Biografía

Gravelly smoke-burnished voice

Frequently plays exceptionally talented individuals

Often works with directors Ron Howard and Ridley Scott.

Often plays characters based on real individuals

Frequently plays fathers or family men who have usually suffered a loss

Turned down the role of Aragorn in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy since filming on El señor de los anillos: La comunidad del anillo (2001) would coincide with Ron Howard's Una mente brillante (2001). However, Crowe really loved the idea of filming a movie in his home country, New Zealand, for an extended amount of time.

He turned down the role of Logan/Wolverine in X-Men (2000) because he did not want to play another similar role to the Maximus from Gladiador (2000), which he just completed. Crowe felt the characters were too similar by having the same animal totem - the wolf, and thought the movie was a cartoon, which it is not his cup of tea.

The role of James J. Braddock (El luchador (2005)) is his personal favorite.

When his wife was pregnant with his first child Charles, he gave up drinking alcohol with her.

After filming Gladiador (2000), he and some friends took a 4,000 mile motorcycle trip around Australia.

One of the most painful things of the Los Ángeles al desnudo (1997) character I played was that the author, James Ellroy, kept telling me that Bud White wasn't a drinker. I said, "Come on, this is 1953. He's a blue-collar bloke, a cop. You're telling me he doesn't sit around with the boys after his shift and have a beer?". And Ellroy says, "Absolutely not." So for five months and seven days, I didn't have a drink. It's probably the most painful period of my life.

[on winning the Best Actor Oscar] If you grow up in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable. But this moment is directly connected to those imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.

It's not really what I'd call a movie. I was stunned that Miramax wanted to buy it. I mean it's really rude. It showed me in a really bad light. It's also shoddily made. It's cobbled together. [expressing surprise that a low-budget documentary of his band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, has been picked up for worldwide distribution]

[on meeting Robert De Niro] I felt this tap on my shoulder and I turned around and, you know that De Niro fellow? Well, he didn't say a word. He didn't say "Hello", "Good evening" or anything or "Hi, I'm Robert". He just looked at me and he nodded his head and he smiled. And he walked off.

You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Dos tipos peligrosos (2016) - more than $7,000,000

Robin Hood (2010) - $20,000,000

El luchador (2005) - $15,000,000

Capitán de mar y guerra: La costa más lejana del mundo (2004) - $20,000,000

Una mente brillante (2002) - $15,000,000