Billy Crudup
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.5028 |
| Birthday | 1968-07-08 |
| Place of Birth | Manhasset, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | William Crudup, William Gaither Crudup, Μπίλι Κράνταπ, |
2006
Mission: Impossible III
6.766/7657
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2006
The Good Shepherd
6.354/1302
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young...
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The Good Shepherd
1998
The Hi-Lo Country
6.05/100
An intimate story of the enduring bond of friendship between two hard-living men, set against a sweeping backdrop: the American West, post-World War I...
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The Hi-Lo Country
2003
Big Fish
7.756/7803
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2000
Almost Famous
7.501/3121
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone ma...
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1996
Sleepers
7.597/3922
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes pl...
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Sleepers
1998
Monument Ave.
5.769/32
Bobby O'Grady is a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one...
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Monument Ave.
1998
Without Limits
6.616/82
The life of renowned runner Steve Prefontaine and his relationship with legendary coach Bill Bowerman.
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2009
Public Enemies
6.687/4862
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2000
Jesus' Son
6.23/74
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
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1996
Everyone Says I Love You
6.453/718
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
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2001
Charlotte Gray
6.128/187
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2004
Stage Beauty
6.644/147
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1997
Inventing the Abbotts
6.301/266
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2009
Watchmen
7.356/10053
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2008
Pretty Bird
4.9/22
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2007
Dedication
6.375/108
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2005
Trust the Man
5.176/127
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem t...
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2000
Waking the Dead
6.071/105
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
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2010
Eat Pray Love
6.247/2645
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she take...
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Eat Pray Love
2011
Too Big to Fail
6.957/265
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2012
The Watch
5.599/2490
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2012
Thin Ice
6.492/183
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2002
World Traveler
4.1/25
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1997
Grind
5/7
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2013
Blood Ties
6.138/507
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2014
The Longest Week
5.133/309
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2014
Rudderless
7.171/340
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2014
Glass Chin
5/18
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2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment
6.8/997
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2015
Spotlight
7.8/8823
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2009
The Phenomenon: The Comic That Changed Comics
7.5/2
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Jay Kelly
6.178/429
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Youth in Oregon
6.088/40
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2016
20th Century Women
7.319/1238
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2016
Jackie
6.458/2444
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2017
Alien: Covenant
6.177/9474
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1 Mile To You
6.5/219
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The Auction
0/0
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Justice League
6.072/13714
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2019
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
6.58/730
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After the Wedding
6.4/257
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2018
More Human Than Human
5.2/5
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From Jackie to Camelot
7.9/7
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Zack Snyder's Justice League
8.087/10896
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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Phobos
7/13
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American Thunder: NASCAR to Le Mans
6.833/6
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Megadoc
6.5/11
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