New Zealand-born Australian actor Russell Crowe was BOTD in 1964. Born in Wellington, he was raised in Australia before returning to New Zealand in his teens, where he launched his career as New Romantic pop singer called Russ Le Roq. His single I Just Wanna Be Like Marlon Brando failed to chart, and he returned to Australia to pursue an acting career. He had a lovely role as a rugby-playing gay man in the 1994 Australian film The Sum of Us – a credit later left off his CV as he became a Hollywood leading man. His international breakthrough came playing brooding alpha-males in LA Confidential, the swords-and-sandals epic Gladiator (for which he won an Oscar) and a corporate whistleblower in The Insider. His role as mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind was queer-washed to remove any suggestions of Nash’s bisexuality. His career went off the boil in the 2010s, replaced by the Hemsworths as Hollywood’s preferred Aussie rough trade. Crowe was married to Danielle Spencer, with whom he has two children. In recent years, he played a father who sent his teenaged gay son to conversion therapy in Boy, Erased. The ferocity with which Crowe performs his heterosexuality, on- and off-screen, has failed to stifle rumours about his possible bisexuality, many dating from his teenage years.