Rusell Crowe is a diverse dramatist that is known throughout moviedom for his extraordinary ability to also direct and write. His contributions to show biz are incomparable.. Celeb Talk Mag is your source for Rusell Crowe news and information.

Crowe’s maternal great-great-grandmother was Maori, and his paternal grandfather was from Wrexham, Wales; Crowe also has Scottish, Norwegian, English, and German ancestry. His cousins, Martin and Jeff Crowe, are former New Zealand cricket captains. He then continued his secondary education at Mount Roskill Grammar School, which he left at the age sixteen to pursue his ambitions and childhood dreams of becoming a successful actor. Crowe returned to Australia at age 21, intending to apply to the National Institute of Dramatic Art. After initial success in Australia, Crowe began acting in American films. Crowe starred in the 2010 Paul Haggis film The Next Three Days, an adaptation of the 2008 French film Pour Elle. Crowe performed lead vocals and guitar for the band, which formed in 1992. Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005 and then in 2006 returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.

In the early 1990s, Crowe’s local prominence peaked when he won the Australian Film Industry Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an inner-city skinhead in the Geoffrey Wright film, Romper Stomper. When Crowe was four years old, his family moved to Australia, where his parents pursued a career in film set catering. He was educated at the Sydney Boys High School. Crowe returned to Australia at age 21, intending to apply to the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He said, ‘You already do the things you go there to learn, and you’ve been doing it for most of your life, so there’s nothing to teach you but bad habits.’” From 1986 to 1988, he was given his first professional role by director Daniel Abineri, in a production of The Rocky Horror Show. It has been suggested by the Guardian and Entertainment Weekly that his attack on television producer Malcolm Gerrie for cutting short his acceptance speech may have turned voters against him. Within the six year stretch from 1997-2003, he also starred in two other best picture nominees, L.A. Confidential and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. A new single, Raewyn, was released in April 2005 and an album entitled My Hand, My Heart which was released and is available for download on iTunes.