Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup was born in Manhasset, New York, United States on April 8th, 1968 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 56, Billy Crudup biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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William Gaither Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor.
He has been nominated for four years for his role in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia in 2007.
He has appeared in numerous high-profile films, including Without Limits, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, Public Enemies, Spotlight, Jackie, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Justice League, and Alien: Covenant in both lead and supporting roles.
He appeared in the Netflix original series Gypsy opposite Naomi Watts.
He has been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and a Screen Actor Guild Award. Crudup was the narrator of "Priceless," a MasterCard television commercial campaign in the United States.
Early life
Crudup was born in Manhasset, New York, and the New York Times was published. Georgann (née Gaither) and Thomas Henry Crudup III divorced during his youth and later remarried before divorcing for the second time. He is a descendant of North Carolina Congressman Josiah Crudup. William Cotter "Billy" Gaither, Jr., a well-known Florida trial prosecutor, and his maternal grandmother married Episcopal Bishop James Duncan, Jr. Crudup's second brother, Tommy, is an executive producer, and Brooks, a producer. When he was eight years old, he and his family left New York, first living in Texas and then Florida. In 1986, he graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Crudup obtained an undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and he continued his interest in acting with the undergraduate acting company, LAB. The theater is a stage. He has appeared on UNC-STV's most popular program, GM's General College. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon's Beta Chapter. He then attended the Tisch School of the Arts graduate acting program at New York University, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1994.
Personal life
Crudup was in a relationship with actress Mary-Louise Parker from 1996 to November 2003. Parker was seven months pregnant with their son, who was born in January 2004, when Crudup broke up with them and started dating actress Claire Danes. In 2006, Crudup and Danes were separated. Naomi Watts was dating Crudup in October 2017.
Career
Crudup first appeared in films such as Sleepers, 1997's Inventing the Abbotts, and 1998's Without Limits, where he starred in the role of running legend and Olympian Steve Prefontaine. In 1999's English release of Princess Mononoke, in which he appeared as Ashitaka, he was his first appearance in an animated film. Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist from Stillwater, Cameron Crowe's fictional band at the forefront of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000), appeared in his later years. He appeared in The Good Shepherd, a stand-in for Kim Philby, in 2006. He appeared in Mission: Impossible III the same year. In 2007, he appeared in Henry Roth's leading role in the film Dedication.
In Vancouver, British Columbia, Crudup produced Watchmen with director Zack Snyder. He portrayed Doctor Manhattan as the superhero Doctor Manhattan. In a TV film about 2008's financial crisis titled Too Big to Fail (2011), he portrayed former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Crudup stars in the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award in 2020.
Crudup made his debut on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia's Lincoln Center Theater production a year after graduating from Tisch.
Crudup's 2002 Tony Award nomination for his role 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, starring Jeff Goldblum, which closed on September 18, 2005. He appeared in the first two parts of The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center, playing literary critic Vissarion Belinsky, for which he was named Best Featured Actor in a Play in 2007.
In 2010, Adam Rapp wrote and directed The Metal Children, an off-Broadway play written and directed by him.
In 2011, Crudup received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play for his role in Arcadia's revival.
He co-starred in No Man's Land alongside Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in the Harold Pinter play No Man's Land in August 2013 as well as Waiting for Godot at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The plays were transferred to The Cort Theatre in New York City, where they were in repertory until March 2014.
In November 2017, he appeared in the world premiere of David Cale's one-man play Harry Clarke at Vineyard Theatre. The following spring, it was relocated to the Minetta Lane Theatre.
Crudup was the narrator for Mastercard's television commercial campaign "Priceless" from 1998 to 2005. The narrator (Crudup) lists the prices of two products or services in the ads, then lists some third, intangible gain from those purchases, and concludes with "priceless." In 2005, he said that being in the ads "changed my life" in that they gave him the opportunity to pursue the acting career he desired to pursue.
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