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Billy Crudup
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.
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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 |
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$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% | 78% | 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 | Ashitaka (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 | 10% | 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 |