Billy Crudup
Billy Crudup is an American actor. Born July 8, 1968, in Manhasset. Educated at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Awards include Theatre World Award, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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- Described as
- American actor (born 1968)
- Other names
- William Gaither "Billy" Crudup, William Gaither Crudup
- Born
- July 8, 1968 · 3 references
- Born in
- Manhasset
- Citizen of
- United States
- Occupation
- stage actor; film actor; television actor · 1 reference; actor · 1 reference
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; New York University Tisch School of the Arts; St. Thomas Aquinas High School · 1 reference
- Awards
- Theatre World Award (1995) · 1 reference; Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play (2007); Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (2020); Clarence Derwent Awards; Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actor (2024)
- Spouse
- Naomi Watts (2023–)
- Children
- William Atticus Parker
- Father
- Thomas Henry Crudup III
- Mother
- Georganne Gaither
- Wikipedias with a page
- 42
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What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1383089794
William Gaither Crudup (; born July 8, 1968) is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, Crudup has received two Critics Choice Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and an Olivier Award.
Crudup made his film debut in the legal crime drama Sleepers (1996). He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Jesus' Son (1999). He has taken roles in Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Almost Famous (2000), Big Fish (2003), Public Enemies (2009), The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015), Spotlight (2015), Jackie (2016), 20th Century Women (2016) and Jay Kelly (2025). He has also acted in the blockbuster films Mission: Impossible III (2006), Watchmen (2009), Alien: Covenant (2017) and Justice League (2017).
On television, he has portrayed a network executive in the Apple TV+ drama series The Morning Show (2019–present) for which he won Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He has played Timothy Geithner in the HBO film Too Big to Fail (2011), and acted in the Netflix thriller series Gypsy (2017), and the Apple TV+ science fiction dramedy series Hello Tomorrow! (2023).
On stage, Crudup acted in the Tom Stoppard play The Coast of Utopia (2007) on Broadway for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He was Tony-nominated for his roles in The Elephant Man (2002), The Pillowman (2009), and Arcadia (2011). He starred in the West End production of the play Harry Clarke (2024) for which he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor.
In June 2023, Crudup married English actress Naomi Watts.
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- July 8, 1968
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