Danielle Spencer (Australian actress)

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Danielle Spencer

Born	May 16, 1970 (1970-05-16) (age 38) United Kingdom
Occupation	Singer, Television actor
Spouse(s)	Russell Crowe (2003 - present)

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Danielle Spencer (born May 16, 1970) is an English-born Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of Australian television presenter Don Spencer.

Danielle is best known for being married to movie star Russell Crowe. Danielle and Russell married on his 39th Birthday (April 7) in 2003 and have two sons, Charles Spencer Crowe, born 21 December 2003 and Tennyson Spencer Crowe (named after the famous English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson), born 7 July 2006.

1987 Danielle then 21years old (her date of birth is often questioned) stared in the musical 'Rasputin'.The musical was written/composed by David Tydd, and directed by the talented Stephen Hopkins aka Highlander movies at the infamous State Theatre in Sydney. Unfortunately the musical closed the same year due to the stock market crash. Due to connections via her father Don Spencer (Play School ABC) who also had a hand in the rasputin production team she landed the role of one of the Tsars daughters and was also a member of the chorus. At the time she was dating Terry Serio (40's) who was Tsar Nicholas cousin and assassin of the main character Rasputin.

During the 1990s she had several roles in Australian soap operas, using the work to raise funds to demo and produce her original compositions.

In 2001, Danielle released her debut album "White Monkey". Reviews likened her musical style to Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Portishead, noting that it was territory as yet unmined in the Australian musical soundscape.^{[citation needed]} Unfortunately, the album was not provided publicity by EMI beyond Danielle's tabloid appearances (due to the Crowe connection) and was commercially unsuccessful.^{[citation needed]}

"White Monkey" contained the singles:

Jonathon White
Blast Off
Forgive Me
White Monkey
Tickle Me (for which Russell Crowe directed the video clip.)

Back At The Red Door, the second album, is being independently released in 2007, and contains the track "The Broken Ones".

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