A HOLLYWOOD superstar revealed his family hail from Wrexham when he commented on the takeover of the town's beloved football club by actors Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds.

Gladiator star Russell Crowe tweeted that his grandfather was born in Wrexham when he shared the news yesterday.

Actors and producers Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney became the new owners of Wrexham AFC on Monday after their takeover bid was approved by the National League club’s Supporters Trust.

Wrexham Supporters Trust members voted 98.6% in favour to accept the offer of Deadpool star Reynolds and fellow actor McElhenney, who told them last week that they plan to turn the Welsh football club into a “global force” .

Russell may have some tip for Ryan and Rob as he has experience of owning a sports team.

Raised in Sydney, the film star bought the South Sydney Rabbitohs along with businessman Peter Holmes a Court in 2006. Holmes a Court stood down two years later amid rumours of a rift with Crowe, who remains involved with the rugby league club.

And in 2010, the New Zealand actor came to Wales to film Robin Hood.

Much of the film was shot in the spectacular scenery of Wales, not far from the place that the actor’s ancestors once called home.

Crowe is actually descended from a prominent family who lived and worked in Wrexham.

The Oscar winner’s great grandfather, Frederick William Crowe, lived at 13 Salisbury Road in the town until 1925 when he, his wife Kezia Marie and 12 of his children emigrated to Canada.

Russell’s grandfather, John Doubleday Crowe, however, remained in North Wales to run the family business, a greengrocer’s shop, which became a very well known fruit and vegetable wholesale business called Crofruit.

When John’s elder brother Frank returned to run the shop in Wrexham, John emigrated to New Zealand where he married and had two children, David and Alex, Russell’s father.

Russell was born in New Zealand in 1964 and moved with his family to Australia when he was a child. He would go on to become one of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Frank stayed on and had his own family, and his descendants still live in Wrexham today.

In 2013, a search was launched in Wrexham to track down the long lost relatives of Russell Crowe to coincide with a screening of Les Misérables, a film adaptation of the 1980s musical based on Victor Hugo’s 19th-century novel, at Wrexham’s Odeon Cinema in Eagles Meadow.