Gladiator star Russell Crowe said
Wednesday he was seeking his Italian roots and had an ancestor
who was from Ascoli Piceno in southern Marche.
The Hollywood actor, who was born in New Zealand and grew up in
Australia, said on X:
"I've been on the hunt to track down my Italian forebears for
quite some time. Folkloric family tales and misspelling had seen
me travel on a number of wrong tracks.
"Turns out my great great great grandfather, on my mother's
side, who travelled to NZ in 1864 was Luigi Ghezzi. Born in 1829
in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, the son of Augestine (sic) &
Annunziata born in Parma.
"Luigi had been working in Argentina, took a boat to India , was
shipwrecked, and ended up in Capetown. While there he met and
married Mary Ann Curtain and they migrated to NZ."
Crowe, 59, is fronting Rome's bid for the 2030 Expo to the
catchphrase "at my signal unleash humanity" echoing one of his
first iconic phrases from his Roman empire hit.
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