Billy Crudup

Equally memorable on the stage and screen, Billy Crudup has earned critical accolades throughout his career for his consistently lauded performances.

Crudup made his motion picture debut in Barry Levinson's Sleepers, opposite Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt and Jason Patric, followed by Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, and Pat O'Connor's Inventing the Abbotts. Crudup played the leading role in critically acclaimed Without Limits, the story of legendary long distance runner Steven Prefontaine, for which he won the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year.

He then starred in the critically acclaimed Jesus' Son opposite Samantha Morton, Holly Hunter and Denis Leary, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination, and he reunited with Jennifer Connelly in the acclaimed Waking the Dead. Crudup also starred in Cameron Crowe's Academy Award®-winning Almost Famous along with Frances McDormand and Kate Hudson.

Crudup's other film credits include: William H. Macy's directorial debut Rudderless, Guillaume Canet's Blood Ties opposite Clive Owen, the box office hit Eat Pray Love starring alongside Julia Roberts, Javier Bardem, and James Franco; Michael Mann's Public Enemies alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale; Zack Synder's Watchmen opposite Patrick Wilson; Charlotte Gray opposite Cate Blanchett; Tim Burton's fantasy tale, Big Fish, also starring Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, and Albert Finney; Stage Beauty opposite Claire Danes; Trust the Man with Julianne Moore; J.J. Abrams' Mission Impossible 3 opposite Tom Cruise; and Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd alongside Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie.

Crudup can be seen on screen starring alongside Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano in Stanford Prison Experiment which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January 2015. The story is based on the landmark experiment conducted at Stanford University in the summer of 1971, when randomly chosen 19 and 20-year-old students were divided into experimental camps of either prison guards or prisoners. What was to be a two-week experiment was cut short after six days because of the level of cruelty and sadism that erupted among the participants.

Crudup starred in Spotlight, a thriller based on the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese starring alongside Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and Liev Schreiber.

In 2007, Crudup won a "Best Performance by a Featured Actor" Tony for his role in the Broadway production of The Coast of Utopia. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in The Elephant Man, The Pillowman and Arcadia. He recently starred in 2 Plays in Rep on Broadway: No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot, opposite Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Shuler Hensley.

He made his Broadway debut as Septimus Hodge in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, directed by Trevor Nunn, which won him several awards, including the Outer Critics Circle Award for "Outstanding Debut of an Actor" and a Theater World Award. He was also honored with the Clarence Derwent Award from Actor's Equity for "Outstanding Broadway Debut".

His other stage credits include, William Inge's Bus Stop and in the Roundabout Theater's production of Three Sisters, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He has appeared in Oedipus with Frances McDormand, starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Measure for Measure at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and starred in the off-Broadway run of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opposite Al Pacino and Steve Buscemi.

Crudup received his Masters of Fine Arts from New York University and also attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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