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
Anna Crowe Anna Crowe Anna Crowe is a British poet and translator. She has published three poetry pamphlets and three poetry collections. Crowe is a trained linguist and translator of primarily Catalan and Castilian poetry. She has contributed to anthologies of Catalan poets and has translated her own poetry into Catalan. Anna Crowe was born in Devonport, Plymouth, England in 1945. She grew up in Sussex and in France. She studied French and Spanish at the University of St. Andrews, where she earned an MA. She was named winner of the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition in 1993 and 1997. She was one