Crowe, Wife Welcome Arrival of Second Son

Jul 7, 6:51 AM EST


The Associated Press

SYDNEY, Australia -- Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe's wife Danielle Spencer gave birth to their second child on Friday, his Australian manager said. Tennyson Spencer Crowe was born at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital weighing about 8 pounds, Crowe's manager Grant Vandenberg said.

"Mother, father and baby are doing extremely well," he said.

It is the second child for the celebrity couple, and a brother for their firstborn, 2-year-old Charlie.

Crowe — who won an Oscar for his role in the 2000 film "Gladiator" — married Spencer in a star-studded Australian wedding in 2003.

Crowe, who was born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, had said he planned to be in the delivery room with a video camera when the baby was born.

The 42-year-old actor has said fatherhood changed his life.

"I'm very involved in being a dad," Crowe told the television show "Entertainment Tonight" in May last year. "My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that."

Crowe made headlines last year when he was arrested for throwing a phone at a New York hotel concierge. He pleaded guilty to third-degree assault last November and was sentenced to a conditional discharge, meaning he must not get arrested for one year.

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