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Billy Crudup

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Biography

Actor Billy Crudup does not court stardom. He's one of those hard-working actors who'll shoot the movie, do the required publicity, but not parade his personal life before the public. His most recent appearance on the screen was in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous.

Born in Manhasset, New York on July 8, 1968, Billy was raised in Florida and Texas. His family frequently moved and always being the new kid meant Billy had to develop some way of gaining acceptance. Being the class clown was his ticket in.

He sparked his interest in drama at the University of North Carolina and upon graduation headed to NYC to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Just prior to his graduation in 1994, Crudup won a role in the indie flick Grind. Though this was his feature debut, it ended up without a distributor for three years.

He landed a role in the 1995 Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, a role which won him both critical praise and the Outer Critics Circle award. In 1996 he hit the screen again, this time with Brad Pitt and Jason Patric in Sleepers. That year he also appeared in Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You.

Crudup returned to the stage for the Broadway revival of Bus Stop. Not only did he win critical praise, he also won the heart of co-star Mary-Louise Parker.

He again found himself on screen in 1997's Inventing the Abbotts, which also starred Joaquin Phoenix, Liv Tyler, and Jennifer Connelly. Though the film didn't set the box office on fire, it did give Crudup's career an added push and his first film Grind finally found a distributor.

1998. Enter Tom Cruise. Crudup won the role of Steve Prefontaine in the Cruise-produced Without Limits. The film had a gala premiere and press conference at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival. The media attention on the Cruise-produced, Robert Towne-written and directed project ensured that attention would be on Crudup too. 1998 also saw Crudup starring with Woody Harrelson and Patricia Arquette in Stephen Frears' The Hi-Lo Country.

In 1999 Crudup made Waking the Dead and Jesus' Son. He returned to the Toronto Film Festival's red carpet again as one of the cast of Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous.

In 2001 he appeared in World Traveler and Charlotte Gray.

Filmography

Big Fish (2003) .... William Bloom
Charlotte Gray (2001) .... Julien Levade
... aka Liebe der Charlotte Gray, Die (2002) (Germany)
World Traveler (2001) .... Cal
Almost Famous (2000) .... Russell Hammond
... aka Untitled: Almost Famous the Bootleg Cut (2001) (USA: director's cut (DVD title))
Waking the Dead (2000/I) .... Fielding Pierce
Jesus' Son (1999) .... FH
Hi-Lo Country, The (1998) .... Pete Calder
... aka Hi-Lo Country - Im Land der letzten Cowboys (1999) (Germany: TV title)
Without Limits (1998) .... Steve Prefontaine
Snitch (1998) .... Teddy
... aka Noose (1998) (Australia: DVD title) (USA: working title)
... aka Monument Ave. (1999) (USA: new title)
Mononoke Hime (1997)(voice) .... Prince Ashitaka
... aka Princess Mononoke (1999) (USA: US version)
Grind (1997) .... Eddie Dolan
Inventing the Abbotts (1997) .... John Charles 'Jacey' Holt
Everyone Says I Love You (1996) .... Ken
Sleepers (1996) .... Tommy Marcano

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