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Highest Rated: 97% Spotlight (2015)

Lowest Rated: 11% The Longest Week (2014)

Birthday: Jul 8, 1968

Birthplace: Manhasset, New York, USA

Though he always had the potential to be one of the bigger movie stars of his day, actor Billy Crudup eschewed the limelight for focus on playing complex characters in moody independent films. In fact, Crudup's intensity and his ability to disappear into character marked him as a highly gifted actor, though this same ability often played against the conventional wisdom for his becoming a movie star. He turned in strong and potentially star-making turns in more conventional features like "Without Limits" (1998) and "The Hi-Lo Country" (1998). Even when success eluded him when he was rock guitarist Russell Hammond in Cameron Crowe's well-received "Almost Famous" (2000), Crudup seemed to relish the freedom of not being a household name. That started to change with higher profile turns in "Big Fish" (2003), "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006), the highly anticipated "Watchmen" (2009) and the acclaimed made-for-cable television movie "Too Big to Fail" (HBO, 2011), all of which threatened to turn Crudup into a star, whether he wanted to be or not.

Highest rated movies

97% Spotlight 91% Almost Famous 90% Snitch 88% Jackie 88% 20th Century Women 86% Glass Chin 84% The Stanford Prison Experiment 80% Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

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DEDICATION, Tom Wilkinson, Billy Crudup, 2007. ©Weinstein Company WYGB_03896_REmma Nelson stars as Bee Branch and Billy Crudup as Elgie Branch in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WYGB_01218_RCCate Blanchett stars as Bernadette Fox and Billy Crudup as Elgie Branch in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WYGB_FP1880_R3Billy Crudup stars as Elgie Branch, Emma Nelson as Bee Branch and Cate Blanchett as Bernadette Fox in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Annapurna Pictures WYGB_03423_RCBilly Crudup stars as Elgie Branch and Emma Nelson as Bee Branch in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WYGB_03170_RCate Blanchett stars as Bernadette Fox, Emma Nelson as Bee Branch and Billy Crudup as Elgie Branch in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WYGB_01675_RCBilly Crudup stars as Elgie Branch in Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WYGB_01173_RCActor Cate Blanchett, writer/director Richard Linklater and actor Billy Crudup on the set of his film WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE, an Annapurna Pictures release.Credit: Wilson Webb / Annapurna Pictures WITHOUT LIMITS, Billy Crudup (mustache), 1998, © Warner Brothers WITHOUT LIMITS, from left: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, 1998, © Warner Brothers DEDICATION, Billy Crudup, Mandy Moore, 2007. ©Weinstein Company DEDICATION, Mandy Moore, Billy Crudup, 2007. ©Weinstein Company WORLD TRAVELER, Billy Crudup, 2002. ©ThinkFilm WORLD TRAVELER, Nicholas Suretzky, Billy Crudup, Francie Swift, 2002. ©ThinkFilm SLEEPERS, Billy Crudup, 1997 CHARLOTTE GRAY, Billy Crudup, 2001, (c)Warner Bros. ALMOST FAMOUS, Noah Taylor, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Fairuza Balk, Jason Lee, Anna Paquin, Mark Kozelek, Olivia Rosewood, John Fedevich, 2000. WITHOUT LIMITS, Billy Crudup, 1998, © Warner Brothers ALMOST FAMOUS, (front to back) Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Mark Kozelek, John Fedevich, 2000. Fictional rock band Stillwater. Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Crudup, 01/26/2003, ©ABC

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
16% 62% Die in a Gunfight Narrator - 2021
51% 74% Where'd You Go, Bernadette Elgie (Character) $9.2M 2019
45% 76% After the Wedding Oscar (Character) $1.6M 2019
65% 55% Alien: Covenant Oram (Character) $74.2M 2017
No Score Yet 64% 1 Mile to You Coach K (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alien: Covenant -- Prologue: Last Supper Christopher Oram (Character) - 2017
45% 47% Youth in Oregon Brian Gleason (Character) - 2016
88% 60% Jackie The Journalist (Character) $14.0M 2016
88% 74% 20th Century Women William (Character) $5.7M 2016
97% 93% Spotlight Eric MacLeish (Character) $45.0M 2015
84% 75% The Stanford Prison Experiment Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Character) $643.6K 2015
86% 44% Glass Chin J.J. Cook (Character) - 2014
64% 83% Rudderless Sam (Character) $56.0K 2014
11% 21% The Longest Week Dylan Tate (Character) - 2014
80% 84% Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon William Miller (archive footage) (Character) $211.8K 2013
53% 39% Blood Ties Frank (Character) $41.2K 2013
77% 75% Too Big to Fail Timothy Geithner (Character) - 2011
70% 51% Thin Ice Randy Kinney (Character) $789.8K 2011
35% 42% Eat Pray Love Stephen (Character) $80.6M 2010
68% 59% Public Enemies J. Edgar Hoover (Character) $97.0M 2009
65% 71% Watchmen Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan (Character) $107.5M 2009
20% 16% Pretty Bird Curtis Prentiss (Character) - 2008
40% 64% Dedication Henry Roth (Character) $91.2K 2007
56% 51% The Good Shepherd Arch Cummings (Character) $59.9M 2006
71% 69% Mission: Impossible III John Musgrave (Character) $133.4M 2006
29% 35% Trust the Man Tobey (Character) $1.5M 2005
64% 78% Stage Beauty Ned Kynaston (Character) $776.7K 2004
75% 89% Big Fish Will Bloom (Character) $66.3M 2003
34% 36% World Traveler Cal (Character) $98.0K 2001
33% 62% Charlotte Gray Julien (Character) $668.1K 2001
91% 92% Almost Famous Russell Hammond (Character) $32.5M 2000
50% 77% Waking the Dead Fielding Pierce (Character) $327.4K 2000
79% 83% Jesus' Son FH (Character) $1.3M 1999
90% 67% Snitch Teddy (Character) $332.4K 1998
54% 48% The Hi-Lo Country Pete Calder (Character) $163.8K 1998
79% 91% Without Limits Steve Prefontaine (Character) $777.4K 1998
36% 51% Inventing the Abbotts Jacey Holt (Character) $5.9M 1997
93% 94% Princess Mononoke Ash*taka (Voice) - 1997
No Score Yet 72% Grind Eddie Dolan (Character) - 1996
73% 85% Sleepers Tommy Marcano (Character) $53.3M 1996

TV

Credit
66% 32% The Morning Show Cory Ellison (Character) 2019 2021 2023
54% 72% Hello Tomorrow! Jack Billings (Character),
Executive Producer
2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Your Roots Guest 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rachael Ray Guest 2009 2014 2016-2017 2019 2021 2023
No Score Yet 9% The View Guest 2015 2023
No Score Yet 36% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2012 2014 2017 2023
100% 80% The Last Movie Stars Unknown (Character) 2022
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2016-2019 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2019
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2019
40% 84% Gypsy Michael Holloway (Character) 2017
No Score Yet 19% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2009-2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2004 2009
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