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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
General Woundwort
for General Woundwort in The Pagemistress
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Based on the classic book series by Bill Argobrak, an ambitious young boy named Devin finds a conch shell in the Library of Congress and he blows it one long blast, causing a big pile of paint cans to come crashing down by flooding the classroom with loads of colorful paint and turn him into an animated character. On his way he meets Nicola, the Pagemistress, her best friends, Lucy and Edward, and her crew of magical creatures led by a wizard named Merlin, including a baby sea otter named Lottie. But when a golden crown of the Spanish King gets stolen, they help a lost young penguin named Weeber find his way back home to the South Pole and retrieve the crown back to its owner. This story encourages people on how to protect the environment, stay informed and vote, make the world a better place to live and stay away from different types of pollution.
