After watching Almost Famous recently for my 2015 Blindspot series I wanted to take a look at the career of one of its stars: Billy Crudup.
He was born on July 8, 1968 in Manhasset, New York. At age 8 he moved to Texas with his family and later to Florida where he graduated in 1986. He had a passion for acting and acted with the LAB! Theatre. The University of North Carolina had a show on which he acted called General College. After graduating he got a role on Broadway in Arcadia. He also started acting in films with one of his first roles in the movie Sleepers. He continued to work on stage as well and received various Tony awards. He appeared in movies like Big Fish, Mission: Impossible III, The Good Shepherd, Watchmen, Public Enemies, Eat Pray Love and Blood Ties
What is your favorite Billy Crudup role?
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After Blood Ties, I feel the urge to reevaluate him as an actor.
In a good way I hope?
Pretty good actor and so handsome. Love him in Big Fish. Didn’t remember he was in Eat Pray Love. I must’ve blocked that one out. Loved the book but wasn’t a fan of the film.
I was surprised that he didn’t play in as many movies as I expected as he is a solid actor. Have not watched Eat Prey Love myself.
You’re not missing out on much. The book is so much better. The film adaptation was meh and didn’t capture the essence of Gilbert’s writing.
He is definitely a handsome guy! I liked him a lot in Big Fish and MI3.
Big Fish is a movie I really want to revisit as it was such a great story.
He’s not really my fave actor but I do think he’s quite a chameleon as he seems to look different from film to film. He’s good in Big Fish!
Yeah, I don’t know his work that well, but was interested to see what movies he did.