Billy Crudup

Crudup is the rare actor whose career I admire more for its shape than its peaks. He had every opportunity to chase pure movie stardom after Almost Famous, yet kept returning to the stage and to supporting parts in films like Big Fish and Watchmen, where craft matters more than billing. The Tony and the Emmy feel less like breakthroughs than overdue acknowledgments of three decades of consistency. What I value most is his unpredictability within reliability: you never know quite what register he will choose, only that it will serve the piece. To my mind, he is a model of how to sustain an acting life with integrity.

Name (English)

Billy Crudup

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・クラダップ

Reading

びりー・くらだっぷ

Born

July 8, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Manhasset, New York, United States

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / actor

High school

St. Thomas Aquinas High School

University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Theatre World Award
• 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
• 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
• Clarence Derwent Awards
• 2024 Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Drama Supporting Actor

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%80%E3%83%83%E3%83%97

Tags

• New York
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.