New Zealand-born Hollywood actor Russell Crowe began his performing career as a musician in the early-1980s, when he performed under the stage name 'Russ Le Roq'. He released several New Zealand singles including “I Just Want To Be Like Marlon Brando”. Crowe and friend Billy Dean Cochran formed a band which later evolved into the Australian rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts (abbreviated to TOFOG) in 1992. Crowe performed lead vocals and guitar for the band. The band released three full length records, “Gaslight” (1998), “Bastard Life or Clarity” (2001) and “Other Ways of Speaking” (2003). In 2005, he began collaboration with Alan Doyle and formed a new band, The Ordinary Fear of God. The band has an album titled “My Hand, My Heart” to its credit.