Russell Crowe Russell Crowe Russell Ira Crowe (born 7 April 1964) is an actor, film producer and musician. Although a New Zealand citizen, he has lived most of his life in Australia. He came to international attention for his role as the Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film "Gladiator", directed by Ridley Scott, for which Crowe won an Academy Award for Best Actor, a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, an Empire Award for Best Actor and a London Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and 10 further nominations for best actor. Crowe appeared
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