Biography
Billy Crudup is an American actor. Born on 8 July 1968 in Manhasset, New York, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994.
He made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance in Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia in 2007. Film credits include Russell Hammond in Almost Famous (2000), Will Bloom in Big Fish (2003), Jon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen (2009), Eric Macleish in Spotlight (2015) and roles in Mission: Impossible III (2006), Public Enemies (2009) and Alien: Covenant (2017). He plays Timothy in the 2025 film Jay Kelly.
On television he portrays Cory Ellison in the series The Morning Show (2019–), earning two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
