Billy Crudup

William “Billy” Crudup (born in Manhasset, New York, July 8, 1968) acted in movies like Inventing the Abbots (1997), Without Limits (1998) by Robert Towne, The Hi-Lo Country (1998) by Stephen Frears, Almost Famous (2000) by Cameron Crowe, Charlotte Gray (2001) by Gilliam Armstrong with Cate Blanchett, Big Fish (2003) by Tim Burton, Stage Beauty (2004) with Claire Danes, Public Enemies (2009) by Michael Mann, Eat Pray Love (2010) with Julia Roberts, Spotlight (2015) by Tom McCarthy, Jackie (2016) by Pablo Larraín with Natalie Portman, 20th Century Women (2016) by Mike Mills, After the Wedding (2019) by Bart Freundlich with Julianne Moore, Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019) by Richard Linklater. On television, he has acted in The Morning Show with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and in Apple TV’s Hello Tomorrow! (2023). Crudup made his motion picture debut in Barry Levinson’s Sleepers, opposite Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt and Jason Patric; he also starred in Without Limits, the story of famed long distance runner Steven Prefontaine. Crudup also starred in Cameron Crowe’s  “Almost Famous” along with Frances McDormand and Kate Hudson. On stage, Crudup most recently starred in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of “Ibsen’s Ghosts.” Additionally, he recently reprised his role in the one-man play “Harry Clarke” at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End, following a limited engagement at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Crudup starred in the repertory productions of “No Man’s Land” and “Waiting for Godot” on Broadway, opposite Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Shuler Hensley. In 2007, Crudup won a Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actor for his role in the Broadway production of “The Coast of Utopia.”