman enslaved by the immortal Countess Elizabeth Bathory—Dracula's granddaughter—he must forge an uneasy alliance with his sworn enemy to stop her. As Bathory's power grows, threatening to unleash an ancient evil, Eric and Dracula race to destroy her before she drains Dracula's power and becomes unstoppable. But victory comes at a devastating cost, and Eric must decide how far he'll go for revenge.