Italian blood flows in the veins of Russell Crowe. With a tweet on X, the New Zealand actor and director published his research on his genealogical tree, from which an ancestor from Marche also emerged. The man, born in 1829 in Ascoli Piceno, after traveling the world, would have settled in New Zealand, where he would have built a family.
The Discovery
Russell Crowe is a bit Italian and now he can officially announce it with pride. The actor born in New Zealand on April 7, 1964, published on X the results of the research carried out on the origins of his family. And in the Gladiator's genealogical tree, Italian DNA also emerged: "I have been trying to trace my Italian ancestors for a long time. Folkloric family stories and spelling errors had led me down the wrong track. It turns out that my great-great-grandfather on my mother's side, who traveled to New Zealand in 1864, was named Luigi Ghezzi. Born in 1829 in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, son of Augustine and Annunziata, born in Parma. Luigi had worked in Argentina, took a ship to India, was shipwrecked and ended up in Cape Town" in South Africa. "While there he met and married Mary Ann Curtain and they migrated to NZ."
"So now we have information on Norwegian, Italian, several Scottish and Maori origins. But one thing comes out strange: a DNA test of close relatives shows an Irish prevalence, but we don't know on how/who", he reveals again. Is there more? Of course. "In my mother's family, 3 generations away, there have been women married to men named Crowe. Some people have come to me to tell me we are related and I have been a bit skeptical thinking I knew every member of the Crowe family, but I am also related to another Crowe line that seems to have lived in Australia at the beginning."
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