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Crowe was born in Strathmore Park, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand, on 7 April 1964,[3] the son of film set caterers Jocelyn Yvonne (née Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe.[4] His father also managed a hotel. His maternal grandfather, Stan Wemyss, was a cinematographer who was appointed an MBE for filming footage of World War II as a member of the New Zealand Film Unit.[5] Crowe is Māori, and identifies with Ngāti Porou through one of his maternal great-great-grandmothers.[6][4][7] His paternal grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, was a Welsh man from Wrexham, while another of his grandparents was Scottish.[8][9] His other ancestry includes English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish.[10][11][12][6][13] He is a cousin of former New Zealand national cricket captains Martin and Jeff Crowe,[14] and the nephew of cricketer Dave Crowe.[15] Through his paternal grandmother, he is a direct descendant of Simon Fraser, the last man to be beheaded in Britain.[16]