Billy Crudup

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

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.

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".

• Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.

• 1968: Born

• 1996: Sleepers

• 1997: Inventing the Abbotts

• 1998: Without Limits

• 1999: Jesus' Son

• 2000: Waking the Dead

• 2000: Almost Famous

• 2003: Big Fish

• 2004: Stage Beauty

• 2005: The Pillowman

• 2006: Mission Impossible III

• 2006: The Good Shepherd

• 2006-2007: The Coast of Utopia

• 2007: Dedication

• 2008: Watchmen