Biography
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William Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor.
Biography
Early life
Crudup was born in Manhasset, New York, the grandson of Billy Gaither, a well-known Florida trial lawyer. His parents divorced during his childhood, and later remarried, before divorcing a second time.[1] Crudup has two brothers: Tommy, an executive producer, and Brooks, also a producer. He left New York with his family when he was about eight years old, first living in Texas, then in Florida.
Crudup attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received an undergraduate degree, and he continued his passion for acting with the undergraduate acting company, Lab!Theatre. He was a member of the Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He then studied at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he earned a Master in Fine Arts in 1994. A year after graduating, he made his debut on Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.
Career
Crudup began acting in such films as 1996's Sleepers and 1997's Inventing the Abbotts. While he has appeared in many films, he regularly returns to the stage. His first role in an animated feature was in 1999's English release of Princess Mononoke, in which he starred as Ashitaka. He then played Russell Hammond, the mystical guitarist in Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous (2000) He has also been the voice of MasterCard "Priceless" commercials in the US since 1997, making his first appearance in an ad in 2005.
Crudup starred in the production of The Pillowman, also starring Jeff Goldblum, on Broadway in New York, which closed on September 18, 2005. From October 2006 until March 2007, he is in The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center, playing literary critic Vissarion Belinsky.
He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in Washington, DC.
Personal life
From 1996 to November 2003, Crudup dated actress Mary-Louise Parker, with whom he had a son, William Atticus, born on January 7, 2004. He received negative publicity because they broke up while she was seven months pregnant. In 2004, Crudup and his Stage Beauty co-star Claire Danes confirmed that they were dating, but denied press reports that they were together at the time of Crudup's split with Parker.[2]
Filmography
- The Good Shepherd (2006)
- Dedication (2006)
- Mission: Impossible III (2006) - IMF Operations Director Musgrave
- Trust the Man (2005) - Tobey
- Stage Beauty (2004) - Ned Kynaston
- Big Fish (2003) - Will Bloom
- Birdseye (2002) - Unknown big role
- Charlotte Gray (2001) - Julien Levade
- World Traveler (2001) - Cal
- Almost Famous (2000) - Russell Hammond
- Waking the Dead (2000) - Fielding Pierce
- Jesus' Son (1999) - FH
- The Hi-Lo Country (1998) - Pete Calder
- Without Limits (1998) - Steve Prefontaine
- Snitch (1998) - Teddy
- Princess Mononoke (1997) - (voice: English version) Ashitaka
- 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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