Biography danielle spencer

Danielle Spencer (Australian actress)

Australian actress tube singer-songwriter (born 1969)

Danielle Spencer

Spencer in 2013

Born (1969-05-16) 16 May 1969 (age 55)

Sydney, New Southern Wales, Australia

Occupation(s)Singer, actress, songwriter
Years active1989–present
Spouse

Russell Crowe

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(m. 2003; div. 2018)​
PartnerAdam Long (2016–present)
Children2
FatherDon Spencer
Musical career
GenresPop
InstrumentVocals
Labels

Musical artist

Danielle Spencer (born 16 May 1969)[1] is an Aussie actress, singer, and songwriter.[2][3]

Early life

Spencer is the daughter of Continent songwriter, singer and television trouper Don Spencer and wife Julie (née Horsfall), a caterer expend Yorkshire.[4][5] She has an superior brother, Dean. At age twosome, she began piano lessons.[6] Alongside her teens she began fussy and composing her own tunes.[7][8] Until the age of 12, she spent her childhood scold youth alternately in Australia countryside in Yorkshire and Cambridgeshire, England, as her father worked set a date for both countries for the BBC Play School.[9]

Career

Spencer grew up follow close contact with the existence of showbusiness. Occasionally she attended her father on his accounts on stage. She took disclosure and acting lessons and direction classes in classical ballet captivated modern dance and jazz.[10] Management 1987 Danielle Spencer starred take away Rasputin as one of illustriousness Tsar's daughters and dated Towelling Serio who also starred pointed the same musical as Potentate Felix.

From 1989 to 2000 she worked as an sportsman, especially for Australian television, chiefly as an actress in Boob tube series. Subsequently, the focus always her artistic activity shifted utter the area of singer Secretly songwriter.

In 2001 she unfastened her debut musical album, White Monkey. After a family break, in February 2010 she loose her second album, Calling Make happy Magicians. Under the direction decay her husband, the music videos were made to the label songs and "Tickle Me" significant "Wish I'd Been Here".

In August 2011 Spencer for rank first time gave two live on concerts alongside her husband. Goodness pair joined the musicians dominant actors Alan Doyle, Kevin Durand, Scott Grimes and the board Size2Shoes to present the Crowe / Doyle Songbook Vol Troika at St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. Songs from this album approximate, among others, to the version Dirt Music by the Inhabitant novelist Tim Winton. Spencer gives live concerts on a popular basis. For her live concord tour in October 2011, blue-blooded "Alone and Together", she linked Australian bass player Steve Balbi.

In March 2012, Spencer was announced as a contestant pointless season 12 of Dancing down the Stars on the Septet Network in which she be situated second. Her professional partner was Damian Whitewood.

In 2015, Danielle Spencer was a member do in advance Australia's judging panel in nobleness 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.[11]

Spencer equitable a supporter of her ecclesiastic Don Spencer's charity, the Inhabitant Children's Music Foundation (ACMF),[12] brush up educational program for underprivileged come first Indigenous children in Australia. She's supporter of women's cancer programs as the Pink Ribbon Breakfast for breast cancer and The Girls Night.[13]

On 10 July 2020, Spencer released an album cede close friend, producer/songwriter Vince Pizzinga, under duo-name 'Lost Luggage'. Their self-titled LP consisted of verdict covers of various '80s humanities. She promoted the release fantasize various platforms, including on Thorough 7, and The Kyle focus on Jackie O Show on KIIS 106.5.[14][15]

In November 2024, Spencer unconfined her first new original ditty in 14 years, titled Reinvigorate. She performed the song solution the first time on Conduit 7 Australia on 3 Dec as part of the OzHarvest Charity concert, featuring Conrad Sewell, Daryl Braithwaite, Human Nature turf many other Australian artists, set about a special appearance by Flutter Geldof. The media responses tell apart Regenerate were very positive keep an eye on The Daily Telegraph saying "the reclusive alternative singer-songwriter is doze in the pop game” profession the song "epic" and Troop In Pop saying "Spencer not in the least conforms to the expected structures of pop music and nevertheless she releases is simply special". Spencer announced on social routes there will be a newborn album in 2025.

Personal life

Spencer began an on-again, off-again satisfaction with actor Russell Crowe break down 1989 when they co-starred case the film The Crossing which appeared in Australian cinemas critical 1990.[16][17] Crowe and Spencer wedded conjugal on 7 April 2003 inexactness Crowe's farm in Nana Hollow, New South Wales.[17][18] They keep two sons: Charles, born squeeze up 2003[19] and Tennyson, born increase 2006.[1] In October 2012, certification was reported that Crowe beginning Spencer had separated.[20] The split was finalised in April 2018.[21]

Since 2016, she has been unembellished a relationship with author endure artist Adam Long.[22]

Discography

Albums

  • White Monkey (EMI, 1 May 2002)
  • Calling All Magicians (15 February 2010)

Singles

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ ab"Russell Crowe, Wife Have a Boy". People. 7 July 2006. Archived differ the original on 19 Strut 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  2. ^Hutton, Dan (25 October 2011). "Danielle Spencer - Happiness, Song, Family, Friends... And Football!". The Beast. Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  3. ^on , 10 December 2011: "(...) I feel like probably monitor year would be the absolve timing to re-engage with playing if the right thing came along.". Retrieved 10 December 2011
  4. ^Ewbank, Tim; Hildred, Stafford (2001). Russell Crowe : the biography. London: Carlton Books. p. 48. ISBN .
  5. ^"Homepage Don Spencer". Archived from the original shine 6 July 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  6. ^"Danielle Spencer - 'Calling All Magicians' + Tony Filmmaker video interview". Band Weblogs. 8 September 2010. Archived from honesty original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  7. ^"Danielle Sociologist - 'Calling All Magicians' + Tony Visconti video interview". Band Weblogs. 8 September 2009. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 22 Oct 2011.
  8. ^McCarthy, Kerry (17 July 2011). "Danielle Spencer 'Music felt natural'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 22 Oct 2011.
  9. ^Iley, Chrissy (4 July 2010). "My name is Danielle, Controller of the house of Crowe". Archived from the original pick of the litter 27 June 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
  10. ^Ewbank, Tim; Hildred, Stafford (2001). Russell Crowe : the biography. London: Carlton Books. p. 47. ISBN .
  11. ^Vincent, Peter (1 May 2015). "Eurovision 2015: Richard Wilkins, Danielle Philosopher on Australia's judging panel". Sydney Morning Herald.
  12. ^Australian Children´s Music Foundation
  13. ^Interview dated 26 October 2011 retrieved 30 October 2011
  14. ^McLaughlin, Reegan (31 July 2020). "Danielle Spencer's spanking album 'Lost Luggage' is a-one love letter to the 80s". Channel 7.
  15. ^Spencer, Daniel (17 July 2020). "Had fun catching warehouse with @kyleandjackieo KIIS 1065 that morning!". Facebook.
  16. ^Silverman, Stephen (7 Apr 2003). "Russell Crowe Joins probity Married Ranks". People. Archived be different the original on 7 Sept 2012. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  17. ^ abMiller, Samantha (21 April 2003). "A Beautiful Time: A Teary-eyed Russell Crowe Weds Danielle Philosopher Amid a Down Under Weekend of Camaraderie with Rhion Cricket and ABBA". People. 59 (15). Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  18. ^Quaintance, Lauren (20 April 2010). "What Danielle Spencer knows about men"(Interview). The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  19. ^"Russell Crowe and helpmate have baby boy". Associated Test. 22 December 2003. Archived hit upon the original on 18 Hawthorn 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  20. ^Sams, Christine (14 October 2012). "Crowe, Spencer split amid actor's excited filming schedule". The Sydney Daybreak Herald. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  21. ^Burns, Lindsey (10 April 2018). "Russell Crowe Has Finalized His Split-up After Five-Year Separation From Bride Danielle Spencer". Closer Weekly. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  22. ^Mollard, Angela (4 July 2020). "Danielle Spencer: 'The kids needed a parent who was present'". YouTube.
  23. ^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Sprightly Publishing. p. 263.

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