
Billy Crudup
Biography
William Gaither Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. He 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 been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead (along with several other awards nominations) for his performance in Jesus' Son. He received two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations as part of an ensemble cast for Almost Famous and Spotlight, winning for the latter - as well as winning the Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award for the same. He earned two Primetime Emmy Awards (nominated three times); two Critics' Choice Television Awards; a nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film; and three nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series for his performance on the series The Morning Show (2019).
He has starred in numerous high-profile films, including Without Limits, Princess Mononoke, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, Watchmen, Public Enemies, Spotlight, Jackie, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Justice League, and Alien: Covenant, in both lead and supporting roles.
From 1996 to November 2003, he 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 he ended their relationship and began dating actress Claire Danes, their relationship ended in 2006.
In 2017, he began dating actress Naomi Watts, after the two met on the set of the Netflix drama series Gypsy. They married in New York City in June 2023.
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Acting History
2025
Jay Kelly as Timothy
2025Megadoc as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans as Self - Narrator (voice)
2023Hello Tomorrow! as Jack Billings
2022The Last Movie Stars as Self
2022The Last Movie Stars as James Goldstone (voice)
2021Zack Snyder's Justice League as Henry Allen (uncredited)
2019The Morning Show as Cory Ellison
2019Where'd You Go, Bernadette as Elgie
2019After the Wedding as Oscar
2018More Human Than Human as Self
2017Justice League as Henry Allen (uncredited)
2017Alien: Covenant - Master Class: Ridley Scott as Self
2017Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos as Oram
2017Gypsy as Michael Holloway
2017Alien: Covenant as Oram
2017Alien: Covenant - Crew Messages as Oram
20171 Mile To You as Coach K
2017From Jackie to Camelot as Self
2017Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper as Christopher Oram
2017Youth in Oregon as Brian Gleason
201620th Century Women as William
2016Jackie as The Journalist
2015Spotlight as Eric Macleish
2015The Stanford Prison Experiment as Dr. Philip Zimbardo
2014Rudderless as Sam Manning
2014The Longest Week as Dylan Tate
2014Glass Chin as J.J. Cook
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
2013Blood Ties as Frank
2012The Watch as Neighbor
2012Thin Ice as Randy
2011Too Big to Fail as Timothy Geithner
2010Eat Pray Love as Steven
2010Warren the Ape
2009The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics as Self
2009Public Enemies as J. Edgar Hoover
2009Watchmen as Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan
2009Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
2008Pretty Bird as Curtis
2007Dedication as Henry Roth
2007The Sarah Silverman Program. as Self
2006The Good Shepherd as Archibald Cummings
2006Rachael Ray
2006Mission: Impossible III as Musgrave
2005Trust the Man as Tobey
2004The Tony Danza Show as Self - Guest
2004Stage Beauty as Ned Kynaston
2003Big Fish as Will Bloom
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2002World Traveler as Cal
2001Charlotte Gray as Julien Levade
2000Almost Famous as Russell Hammond
2000Jesus' Son as FH
2000Waking the Dead as Fielding Pierce
1998The Hi-Lo Country as Pete Calder
1998Monument Ave. as Teddy
1998Without Limits as Steve Prefontaine
1997Grind as Eddie
1997Inventing the Abbotts as Jacey Holt
1996Everyone Says I Love You as Ken
1996Sleepers as Tommy Marcano
1996The Daily Show as Self
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
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