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'''Russell Ira Crowe''' (born 7 April 1964) is an <!-- DO NOT ADD NATIONALITY/CITIZENSHIP TO FIRST SENTENCE PER RFC CONSENSUS ON TALK PAGE -->actor, director and musician. He was born in New Zealand, spending 10 years of his childhood in Australia and residing there permanently by age 21.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/25/russell-crowe-twice-denied-australian-citizenship-its-so-so-unreasonable |title=Russell Crowe claims twice denied Australian citizenship: 'It's so, so unreasonable' |work=The Guardian |location=London |last=Tan |first=Monica |date=25 March 2015 |access-date=27 June 2021 |archive-date=7 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607204957/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/25/russell-crowe-twice-denied-australian-citizenship-its-so-so-unreasonable |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Roach">{{Cite news |last=Roach |first=Vicki |date=26 June 2013 |title=Oscar-winner Russell Crowe denied Australian citizenship |work=Courier Mail |location= Brisbane |url= http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/oscarwinner-russell-crowe-denied-australian-citizenship/story-fnic6ynx-1226670247991 |access-date=26 June 2013 |archive-date=15 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160815062942/http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/oscarwinner-russell-crowe-denied-australian-citizenship/story-fnic6ynx-1226670247991 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Russell Crowe filmography|His work on screen]] has earned him [[List of awards and nominations received by Russell Crowe|various accolades]], including an [[Academy Award]], two [[Golden Globe Awards]], and a [[British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Award]].
Crowe began acting in Australia and had his breakout role in the drama ''[[Romper Stomper]]'' (1992). He gained international recognition for his starring roles as a police detective in the thriller ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' (1997) and [[Jeffrey Wigand]] in the drama ''[[The Insider (film)|The Insider]]'' (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing the title role in the period film ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]'' (2000), winning the [[Academy Award for Best Actor]]. Further acclaim came for portraying mathematician [[John Forbes Nash Jr.]] in the biopic ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]'' (2001). He then starred in the war film ''[[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]'' (2003), the sports drama ''[[Cinderella Man]]'' (2005), the Western ''[[3:10 to Yuma (2007 film)|3:10 to Yuma]]'' (2007), the crime drama ''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]'' (2007), the thriller ''[[State of Play (film)|State of Play]]'' (2009), and the action film ''[[Robin Hood (2010 film)|Robin Hood]]'' (2010).
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After initial success in Australia, Crowe first starred in a Canadian production in 1993, ''[[For the Moment (film)|For the Moment]]'', before concentrating on American films. He co-starred with [[Denzel Washington]] in ''[[Virtuosity]]'' (the duo later appearing together in ''[[American Gangster (film)|American Gangster]]'') and with [[Sharon Stone]] in ''[[The Quick and the Dead (1995 film)|The Quick and the Dead]]'' in 1995.<ref name="actors" /> He went on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the [[Academy Award]] as [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]] in 2000 for ''[[Gladiator (2000 film)|Gladiator]]''.<ref name="actors" /> Crowe was awarded the (Australian) [[Centenary Medal]] in 2001 for "service to Australian society and Australian film production."<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127575 It's an Honour website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230422064357/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1127575 |date=22 April 2023 }}. Retrieved 23 October 2010.</ref>
Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for ''The Insider'', ''Gladiator'', and ''[[A Beautiful Mind (film)|A Beautiful Mind]]''.<ref name="actors" /> Crowe won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role|best actor award]] for ''A Beautiful Mind'' at the [[56th British Academy Film Awards|2002 BAFTA award]] ceremony, as well as the [[Golden Globe]] and [[Screen Actors Guild Award|Screen Actors Guild]] awards for the same performance. Although nominated for an Academy Award, he lost to Denzel Washington. All three films were also nominated for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], and both ''Gladiator'' and ''A Beautiful Mind'' won the award. Crowe became the first actor to star as the lead in back-to-back Best Picture winners since [[Walter Pidgeon]] (who starred in ''[[How Green Was My Valley (film)|How Green Was My Valley]]'' [1941] and ''[[Mrs. Miniver]]'' [1942]).{{cn|date=May 2024}}
Within the six-year stretch from 1997 to 2003, he also starred in two other best picture nominees, ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|L.A. Confidential]]'' and ''[[Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World]]''. In 2005, he re-teamed with ''A Beautiful Mind'' director [[Ron Howard]] for the biographical boxing drama ''[[Cinderella Man]]''. In 2006, he re-teamed with ''Gladiator'' director [[Ridley Scott]] for ''[[A Good Year]]'', the first of two consecutive collaborations (the second being ''American Gangster'' co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007). Although the light romantic comedy of ''A Good Year'' was not greatly received, Crowe seemed pleased with the film, telling [[STV (TV channel)|STV]] in an interview that he thought it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russell Crowe video interview |url=http://www.stv.tv/content/out/film/videointerviews/display.html?id=opencms:/out/films/video_interviews/russell_crowe_a_good_year_interview |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501091646/http://www.stv.tv/content/out/film/videointerviews/display.html?id=opencms%3A%2Fout%2Ffilms%2Fvideo_interviews%2Frussell_crowe_a_good_year_interview |archive-date=1 May 2008 |access-date=29 May 2007 |publisher=[[STV (TV network)|STV]] |format=Video}}</ref>
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On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to ''[[GQ]]'' magazine that [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agents had approached him prior to the [[73rd Academy Awards]] and told him that the terrorist group [[al-Qaeda]] wanted to kidnap him.<ref name="al-Qaeda threats">{{Cite web |last=Kevin Roxburgh |title=Russell Crowe Biography |url=http://www.american-gangster.net/russell-crowe-biography.php |access-date=26 October 2011 |publisher=american-gangster.net |archive-date=3 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903220425/http://www.american-gangster.net/russell-crowe-biography.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> He recalled, "It was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers... it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan."<ref name="Perry">O'Riordan, Bernard. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/09/alqaida.film How Bin Laden put the word out: get Russell Crowe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923004714/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/09/alqaida.film |date=23 September 2016 }}, ''The Guardian'', 9 March 2005. Retrieved 12 July 2008.</ref>
At the beginning of 2009, Crowe appeared in a series of Australian special-edition postage stamps called "Legends of the Screen", featuring Australian actors. Crowe, [[Geoffrey Rush]], [[Cate Blanchett]], and [[Nicole Kidman]] each appear twice in the series, once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-nominated character. Crowe is the only non-Australian to appear in the stamps.<ref>[http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256753,00.html "Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman Happy to Be Licked – On Stamps."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205150210/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20256753,00.html |date=5 February 2009 }} ''People'' Alan Doyle. 4 February 2009.</ref>
In June 2010, Crowe, who started smoking when he was 10, announced he had [[smoking cessation|quit]] for the sake of his two sons.<ref>{{cite news |title=My son made me feel ashamed – Crowe |url=https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/my-smoking-habit-was-bigger-than-ben-hur-says-russell-crowe-ng-336dce9b870cc771b2ba9ade03ef5c0f#:~:text=RUSSELL%20Crowe%20has%20revealed%20the,out%20a%20late%2Dnight%20cigarette. |access-date=24 May 2022 |work=PerthNow |date=27 July 2010 |language=en |archive-date=24 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324131643/https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/my-smoking-habit-was-bigger-than-ben-hur-says-russell-crowe-ng-336dce9b870cc771b2ba9ade03ef5c0f#:~:text=RUSSELL%20Crowe%20has%20revealed%20the,out%20a%20late%2Dnight%20cigarette. |url-status=live }}</ref> In November, he told [[David Letterman]] that he had smoked more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years, and that he had "fallen off the wagon" the night before the interview and smoked heavily.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Snyder |first=Steven James |date=11 November 2010 |title=The Night Shift: Now A Serious Word or Two From Russell Crowe (Video) |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://entertainment.time.com/2010/11/11/the-night-shift-now-a-serious-word-about-smoking-with-russell-crowe-video/}}</ref>
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On the day of the appointment, Crowe declared that it would be important to host the next [[FIFA World Cup]] in Italy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe diventa "Ambasciatore di Roma nel mondo" |url=https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2022-10-14/russell-crowe-diventa-ambasciatore-roma-nel-mondo-18446122/ |access-date=20 December 2022 |agency=agi.it |publisher=agi.it |date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=17 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230817145627/https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2022-10-14/russell-crowe-diventa-ambasciatore-roma-nel-mondo-18446122/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe diventa "Ambasciatore di Roma nel mondo" |url=https://tg24.sky.it/roma/2022/10/14/russell-crowe-ambasciatore-roma-mondo |access-date=20 December 2022 |agency=tg24.sky.it |publisher=tg24.sky.it |date=20 December 2022 |archive-date=20 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221220200952/https://tg24.sky.it/roma/2022/10/14/russell-crowe-ambasciatore-roma-mondo |url-status=live }}</ref>
In July 2023, on holiday in Italy visiting the archaeological site of [[Ostia Antica]], to please fans of ''Gladiator'', including those who asked about [[Gladiator
<ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe torna Gladiatore a Ostia Antica: "Hey, sono Max. Ma dove sono finiti gli uomini?" |url=https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/07/07/news/russell_crowe_ostia_antica_gladiatore_video-407000363/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |agency=roma.repubblica.it |publisher=roma.repubblica.it |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707212658/https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/07/07/news/russell_crowe_ostia_antica_gladiatore_video-407000363/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Russell Crowe a Roma per Il Gladiatore 2? Foto e selfie in centro |url=https://www.iltempo.it/personaggi/2023/07/07/gallery/russell-crowe-roma-ostia-gladiatore2-foto-video-36315366/ |access-date=7 July 2023 |agency=iltempo.it |publisher=iltempo.it |date=7 July 2023 |archive-date=7 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707213116/https://www.iltempo.it/personaggi/2023/07/07/gallery/russell-crowe-roma-ostia-gladiatore2-foto-video-36315366/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/gladiator-2-maximus-reprisal-cicero-call-russell-crowe-video/|title=Gladiator 2: Russell Crowe Challenges Original Movie Betrayal While In Rome|date=7 July 2023|website=ScreenRant|access-date=6 September 2023|archive-date=22 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822095417/https://screenrant.com/gladiator-2-maximus-reprisal-cicero-call-russell-crowe-video/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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