document_title: List of the verified oldest people

question_text: who id the oldest person in the world

question_tokens: who id the oldest person in the world

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text: List of the verified oldest people

text: This is a list of the 100 verified oldest people, arranged in descending order of each individual's age in years and days. A year typically refers to a calendar year, the time between two dates of the same name. However, years can be of different lengths due to the presence or absence of a leap day within the year, or to the conversion of dates from one calendar to another.

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text: The oldest person ever whose age has been verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days.

text: There are five living people on this list, all of whom are women and the oldest of whom is Kane Tanaka of Japan, aged 115 years, 223 days.

text: Since all the people on this list have lived past the age of 110, all of them have been, or still are, supercentenarians.

text: 100 verified oldest people[edit]

text:
Deceased
  Living

†^  denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of  today, 13 August 2018

text:
Rank

Name

Sex

Birth date

Death date

Age [†]

Place of death or residence

1

Jeanne Calment[1]

F

21 February 1875

4 August 1997

122 years, 164 days

France

2

Sarah Knauss[2]

F

24 September 1880

30 December 1999

119 years, 97 days

United States

3

Nabi Tajima[3]

F

4 August 1900

21 April 2018

117 years, 260 days

Japan

4

Lucy Hannah[4]

F

16 July 1875

21 March 1993

117 years, 248 days

United States

5

Marie-Louise Meilleur[5]

F

29 August 1880

16 April 1998

117 years, 230 days

Canada

6

Violet Brown[3]

F

10 March 1900

15 September 2017

117 years, 189 days

Jamaica

7

Emma Morano[3][6]

F

29 November 1899

15 April 2017

117 years, 137 days

Italy

8

Chiyo Miyako[3][7][8]

F

2 May 1901

22 July 2018

117 years, 81 days

Japan

9

Misao Okawa[3]

F

5 March 1898

1 April 2015

117 years, 27 days

Japan

10

María Capovilla[9]

F

14 September 1889

27 August 2006

116 years, 347 days

Ecuador

11

Susannah Mushatt Jones[3]

F

6 July 1899

12 May 2016

116 years, 311 days

United States

12

Gertrude Weaver[3]

F

4 July 1898

6 April 2015

116 years, 276 days

United States

13

Tane Ikai[10]

F

18 January 1879

12 July 1995

116 years, 175 days

Japan

14

Elizabeth Bolden[11]

F

15 August 1890

11 December 2006

116 years, 118 days

United States

15

Besse Cooper[3]

F

26 August 1896

4 December 2012

116 years, 100 days

United States

16

Jiroemon Kimura[3]

M

19 April 1897

12 June 2013

116 years, 54 days

Japan

17

Ana María Vela Rubio[3]

F

29 October 1901

15 December 2017

116 years, 47 days

Spain

18

Giuseppina  Projetto[3]

F

30 May 1902

6 July 2018

116 years, 37 days

Italy

19

Jeralean Talley[3]

F

23 May 1899

17 June 2015

116 years, 25 days

United States

20

Maggie Barnes[12]

F

6 March 1882

19 January 1998

115 years, 319 days

United States

21

Dina Manfredini[3]

F

4 April 1897

17 December 2012

115 years, 257 days

United States[a]

22

Christian Mortensen[13]

M

16 August 1882

25 April 1998

115 years, 252 days

United States[b]

23

Charlotte Hughes[14]

F

1 August 1877

17 March 1993

115 years, 228 days

United Kingdom

24

Kane Tanaka[3]

F

2 January 1903

Living[3]

7004422270000000000♠115 years, 223 days

Japan

25

Edna Parker[15]

F

20 April 1893

26 November 2008

115 years, 220 days

United States

26

Mary Ann Rhodes[16]

F

12 August 1882

3 March 1998

115 years, 203 days

Canada

27

Anonymous of Tokyo[3]

F

15 March 1900

27 September 2015

115 years, 196 days

Japan

28

Margaret Skeete[17]

F

27 October 1878

7 May 1994

115 years, 192 days

United States

29

Bernice Madigan[18]

F

24 July 1899

3 January 2015

115 years, 163 days

United States

30

Gertrude Baines[19]

F

6 April 1894

11 September 2009

115 years, 158 days

United States

31

Emiliano Mercado del Toro[13]

M

21 August 1891

24 January 2007

115 years, 156 days

Puerto Rico

32

Bettie Wilson[20]

F

13 September 1890

13 February 2006

115 years, 153 days

United States

33

Maria Giuseppa Robucci[3]

F

20 March 1903

Living[3]

7004421500000000000♠115 years, 146 days

Italy

34

Julie Winnefred Bertrand[21]

F

16 September 1891

18 January 2007

115 years, 124 days

Canada

35

Maria de Jesus[22]

F

10 September 1893

2 January 2009

115 years, 114 days

Portugal

36

Marie Josephine Gaudette[3][23]

F

25 March 1902

13 July 2017

115 years, 110 days

Italy[c]

37

Susie Gibson[24]

F

31 October 1890

16 February 2006

115 years, 108 days

United States

38

Shimoe Akiyama[3]

F

19 May 1903

Living[3]

7004420900000000000♠115 years, 86 days

Japan

39

Augusta Holtz[25]

F

3 August 1871

21 October 1986

115 years, 79 days

United States[d]

40

Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper[26]

F

29 June 1890

30 August 2005

115 years, 62 days

Netherlands

41

Maude Farris-Luse[27]

F

21 January 1887

18 March 2002

115 years, 56 days

United States

42

Marie Brémont[28]

F

25 April 1886

6 June 2001

115 years, 42 days

France

43

Koto Okubo[29]

F

24 December 1897

12 January 2013

115 years, 19 days

Japan

44

Antonia Gerena Rivera[3]

F

19 May 1900

2 June 2015

115 years, 14 days

United States[e]

45

Chiyono Hasegawa[30]

F

20 November 1896

2 December 2011

115 years, 12 days

Japan

46

Annie Jennings[31]

F

12 November 1884

20 November 1999

115 years, 8 days

United Kingdom

47

Eva Morris[32]

F

8 November 1885

2 November 2000

114 years, 360 days

United Kingdom

48

Kama Chinen[33]

F

10 May 1895

2 May 2010

114 years, 357 days

Japan

49

Maria Gomes Valentim[34]

F

9 July 1896

21 June 2011

114 years, 347 days

Brazil

50

Mary Bidwell[35]

F

19 May 1881

25 April 1996

114 years, 342 days

United States

51

Mary Josephine Ray[36]

F

17 May 1895

7 March 2010

114 years, 294 days

United States[f]

52

Goldie Steinberg[3][37][38]

F

30 October 1900

16 August 2015

114 years, 290 days

United States[g]

53

Kiyoko Ishiguro[3]

F

4 March 1901

5 December 2015

114 years, 276 days

Japan

54

Maria do Couto Maia-Lopes[13]

F

24 October 1890

25 July 2005

114 years, 274 days

Portugal

Eudoxie Baboul[3]

F

1 October 1901

1 July 2016

114 years, 274 days

France (French Guiana)

56

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan[39]

F

31 August 1889

29 May 2004

114 years, 272 days

Puerto Rico

57

Yukie Hino[3]

F

17 April 1902

13 January 2017

114 years, 271 days

Japan

58

Delphine Gibson[3]

F

17 August 1903

9 May 2018

114 years, 265 days

United States

59

Eugénie Blanchard[40]

F

16 February 1896

4 November 2010

114 years, 261 days

France (Saint Barthélemy)

60

Venere Pizzinato-Papo[41]

F

23 November 1896

2 August 2011

114 years, 252 days

Italy[h]

61

Neva Morris[42]

F

3 August 1895

6 April 2010

114 years, 246 days

United States

62

Hide Ohira[13]

F

15 September 1880

9 May 1995

114 years, 236 days

Japan

63

Blanche Cobb[43][44]

F

8 September 1900

1 May 2015

114 years, 235 days

United States

64

Ethel Lang[3]

F

27 May 1900

15 January 2015

114 years, 233 days

United Kingdom

65

Mathew Beard[13]

M

9 July 1870

16 February 1985

114 years, 222 days

United States

66

Yone Minagawa[45]

F

4 January 1893

13 August 2007

114 years, 221 days

Japan

67

María Antonia Castro[46]

F

10 June 1881

16 January 1996

114 years, 220 days

Spain

68

Carrie Lazenby[13]

F

9 February 1882

14 September 1996

114 years, 218 days

United States

Ura Koyama[47]

F

30 August 1890

5 April 2005

114 years, 218 days

Japan

70

Myrtle Dorsey[48]

F

22 November 1885

25 June 2000

114 years, 216 days

United States

71

Iso Nakamura[3]

F

23 April 1903

23 November 2017

114 years, 214 days

Japan

72

Anna Eliza Williams[49]

F

2 June 1873

27 December 1987

114 years, 208 days

United Kingdom

73

Walter Breuning[13]

M

21 September 1896

14 April 2011

114 years, 205 days

United States

74

Eunice Sanborn[50]

F

20 July 1896

31 January 2011

114 years, 195 days

United States

75

Grace Clawson[51]

F

15 November 1887

28 May 2002

114 years, 194 days

United States[i]

76

Mitsue Toyoda[3]

F

15 February 1902

25 August 2016

114 years, 192 days

Japan

77

Tase Matsunaga[52]

F

11 May 1884

18 November 1998

114 years, 191 days

Japan

78

Yukichi Chuganji[13]

M

23 March 1889

28 September 2003

114 years, 189 days

Japan

79

Kame Nakamura[53]

F

8 March 1898

12 September 2012

114 years, 188 days

Japan

80

Lydie Vellard[13]

F

18 March 1875

17 September 1989

114 years, 183 days

France

Wilhelmina Kott[54]

F

7 March 1880

6 September 1994

114 years, 183 days

United States

Adelina Domingues[55]

F

19 February 1888

21 August 2002

114 years, 183 days

United States[j]

Lucile Randon[3]

F

11 February 1904

Living[3]

7004418220000000000♠114 years, 183 days

France

84

Mitoyo Kawate[56]

F

15 May 1889

13 November 2003

114 years, 182 days

Japan

85

Charlotte Benkner[57]

F

16 November 1889

14 May 2004

114 years, 180 days

United States[k]

Camille Loiseau[58]

F

13 February 1892

12 August 2006

114 years, 180 days

France

87

Anne Primout[59]

F

5 October 1890

26 March 2005

114 years, 172 days

France[l]

88

Ettie Mae Greene[60]

F

8 September 1877

26 February 1992

114 years, 171 days

United States

89

Dominga Velasco[3]

F

12 May 1901

11 October 2015

114 years, 152 days

United States[m]

90

Toshie Yorimitsu[3]

F

30 September 1901

28 February 2016

114 years, 151 days

Japan

91

Irene Frank[13]

F

1 October 1881

28 February 1996

114 years, 150 days

United States

92

Christina Cock[61]

F

25 December 1887

22 May 2002

114 years, 148 days

Australia[n]

93

Olivia Patricia Thomas[62]

F

29 June 1895

16 November 2009

114 years, 140 days

United States

94

Shin Matsushita[3]

F

30 March 1904

Living[3]

7004417740000000000♠114 years, 136 days

Japan

95

Tae Ito[3]

F

11 July 1903

13 November 2017

114 years, 125 days

Japan

96

Anna Henderson[63]

F

5 March 1900

1 July 2014

114 years, 118 days

United States

97

Emma Verona Johnston[64]

F

6 August 1890

1 December 2004

114 years, 117 days

United States

Mamie Rearden[65]

F

7 September 1898

2 January 2013

114 years, 117 days

United States

99

Bettie Chatmon[13]

F

30 April 1884

16 August 1998

114 years, 108 days

United States

100

Odie Matthews[13]

F

28 December 1878

14 April 1993

114 years, 107 days

United States

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text:
a^  Manfredini was born in Italy.
b^  Mortensen was born in Denmark.
c^  Gaudette was born in the United States.
d^  Holtz was born in the German Empire; her birthplace is now in Poland.
e^  Gerena was born in Puerto Rico.
f^  Ray was born in Canada.
g^  Steinberg was born in Kishinev, then part of the Russian Empire. It is now the capital of Moldova.
h^  Pizzinato-Papo was born in Ala, which was then part of Austria-Hungary; it is now located in Italy.
i^  Clawson was born in the United Kingdom.
j^  Domingues was born in Cape Verde, at that time a colony of Portugal.
k^  Benkner was born in Germany.
l^  Primout was born in French Algeria; it is now Algeria.
m^  Velasco was born in Mexico.
n^  Cock was born in the former British colony Victoria, which is now part of Australia.


document_title: List of players who have scored 10,000 or more runs in One Day International cricket

question_text: name the only pakistani batsman who has scored over 10000 runs in odi cricket

text: Key[edit]

text:
Mat. – denotes the total number of matches played
Inn. – denotes the total number of innings batted
Date – denotes the date in which of the player crossed the 10,000 run mark
Span – denotes the time span between the player's debut and the date in which the player crossed the 10,000 run mark
10KI – denotes the number of innings the player took to reach 10,000 runs

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text: 10,000 or more runs in One Day Internationals[edit]

text:
10,000 runs in ODIs[11]

No.
Player
Team
Total Runs
Mat.
Inn.
10KI[11]
Date[11]
Avg.
100s
S/R
50s
Debut
Retirement
Career Span[11]

1
Tendulkar, SachinSachin Tendulkar[15]

 India
18,426
463
452
259
000000002001-03-31-000031 March 2001
44.83
490 !49
86.23
960 !96
19890 !1989
20121 !2012
11103 ! 23 years, 103 days

2
Sangakkara, KumarKumar Sangakkara[c][16]

 Sri Lanka
14,234
404
380
296
000000002012-02-17-000017 February 2012
41.98
250 !25
78.88
930 !93
20000 !2000
20151 !2015
11227 !11 years, 227 days

3
Ponting, RickyRicky Ponting[d][17]

 Australia
13,704
375
365
266
000000002007-03-24-000024 March 2007
42.03
300 !30
80.39
820 !82
19950 !1995
20120 !2012
12037 !12 years, 37 days

4
Jayasuriya, SanathSanath Jayasuriya[e][18]

 Sri Lanka
13,430
445
433
328
000000002005-08-09-00009 August 2005
32.36
280 !28
91.20
680 !68
19891 !1989
20110 !2011
15226 !15 years, 226 days

5
Jayawardene, MahelaMahela Jayawardene[f][19]

 Sri Lanka
12,650
448
418
333
000000002011-11-18-000018 November 2011
33.01
190 !19
78.67
770 !77
19980 !1998
20150 !2015
13289 !13 years, 289 days

6
ul-Haq, InzamamInzamam ul-Haq[20]

 Pakistan
11,739
378
350
299
000000002004-09-19-000019 September 2004
39.52
100 !10
74.24
830 !83
19910 !1991
20070 !2007
12302 !12 years, 302 days

7
Kallis, JacquesJacques Kallis[g][21]

 South Africa
11,579
328
314
272
000000002009-01-23-000023 January 2009
44.36
170 !17
72.89
860 !86
19960 !1996
20140 !2014
1314 !13 years, 14 days

8
Ganguly, SouravSourav Ganguly[h][22]

 India
11,363
311
300
263
000000002005-08-03-00003 August 2005
41.02
221 !22
73.70
720 !72
19920 !1992
20072 !2007
13204 !13 years, 204 days[a]

9
Dravid, RahulRahul Dravid[i][23]

 India
10,889
344
318
287
000000002007-02-14-000014 February 2007
39.16
120 !12
71.24
831 !83
19961 !1996
20111 !2011
10317 !10 years, 317 days

10
Lara, BrianBrian Lara[j][24]

 West Indies
10,405
299
289
278
000000002006-12-16-000016 December 2006
40.48
191 !19
79.51
630 !63
19900 !1990
20071 !2007
1637 !16 years, 37 days

11
Dilshan, TillakaratneTillakaratne Dilshan[25]

 Sri Lanka
10,290
330
303
293
000000002015-07-26-000026 July 2015
39.27
220 !22
86.23
470 !47
19990 !1999
20160 !2016
15227 !15 years, 227 days


document_title: Russell Crowe

question_text: what is the name of russell crowe's band

question_tokens: what is the name of russell crowe 's band

text: Russell Crowe

text: Early life[edit]

text: Crowe was born on 7 April 1964 in the Wellington suburb of Strathmore Park,[2][3] the son of Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe,[4] both of whom were film set caterers; his father also managed a hotel.[3] Crowe's maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who was named an MBE for filming footage of World War II.[5] Crowe's paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was from Wrexham, Wales,[6][7] while one of Crowe's maternal great-great-grandmothers was Māori.[4][8] Crowe also has English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Scottish, Swedish, and Welsh ancestry.[9][10][11][12][13] He is a cousin of former New Zealand cricket captains Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe,[14] and nephew of cricketer Dave Crowe.[15] Russell has built a cricket field named for his uncle.[citation needed]

text: When Crowe was four years old, his family moved to Sydney, Australia, where his parents pursued a career in set catering.[4] The producer of the Australian TV series Spyforce was his mother's godfather, and Crowe (at age five or six) was hired for a line of dialogue in one episode, opposite series star Jack Thompson (in 1994 Thompson played the father of Crowe's character in The Sum of Us).[citation needed] Crowe also appeared briefly in the serial The Young Doctors.

text: Crowe was educated at Vaucluse Public School but later moved to Sydney Boys High School.[4] When he was 14, his family moved back to New Zealand where, along with his brother Terry, he attended Auckland Grammar School with cousins Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe. He then continued his secondary education at Mount Roskill Grammar School, which he left at the age 16 to pursue his ambition of becoming an actor.[citation needed]

text: Career[edit]

text: New Zealand[edit]

text: Crowe began his performing career as a musician in the early 1980s, under guidance from his good friend Tom Sharplin, when he performed under the stage name "Russ Le Roq". He released several New Zealand singles including "I Just Want To Be Like Marlon Brando", "Pier 13", "Shattered Glass", none of which charted.[16] He managed an Auckland music venue called "The Venue" in 1984.[17] When he was 18, he was featured in A Very Special Person..., a promotional video for the theology/ministry course at Avondale College, a Seventh-day Adventist tertiary education provider in New South Wales.[18]

text: Australia[edit]

text: Crowe returned to Australia at age 21, intending to apply to the National Institute of Dramatic Art. "I was working in a theatre show, and talked to a guy who was then the head of technical support at NIDA", Crowe has recalled. "I asked him what he thought about me spending three years at NIDA. He told me it'd be a waste of time. He said, 'You already do the things you go there to learn, and you've been doing it for most of your life, so there's nothing to teach you but bad habits.'"[19] From 1986 to 1988, he was given his first professional role by director Daniel Abineri, in a New Zealand production of The Rocky Horror Show.[4] He played the role of Eddie/Dr Scott.[4] He repeated this performance in a further Australian production of the show, which also toured New Zealand.[20] In 1987, Crowe spent six months busking when he could not find other work.[citation needed] In the 1988 Australian production of Blood Brothers, Crowe played the role of Mickey.[citation needed] He was also cast again by Daniel Abineri in the role of Johnny, in the stage musical Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom in 1989.[citation needed]

text:
After appearing in the TV series Neighbours and Living with the Law, Crowe was cast by Faith Martin in his first film, The Crossing (1990), a small-town love triangle directed by George Ogilvie. Before production started, a film-student protégé of Ogilvie, Steve Wallace, hired Crowe for the film Blood Oath (1990) (aka Prisoners of the Sun), which was released a month earlier than The Crossing, although actually filmed later. In 1992, Crowe starred in the first episode of the second series of Police Rescue. Also in 1992, Crowe starred in Romper Stomper, an Australian film which followed the exploits and downfall of a racist skinhead group in blue-collar suburban Melbourne, directed by Geoffrey Wright and co-starring Jacqueline McKenzie. For the role, Crowe won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Actor, following up from his Best Supporting Actor award for Proof in 1991.[4]
In 2015 it was reported that Crowe had applied for Australian citizenship in 2006 and again in 2013 but was rejected because he failed to fulfill the residency requirements.[1] However, Australia's Immigration Department said it had no record of any such application by Crowe.[21]

text: North America[edit]

text: After initial success in Australia, Crowe first starred in a Canadian production in 1993, For the Moment, before concentrating on American films. He co-starred with Denzel Washington in Virtuosity (the duo later appearing together in American Gangster) and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995.[4] He went on to become a three-time Oscar nominee, winning the Academy Award as Best Actor in 2000 for Gladiator.[4] Crowe was awarded the (Australian) Centenary Medal in 2001 for "service to Australian society and Australian film production."[22]

text: Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.[4] Crowe won the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind at the 2002 BAFTA award ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance. Although nominated for an Academy Award, he lost to Denzel Washington.

text: All three films were also nominated for best picture, and both Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind won the award. Within the six-year stretch from 1997 to 2003, he also starred in two other best picture nominees, L.A. Confidential and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. In 2005, he re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for Cinderella Man. In 2006, he re-teamed with Gladiator director Ridley Scott for A Good Year, the first of two consecutive collaborations (the second being American Gangster co-starring again with Denzel Washington, released in late 2007). While the light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not greatly received, Crowe seemed pleased with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thought it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.[23]

text:
In recent years, Crowe's box office standing has declined.[24] The Hollywood stock market (HSX) share Russell Crowe (RCROW), issued in 1998, however maintains constant accretion.[25] Crowe appeared in Robin Hood, a film based on the Robin Hood legend, directed by Ridley Scott and released on 14 May 2010.[26]
Crowe starred in the 2010 Paul Haggis film The Next Three Days, an adaptation of the 2008 French film Pour Elle.[27]

text: After a year off from acting, Crowe played Jackknife in The Man with the Iron Fists, opposite RZA. He took on the role of Inspector Javert in the musical film of Les Misérables (2012),[28] and portrayed Superman's biological father, Jor-El, in the Christopher Nolan produced Superman film, Man of Steel, released in the summer of 2013. In 2014, he played a gangster in the film adaptation of Mark Helprin's 1983 novel Winter's Tale, and the title role in the Darren Aronofsky film Noah.[29] In June 2013, Crowe signed to make his directional debut with an historical drama film The Water Diviner, which he also starred in alongside Jacqueline McKenzie, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney.[30] Set in the year 1919, the film was produced by Troy Lum, Andrew Mason and Keith Rodger.[31] Crowe also starred in The Mummy (2017).

text: Music[edit]

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text: In the 1980s, Crowe, under the name of "Russ le Roq", recorded a song titled "I Want To Be Like Marlon Brando".[32]

text: In the 1980s, Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band, Roman Antix, which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (abbreviated to TOFOG). Crowe performed lead vocals and guitar for the band, which formed in 1992. The band released The Photograph Kills EP in 1995, as well as three full-length records, Gaslight (1998), Bastard Life or Clarity (2001) and Other Ways of Speaking (2003). In 2000, TOFOG performed shows in London, Los Angeles and the now famous run of shows at Stubbs in Austin, Texas which became a live DVD that was released in 2001, called Texas. In 2001, the band came to the US for major press, radio and TV appearances for the Bastard Life or Clarity release and returned to Stubbs in Austin, Texas to kick off a sold out US tour with dates in Austin, Boulder, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York City and the last show at the famous Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

text: In early 2005, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts as a group had "dissolved/evolved" with Crowe feeling his future music would take a new direction. He began a collaboration with Alan Doyle of the Canadian band Great Big Sea, and with it a new band emerged: The Ordinary Fear of God which also involved some members of the previous TOFOG line-up. A new single, Raewyn, was released in April 2005 and an album entitled My Hand, My Heart which was released and is available for download on iTunes. The album includes a tribute song to actor Richard Harris, who became Crowe's friend during the making of Gladiator.

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Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God set out to break the new band in by performing a successful sold out series of dates of Australia in 2005, and then in 2006, returned to the US to promote their new release My Hand, My Heart with another sold-out US Tour and major press, radio and television appearances.
In March 2010, Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God's version of the John Williamson song "Winter Green" was included on a new compilation album The Absolute Best of John Williamson: 40 Years True Blue, commemorating the singer-songwriter's milestone of 40 years in the Australian music industry. As of May 2011, there are plans to release a new Russell Crowe & The Ordinary Fear of God recording (co-written with Alan Doyle) and for a US tour which would be the first live dates in the US since 2006.

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On 2 August 2011, the third collaboration between Crowe and Doyle was released on iTunes as The Crowe/Doyle Songbook Vol III, featuring nine original songs followed by their acoustic demo counterparts (for a total of 18 tracks). Danielle Spencer does guest vocals on most tracks. The release coincided with a pair of live performances at the LSPU Hall in St. John's, Newfoundland.[33] The digital album was released as download versions only on Amazon.com, iTunes, spotify. The album has since charted at No. 72 on the Canadian Albums Chart.[34]
On 26 September 2011, Crowe appeared on-stage at Rogers Arena in Vancouver in the middle of Keith Urban's concert. He sang a cover of Folsom Prison Blues, before joining the rest of the band in a rendition of "The Joker".[35] On 18 August 2012, Crowe appeared along with Doyle at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland as part of the city's Menningarnótt program. They also appeared at downtown bars, Gaukurinn and Kex.[36]

text: Philanthropy[edit]

text: During location filming of Cinderella Man, Crowe made a donation to a Jewish elementary school whose library had been damaged as a result of arson.[37] A note with an anti-Semitic message had been left at the scene.[38] Crowe called school officials to express his concern and wanted his message relayed to the students.[39] The school's building fund received donations from throughout Canada and the amount of Crowe's donation was not disclosed.[40]

text: On another occasion, Crowe donated $200,000 to a struggling primary school near his home in rural Australia. The money went towards an $800,000 project to construct a swimming pool at the school. Crowe's sympathies were sparked when a pupil drowned at the nearby Coffs Harbour beach in 2001, and he felt the pool would help students become better swimmers and improve their water safety. At the opening ceremony, he dove into the pool fully clothed as soon as it was declared open. Nana Glen principal Laurie Renshall said, "The many things he does up here, people just don't know about. We've been trying to get a pool for 10 years."[41]

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Crowe began an on-again, off-again relationship with Australian singer Danielle Spencer in 1989, when they co-starred in the 1990 film The Crossing.[42] In 2000, Crowe was romantically involved with his co-star Meg Ryan while on the set of their film Proof of Life.[43] Crowe and Spencer reconciled in 2001, and married in April 2003 (on Crowe's 39th birthday) at his cattle property in Nana Glen, New South Wales.[42][44] They have two sons: Charles Spencer Crowe (born 21 December 2003)[45] and Tennyson Spencer Crowe (born 7 July 2006).[46] In October 2012, it was reported that Crowe and Spencer had separated;[47][48] they divorced in April 2018.[49]

text: Crowe resides in Australia.[50] In 2011, he and his family moved to a house in Sydney's affluent Rose Bay.[51] Crowe also owns a house in the North Queensland city of Townsville, purchased in May 2008.[52] He is reportedly frugal with money, and is known to drive an old Jeep.[53]

text: In the beginning of 2009, despite not having Australian citizenship, Crowe appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called "Legends of the Screen", featuring Australian actors. He, Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman each appear twice in the series, once as themselves and once as their Academy Award-winning character.[54]

text: Crowe stated in November 2007 that he would like to be baptised as a Christian and felt that he had put it off for too long. "I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man", he said. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."[55]

text: In June 2010, Crowe, who started smoking when he was 10, announced he had quit for the sake of his two sons.[56] In November 2010, Crowe told David Letterman that he had smoked more than 60 cigarettes a day for 36 years, and that he had fallen off the wagon the previous night and smoked heavily.[57]

text: Al-Qaeda threats[edit]

text: On 9 March 2005, Crowe revealed to GQ magazine that Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents had approached him prior to the 73rd Academy Awards in March 2001, and told him that the terrorist group al-Qaeda wanted to kidnap him.[58] Crowe recalled: "It was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers... It was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan."[59]

text: Altercations and controversies[edit]

text: Between 1999 and 2005, Crowe was involved in four altercations which gave him a reputation for having a bad temper.[60]

text: In 1999, Crowe was involved in a scuffle at the Plantation Hotel in Coffs Harbour, Australia, which was caught on security video.[61] Two men were acquitted of using the video in an attempt to blackmail Crowe.[62]

text: Four years later, when part of Crowe's appearance at the 2002 BAFTA awards was cut out to fit into the BBC's tape-delayed broadcast, Crowe used strong language during an argument with producer Malcolm Gerrie. The part cut was a poem in tribute to actor Richard Harris, and it was cut for copyright reasons. Crowe later apologised, saying "What I said to him may have been a little bit more passionate than now, in the cold light of day, I would have liked it to have been."[63]

text: Later that year, Crowe was alleged to have been involved in a brawl with businessman and fellow New Zealander Eric Watson inside the London branch of Zuma, a fashionable Japanese restaurant chain. The fight was broken up by British actor Ross Kemp.[64][65]

text: In June 2005, Crowe was arrested and charged with second-degree assault by New York City police after he threw a telephone at the concierge of the Mercer Hotel, who refused to help him place a call when the system did not work from Crowe's room. He was also charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon (the telephone).[66] The concierge was treated for a facial laceration.[67] After his arrest, Crowe underwent a perp walk, a procedure customary in New York City, exposing the handcuffed suspect to the news media to take pictures. This procedure was under discussion as potentially violating Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Crowe later described the incident as "possibly the most shameful situation that I've ever gotten myself in..." .[68] Crowe pleaded guilty and was conditionally discharged. Before the trial, he settled a lawsuit filed by the concierge, Nestor Estrada.[69][70] Terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but amounts in the six-figure range have been reported.[71]

text: The telephone incident had a generally negative impact on Crowe's public image, an example of negative public relations in the mass media, although Crowe had made a point of befriending Australian journalists in an effort to influence his image.[72] A professional public image as "The Gladiator" had to compete alongside one as "the telephone throwing actor". For example, the South Park episode, "The New Terrance and Phillip Movie Trailer" revolves around a lampooning of his aggressive tendencies. Crowe commented on the ongoing media perpetuation in November 2010, five years into the process, during an interview with American television talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose: "it affected me psychologically" (...) "it indelibly changed me."[73]

text: Sport[edit]

text: Crowe says he follows New Zealand's rugby union team, the All Blacks, and Australia in any other sport.[74] Two of his cousins, Martin Crowe and Jeff Crowe, captained the Black Caps New Zealand international cricket team.[75]

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Crowe has been a supporter of the rugby league football team the South Sydney Rabbitohs since childhood. Since his rise to fame as an actor, he has continued appearing at home games, and supported the financially troubled club. Following the Super League war of the 1990s Crowe made an attempt to use his Hollywood connections to convince Ted Turner, rival of Super League's Rupert Murdoch, to save the Rabbitohs before they were forced from the National Rugby League competition for two years.[76] In 1999 Crowe paid $42,000 at auction for the brass bell used to open the inaugural rugby league match in Australia in 1908 at a fund-raiser to assist Souths' legal battle for re-inclusion in the League.[77] In 2005, he made the Rabbitohs the first club team in Australia to be sponsored by a film, when he negotiated a deal to advertise his film Cinderella Man on their jerseys.[78]
On 19 March 2006, the voting members of the South Sydney club voted (in a 75.8% majority) to allow Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75% of the organisation, leaving 25% ownership with the members. It cost them A$3 million, and they received four of eight seats on the board of directors. A six-part television miniseries entitled South Side Story depicting the takeover aired in Australia in 2007.[79]
On 5 November 2006, Crowe appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to announce that Firepower International was sponsoring the South Sydney Rabbitohs for $3 million over three years.[80] During a Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance, Crowe showed viewers a Rabbitoh playing jersey with Firepower's name emblazoned on it.[81]

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Crowe helped to organise a rugby league game that took place at the University of North Florida, in Jacksonville, Florida, between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the European Super League champions Leeds Rhinos on 26 January 2008 (Australia Day).[82] Crowe told ITV Local Yorkshire the game was not a marketing exercise.[83]
Crowe wrote a letter of apology to a Sydney newspaper following the sacking of South Sydney's coach Jason Taylor and one of their players David Fa'alogo after a drunken altercation between the two at the end of the 2009 NRL season.[84]
Also in 2009 Crowe persuaded young England international forward Sam Burgess to sign with the Rabbitohs over other clubs that were competing for his signature, after inviting Burgess and his mother to the set of Robin Hood, which he was filming in Britain at the time.[85]

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Crowe's influence helped to persuade noted player Greg Inglis to renege on his deal to join the Brisbane Broncos and sign for the Rabbitohs for 2011.[86]
In 2010, the NRL was investigating Crowe's business relationships with a number of media and entertainment companies including Channel Nine, Channel Seven, ANZ Stadium, and V8 Supercars in relation to the South Sydney Rabbitohs' salary cap.[87]

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In 2011, Souths also announced a corporate partnership with the bookmaking conglomerate Luxbet.[88]
Previously, Crowe had been prominent in trying to prevent gambling being associated with the Rabbitohs.[89]
In May 2011, Crowe helped arrange to have Fox broadcast the 2011 State of Origin series live for the first time in the United States, in addition to the NRL Grand Final.[90]
In November 2012 the South Sydney Rabbitohs confirmed that Russell Crowe was selling his 37.5 percent stake in the club.[91]
At the Rabbitohs Annual General Meeting on 3 March 2013, Chairman Nick Pappas claimed Crowe "would not be selling his shareholding in the short-to-medium term and at this stage has no intention of selling at all".[92]

text: Crowe was a guest presenter at the 2013 Dally M Awards[93] and presented the prestigious Dally M Medal to winner Cooper Cronk.[94] Russell was present at the 2014 NRL Grand Final when the Rabbitohs won the NRL premiership for the first time in 43 years.[95]

text: Other sporting interests[edit]

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Crowe watches and plays cricket, and captained the 'Australian' Team containing Steve Waugh against an English side in the 'Hollywood Ashes' Cricket Match.[96] On 17 July 2009 Crowe took to the commentary box for the British sports channel, Sky Sports, as the 'third man' during the second Test of the 2009 Ashes series, between England and Australia.[97] He is friends with Lloyd Carr, the former coach of the University of Michigan Wolverines American football team, and Carr used Crowe's movie Cinderella Man to motivate his 2006 team following a 7–5 season the previous year. Upon hearing of this, Crowe called Carr and invited him to Australia to address his Rugby league team, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, which Carr did the following summer. In September 2007, after Carr came under fire following the Wolverines' 0–2 start, Crowe travelled to Ann Arbor, Michigan for the Wolverines' 15 September game against Notre Dame to show his support for Carr. He addressed the team before the game and watched from the sidelines as the Wolverines defeated the Irish 38–0.[citation needed]
Crowe is also a fan of the National Football League. On 22 October 2007, Crowe appeared in the booth of a Monday night game between the Indianapolis Colts and the Jacksonville Jaguars.[98]

text: Filmography and awards[edit]

text: Crowe has appeared in 43 films and three television series since his career began in 1985. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Gladiator (2000) and was nominated twice more for The Insider (1999) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), making him the ninth actor to receive three consecutive Academy Award nominations.[4] He has also received five Golden Globe Award nominations (winning one), three BAFTA Award nominations (winning one), and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (winning one).