Billy Crudup

Billy Crudup stars as George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at @sohoplace. Edward Albee’s electrifying drama returns to the West End from 21 September to 19 December 2026, directed by Marianne Elliott.

American screen and stage star Billy Crudup is an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor, recently starring on the London stage in High Noon at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

Billy Crudup’s stage credits

On stage, Billy Crudup’s other recent roles included starring in one-man drama Harry Clarke at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. He also played the role at Berkley Repertory Theatre in California, and the production transferred from two runs Off-Broadway, at the Vineyard Theatre in 2017, and the Minetta Lane Theatre in 2018.

Crudup has also starred in repertory productions of NO MAN’S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT on Broadway, opposite Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Shuler Hensley. In 2007, Crudup won a “Best Performance by a Featured Actor” Tony Award for his role in the Broadway production of THE COAST OF UTOPIA. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE PILLOWMAN, and ARCADIA.

His other stage credits include William Inge’s BUS STOP and the Roundabout Theater’s production of THREE SISTERS, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He has appeared in OEDIPUS with Frances McDormand, starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and starred in the off-Broadway run of THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI opposite Al Pacino and Steve Buscemi.

For Vineyard Theatre, Billy Crudup has appeared in Chiori Miyagawa’s AMERICA DREAMING and Adam Rapp’s THE METAL CHILDREN.

Billy Crudup’s film credits

Billy Crudup’s recent film roles include Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Where’d You Go, Bernadette alongside Kristen Wiig and Cate Blanchett, Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, Die in a Gunfight, and Donnybrook.

Additional major motion pictures include Jackie, 20th Century Women, Spotlight, Youth in Oregon, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Without Limits, Jesus’ Son, Waking the Dead, Almost Famous, 1 Mile to You, Glass Chin, Rudderless, Blood Ties, Eat Pray Love, Public Enemies, Watchmen, Charlotte Gray, Big Fish, Stage Beauty, Trust the Man, Mission Impossible 3, and The Good Shepherd.

Billy Crudup’s TV credits

Billy is best known for ongoing Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, alongside Jennifer Aniston and Reece Witherspoon, for which he has won an Emmy Award, and a Critics Choice award.

Billy Crudup made his television debut in Netflix’s psychological thriller “Gypsy.” Other TV work includes Hello Tomorrow!

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