SYDNEY, Australia - Russell Crowe (news), star of 'A Beautiful Mind,' now is the father of a beautiful child.
His wife, Danielle Spencer (news), gave birth to Charles Spencer Crowe Sunday night. The baby weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces, Crowe's Australian publicist, Wendy Day, told Australian Associated Press.
Crowe married Spencer, a 32-year-old singer, April 7 at his sprawling rural property of Nana Glen near the east Australian beach resort town of Coffs Harbour.
The 39-year-old actor, who won an Oscar for 'Gladiator,' was nominated for a Golden Globe Award last week for 'Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.'
If Crowe is nominated for an Academy Award, he'll skip the Oscars (news - web sites) ceremony to stay at home and change his son's diapers, said his father-in-law, Don Spencer. 'That's what he says, I think he'll be a fantastic dad ... he's over the moon.'
'It was very hard to get the baby from him actually,' Spencer told Australia's Nine Network. 'We kept saying, `Has anyone else got a chance of holding this baby Russell?' He said, `I'm bonding, I'm bonding.''