He came to international attention for his role as Roman General Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, for which he 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 ten further nominations for Best Actor. He was educated at the Sydney Boys High School. He then continued his secondary education at Mount Roskill Grammar School, which he left at the age sixteen to pursue his ambitions and childhood dreams of becoming a successful actor. He repeated this performance in a further Australian production of the show. 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. in 1992, Crowe starred in the first episode of the second series of Police Rescue. He co-starred with Denzel Washington in Virtuosity and with Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead in 1995. Crowe was awarded the (Australian) Centenary Medal in 2001 for “service to Australian society and Australian film production.” Crowe received three consecutive best actor Oscar nominations, for The Insider, Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind.

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