Billy Crudup

American actor (born 1968)Template:SHORTDESC:American actor (born 1968)

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**William Gaither Crudup** (English pronunciation: **Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".**; born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his performance in *Jesus' Son* (1999). He went on to star in numerous high-profile films, including *Almost Famous* (2000), *Big Fish* (2003), *Mission: Impossible III* (2006), *Watchmen* (2009), *Public Enemies* (2009), *The Stanford Prison Experiment* (2015), *Jackie* (2016), and *Alien: Covenant* (2017), in both lead and supporting roles.

Crudup is a four-time Tony Award nominee, winning once for his performance in Tom Stoppard's play *The Coast of Utopia* in 2007. He has also starred in the streaming television series *Gypsy* (2017), *The Morning Show* (2019), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award, and *Hello Tomorrow!* (2023).

## Early life

Crudup was born in Manhasset, New York. His parents, Georgann (née Gaither) and Thomas Henry Crudup III divorced during his childhood, and later remarried, before divorcing a second time. Crudup has spoken of his late father, who died in 2005, as an "incessant gambler and hustler salesman" who continuously sought "to hit the jackpot" throughout his life.

On his father's side, he is a descendant of Congressman Josiah Crudup of North Carolina. His maternal grandfather was William Cotter "Billy" Gaither, Jr., a well-known Florida trial lawyer, and his maternal grandmother later remarried to Episcopal bishop James Duncan.

The middle-born of three brothers, Crudup's brothers, Tommy and Brooks, are both producers. He left New York with his family when he was about eight years old, first living in Texas, then in Florida. He graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1986.

Crudup attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received an undergraduate degree, and he continued his passion for acting with the undergraduate acting company, LAB! Theatre. He also acted for UNC-STV's most popular show, General College. He was a member of the Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He then studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts graduate acting program, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1994.

## Career

### Film and television

Crudup began acting in films such as 1996's *Sleepers*, 1997's *Inventing the Abbotts*, and 1998's *Without Limits*, where he played the role of running legend and Olympian Steve Prefontaine. His first role in an animated feature was in 1999's English release of *Princess Mononoke*, in which he starred as Ashitaka. He then played lead guitarist Russell Hammond from Stillwater, the fictional band at the center of Cameron Crowe's *Almost Famous* (2000). In 2006's *The Good Shepherd,* he played British spy Arch Cummings, a stand-in for Kim Philby. The same year, he played a supporting role in *Mission: Impossible III*. In 2007, he played the leading role of Henry Roth in the film *Dedication*.

Crudup completed filming *Watchmen* with director Zack Snyder in Vancouver, British Columbia. He portrayed the superhero Doctor Manhattan. He portrayed former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner in a TV film about 2008's financial crisis, *Too Big to Fail* (2011). Crudup stars in the Apple TV+ series *The Morning Show*, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2020.

### Stage

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A year after graduating from Tisch, Crudup made his debut on Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Tom Stoppard's *Arcadia*.[*citation needed*]

Crudup received a 2002 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as the title character in *The Elephant Man* on Broadway, as well as a 2005 nomination for his role as Katurian in the Broadway production of *The Pillowman*, also starring Jeff Goldblum, which closed on September 18, 2005. From October 2006 through May 2007, he was featured in the first two parts of *The Coast of Utopia* by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center, playing literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, for which he received a 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

He starred in *The Metal Children*, an off-Broadway play written and directed by Adam Rapp in 2010.

In 2011, Crudup received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of *Arcadia*.

In August 2013, he co-starred with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the Harold Pinter play *No Man's Land* as well as in *Waiting for Godot* at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The shows transferred to The Cort Theatre in New York City, where they ran in repertory until March 2014.

In November 2017, he starred in the world premiere of David Cale's one-man play *Harry Clarke* at Vineyard Theatre. It moved to the Minetta Lane Theatre the following spring.

### Other work

From 1998 to 2005, Crudup was the narrator for the U.S. television ad campaign "Priceless" for Mastercard. In the ads, the narrator (Crudup) lists the prices of two goods or services, then lists some third, intangible benefit gained from those purchases and concludes, "priceless". He said in 2005 that appearing in the ads "changed my life", in that they gave him the financial freedom to pursue the acting work that he wanted to do.

He appeared as Zartan in the 2009 parody video *The Ballad of G.I. Joe* on the website Funny or Die.

## Personal life

From 1996 to November 2003, Crudup was in a relationship with actress Mary-Louise Parker. She was seven months pregnant with their son, William Atticus Parker, born in January 2004, when Crudup ended their relationship and began dating actress Claire Danes. Crudup and Danes separated in 2006. In 2017, Crudup began dating British actress Naomi Watts, after the two met on the set of the Netflix drama series *Gypsy*. The couple married in New York City in June 2023 in a low key ceremony.

## Acting credits

### Television

 2019
 2022
 2023

## Accolades

The following is a list of accolades Crudup has received or been nominated for throughout his film, television and theatre career:

## References

1. ↑ "Birthdays". *The Modesto Bee*. Associated Press. July 8, 2022. p. 2A. Actor Billy Crudup is 54.
2. ↑ "Billy Crudup Biography". *Yahoo! Movies*. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
3. ↑ Evertz, Mary (October 26, 2001). "Crudup family keeps busy in New York Series: PEOPLE". *St. Petersburg Times*. Retrieved May 19, 2010.
4. ↑ "The Miami News – Google News Archive". July 17, 1966. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
5. ↑ Antoinio Ferme (February 16, 2023). "Billy Crudup on How His Father's 'Flawed Sense of Psychology' Inspired His 'Hello Tomorrow!' Character". *variety.com*. Variety. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
6. ↑ "Group works to save historic Crudup home site in Kittrell". Archived from the original on July 18, 2017. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
7. ↑ Jesse Green (October 10, 2004). "Billy Crudup: Almost Infamous". *The New York Times*. Retrieved May 21, 2008.
8. ↑ "Miami Herald: News Archive". Nl.newsbank.com. April 3, 1997. Retrieved June 22, 2012.
9. ↑ *Who's who in the South and Southwest – Marquis Who's Who*. 1959. Retrieved February 11, 2012 – via Google Books.
10. ↑ Kahn, Robert (June 11, 2007). "It's 'Utopia' at the Tony Awards". *Newsday*. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
11. ↑ Dziemianowicz, Joe (May 21, 2010). "New play tries to prove its 'Metal'". *Daily News*. Retrieved June 17, 2021.
12. ↑ "2011 Tony Nominations Announced! THE BOOK OF MORMON Leads With 14!". Broadway World. Retrieved February 11, 2012.
13. ↑ "カードローンの借り入れ条件の年収は重要?". *twoplaysinrep.com*.
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15. ↑ Hill, Logan (May 30, 2005). "Free Billy". *New York*.
16. ↑ Susman, Gary (January 14, 2004). "Mary-Louise Parker names son after Billy Crudup". *Entertainment Weekly*.
17. ↑ Miller, Julie (October 5, 2015). "Claire Danes Opens Up About Billy Crudup/Mary-Louise Parker Scandal". *Vanity Fair*.
18. ↑ Lee, Esther (November 10, 2015). "Mary-Louise Parker Addresses Billy Crudup Leaving Her for Claire Danes". *Us Weekly*.
19. ↑ McKay, Rhys (February 17, 2020). "What Was Naomi Watts' Relationship Like With Liev Schreiber?". *Who*. Retrieved February 7, 2023.
20. ↑ "Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup Are Married: 'Hitched'". *Yahoo! Entertainment*. June 10, 2023. Retrieved June 10, 2023.
21. ↑ Reslin, Eileen; Ryan, Tamantha (11 June 2023). "Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup Tie the Knot in New York City." *News.com.au*. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
22. ↑ Nolfi, Joey (April 1, 2019). "Billy Crudup is a dreamy, delusional 'doctor' in At Home With Amy Sedaris sneak peek". *Entertainment Weekly*. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
23. ↑ 20th Century Fox (February 22, 2017). "Alien: Covenant – Prologue: Last Supper – 20th Century FOX". Archived from the original on October 30, 2021 – via YouTube.
24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 24.7 "Billy Crudup – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". *IBDB*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
25. ↑ "The 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". *Screen Actors Guild Awards*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
26. ↑ "The 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". *Screen Actors Guild Awards*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
27. ↑ Sheehan, Daniel Montgomery,Chris Beachum,Marcus James Dixon,Joyce Eng,Zach Laws,Paul; Montgomery, Daniel; Beachum, Chris; Dixon, Marcus James; Eng, Joyce; Laws, Zach; Sheehan, Paul (September 16, 2020). "2020 Gold Derby TV Awards winners: 'Schitt's' sweeps, 'Succession' succeeds, Reese Witherspoon rules and much more". *GoldDerby*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
28. ↑ "Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series Nominees / Winners 2020". *Television Academy*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
29. ↑ "The 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". *Screen Actors Guild Awards*. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
30. ↑ Lewis, Hilary; Nordyke, Kimberly (July 12, 2022). "2022 Emmy Awards Nominations Revealed". *The Hollywood Reporter*. Retrieved July 12, 2022.

## External links

* Billy Crudup at the Internet Broadway Database
* Template:Str rightmost/ Billy Crudup on IMDb
* Billy Crudup at the Internet Off-Broadway Database