Age: 62
male
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
Crazy Joe Abner
for Crazy Joe Abner in The Last Letter
Suggested by jakubduda
It starts in 1860s with man being shot and falls and letter is read. Sarah returns to hometown after years in city to heal from a heartbreak, visits a bar, runs into Jake, her high school love, now a musician performing with old friends, former classmates John, Tim, Ritchie. Old feelings resurface. They revisit places they used to go, think about past, walk through park, laugh, share old stories, lay on grass and look at sky. One day she learns that he is engaged to Emily, it makes a tense emotional rift. After arguement with Emily, relizes feelings for Sarah. Finds her and expresses love. She receives job offer in another city, forcing her to make a tough decision, leaves, believing it’s best for them. He sees her off at a station. They share heartfelt goodbye. Months later, she returns. Jake is performing. Their eyes meet. They talk, realize they still have feelings for each other and decide to dating. Jake and his friends are sent to army. After a month of writing letters are in action of Civil War. After heroic moments, he knows every day could be last and writes a letter to Sarah if he dies. She had married rich Union officer, as her father wanted, but he was killed by Jake in War. Jake is shot and dying, we are back in 1st scene. The letter is sent. She cry. After months Jake appears at her door alive. Talking about how Ritchie saved him and then they were in a shootout but survived and spent long time in military hospital. She is in tears. They hug and kiss.
