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• Billy Crudup is an American film and stage actor, known for taking a spectrum of roles that highlight inner moral complexity.

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: July 8, 1968
  2. Birthplace: Manhasset, New York
  3. Attended the University of North Carolina
  4. Received an MFA at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts
  5. Won a Tony Award for his work in The Coast of Utopia
  6. Starred as "The Elephant Man" on Broadway
  7. Cast as "Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan" in Watchmen
  8. Cast as Russell Hammond in Almost Famous after Brad Pitt passed on the role
  9. Has a son with actress Mary-Louise Parker

• Notable Roles

  Crudup's first leading role was in the 1998 film "Without Limits where he played runner Steve Prefontaine. He also stared in Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical drama, "Almost Famous" and recently cast as Doctor Manhattan in the film adaptation of the DC Comic Watchmen.

• Quotes

  1. "I think I'm a good actor because I try really hard. That also means that when I suck, I aggressively suck. That probably happens as much as it doesn't, but at least I'm always in search of the moment where I can do something I haven't done before".

• Related Mahalo Pages

  Watchmen | Dedication | Mission Impossible 3 | Cameron Crowe | Mary-Louise Parker | Robert De Niro | Claire Danes | Almost Famous | The Good Shepherd | Tales of the Black Freighter

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