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William Crudup (born July 8, 1968) is an American actor.

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. 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. He graduated from Saint Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1986.

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 U.S. since 1997, making his first appearance in an ad in 2005. In 2006's The Good Shepherd he played british spy Arch Cummings, a stand-in for Kim Philby.

Crudup received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in The Elephant Man on Broadway, as well as for his role in the Broadway production of The Pillowman, also starring Jeff Goldblum, which closed on September 18, 2005. From October 2006 until May 13, 2007, he is starring in the first two parts of 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 New York, NY.

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. In December 2006 the couple split after Danes was seen together with her Evening co-star Hugh Dancy.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1996 Sleepers Tommy Marcano
1996 Everyone Says I Love You Ken
1997 Inventing the Abbotts John Charles 'Jacey' Holt
1997 Grind Eddie Dolan
1997 Princess Mononoke Ashitaka (voice: English version)
1998 Snitch Teddy
1998 Without Limits Steve Prefontaine
1998 The Hi-Lo Country Pete Calder
1999 Jesus' Son FH
2000 Waking the Dead Fielding Pierce
2000 Almost Famous Russell Hammond
2001 World Traveler Cal
2001 Charlotte Gray Julien Levade
2002 Birdseye Unknown big role
2003 Big Fish Will Bloom
2004 Stage Beauty Ned Kynaston
2005 Trust the Man Tobey
2006 Mission: Impossible III IMF Operations Director Musgrave
2006 Dedication Henry
2006 The Good Shepherd Arch Cummings

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