Billy Crudup is an American actor. He is an actor of film and stage. He is recognized mostly for his role of the guitarist Russell Hammond in Almost Famous, Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen and Will Bloom in Big Fish.
Crudup’s net worth is an estimated $6 million. His earnings come from movies and plays. Crudup started his journey in the film industry with the movie Sleepers which was released in 1996.
The same year saw Billy in another movie titled Everyone Says I Love You. He then played movies for the consecutive years Inventing Abbotts in 1997 and Without Limits in 1998.
The famous movies of his includes Jesus’ Son in 1999, Almost Famous and Walking the Dead in 2000, Charlotte Gray in 2001, Big Fish in 2003, Stage Beauty in 2004, Trust the Man in 2005, Mission Impossible III in 2006, Dedication in 2007, Pretty Bird in 2008, Public Enemies and Watchmen in 2009, Eat Pray and Love in 2010, Too Big to Fail in 2011, The Watch in 2012, Blood Ties in 2013, and Rudderless in 2014 among other movies.
His role of Russel Hammond, Steve Prefontaine, Will Bloom, Dr. Manhattan, and Sam is very famous. He is a brilliant stage and film actor. He has not done any TV shows until now.
If critics are to be believed, Crudup is more genius as a stage actor than a film star. His plays include Waiting for Godot, Arcadia, The Metal Children, The Elephant Man, Oedipus, The Three Sisters, and America Dreaming.
For his works, he has been honored with reviews, nominations, and awards. He has been awarded the prestigious Tony Award for his role in the play The Coast of Utopia: Part 1 – Voyage, Satellite Award for Charlotte Gray, and Western Heritage Award for The Hi-Lo Country.
He has the most number of awards for Almost Famous. He has on his hand the OFCS Award, Screen Actor Guild Award, MTV Movie Award, Blockbuster Entertainment Award, and Independent Spirit Award for his role in Almost Famous.
Moving on to his personal life, Crudup is a New York born American (July 8, 1968). He is just 48 years of age. He was raised in New York by his parents.
His parents divorced when he was just a baby. He later moved to Florida where he completed his studies. He graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, Florida.
He was passionate about acting from a very young age. He showed his interest in acting while undergraduate by acting for the LAB! Theatre. He was also the member of the Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
He later studied a graduate program in acting from the New York’s Tisch School of Arts. He achieved a master’s degree in fine arts from there.In 1996, he started dating Mary-Louise Parker.
Parker is also an actor famous for her roles in the movies like Boys on the Side, RED, RED 2, and Angels in America. The couple was the media sweethearts. They were in a relationship for seven long years.
Crudup broke up and left Parker when she was pregnant with Crudup’s baby. Their baby was born in January 2004, a son named William Atticus Parker.
Shortly after a breakup with longtime girlfriend Mary, Crudup was seen with another woman. He started dating Claire Danes. They were quite in the news.
Rumors were there that Crudup is going to make Danes his wife for sure. But the rumors were denied after the couple broke up after four years of their relationship.
Billy Crudup stands five feet nine inch tall. He is a very handsome actor with a gay – ish charm. He seems to like having a correct weight which suits his height. His exceptional acting and his looks are what his fans are crazy for.
His shirtless pictures are very popular among his fans. He has a huge fan following. He is not active on social sites. He doesn’t have an official Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram though his fans have made a page for him in all of these websites.
The admin of the page uploads pictures and updates his other fans about his latest developments and news. For a more professional profile of him, you can search his name on Wikipedia and for a mini biography go to IMDB.