Russell Crowe 2006. Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in the Wellington suburb of Strathmore Park, the son of Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom were film set caterers; his father also managed a hotel. Crowe's maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who was named an MBE for filming footage of World War II. Crowe's paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was from Wrexham, Wales, while one of Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmothers was Māori. Crowe also has English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Scottish, Swedish, and Welsh ancestry. He is a cousin of former New Zealand cricket captains
Henry Woodfall Crowe HMS "Duke of Wellington" during the war was issued as a book in 2012 by one of his relatives. At the time, "The Duke of Wellington" was the world's largest battleship and the ship's commander, Charles Napier, was a legend in his own time. Crowe later served as the British consul in Helsinki. Crowe died in Christiania and is buried there in Our Savior's Cemetery. Henry Woodfall Crowe Henry Woodfall Crowe (April 29, 1832 – November 7, 1865) was a British-Norwegian interpreter, translator, and author. Crowe was born in Kåfjord, Norway, the son of John Rice Crowe (1795–1877) and Malene