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Russell Crowe is an Academy Award-winning actor. The son of movie set caterers, Russell got the acting bug early in life, beginning as a child star on a local Australian TV show. His first big break came with two films, "Romper Stomper" (1992) and "The Sum of Us" (1994). When Sharon Stone saw "Romper Stomper" (1992), she asked Crowe to be in her film, "The Quick and the Dead" (1995), which became his first American film. He quickly moved on to his second, "Virtuosity" (1995), a Sci-Fi extravaganza starring Denzel Washington. After his third film "L.A.
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JUNE 6--In a move straight out of the Naomi Campbell playbook, actor Russell Crowe was arrested early this morning for allegedly assaulting a New York City hotel employee with a telephone. The Academy Award-winning actor, 41, was hit with a felony assault count and a misdemeanor weapons possession rap, according to the below Criminal Court complaint. It is unclear why Crowe allegedly struck the Mercer Hotel concierge in the face with the phone during the 4 AM incident (the blow left the victim with minor lacerations, cops said). Crowe spent the rest of the morning in police custody before being released (without bail) after his arraignment early this afternoon. The actor, who stars as pugilist James J. Braddock in his new film "Cinderella Man," faces up to seven years in jail if convicted of the phone fracas.
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Russell Crowe has committed to replace Brad Pitt as the star of Universal's State of Play, which is being directed by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland). As previously reported, Universal sought Crowe for the role after Pitt abruptly left the project over a script dispute. Crowe joins Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Rachel McAdams, Jason Bateman, and Robin Wright Penn in the drama about a politico-turned-journalist (Crowe) who is reporting on a killing that leads to a fast-rising politican (Norton). Along the way, the journalist develops a romance with the pol's estranged wife (Wright Penn). Shooting should start this month. Crowe is set to start work in March on Universal's Robin Hood revision Nottingham, which reunites Imagine's Brian Grazer and director Ridley Scott, the team behind American Gangster.
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Russell Crowe won an Oscar as best actor for playing the title role in the 2000 film Gladiator. Crowe began acting in his adopted home country of Australia, winning acclaim in films like The Crossing (1990) and Romper Stomper (1992). In the mid-1990s he became more prominent in America in films like Sharon Stone's The Quick and the Dead (1995... starring Leonardo DiCaprio). He broke through as a heroic cop in the retro crime thriller L.A. Confidential (1997, with Kim Basinger) and won an Oscar nomination for his work as tobacco whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand in 1999's The Insider. The next year he made a huge splash playing the wronged Roman hero Maximus in Gladiator (directed by Ridley Scott).
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Russell Crowe was born in New Zealand on April 7th 1964. He moved to Australia as a young child, and soon developed an interest in acting, appearing in many local drama productions. He made his screen debut in the TV series Living With The Law in 1988.
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ยท A rebounding Universal tries to shake off its recent jilting by Brad Pitt by climbing into bed with Russell Crowe, inviting the actor to partake of Pitt's State of Play sloppy seconds. [Variety]
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