Billy Crudup Ozark (2024)

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The new Apple TV+ series is loosely based on Brian Stelter's 2013 book, Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, but the cast has been pretty insistent that all of the characters are fictional — including Cory.

Billy Crudup is an American actor. He first gained recognition in the 1996 film Sleepers. Crudup's most famous films include Almost Famous (2000), Big Fish (2003), Mission: Impossible III (2006), Watchmen (2009), Public Enemies (2009), Spotlight (2015) and Alien: Covenant (2017).

William Atticus Parker

Billy Crudup / Son

Crudup graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 and then earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from New York University's (NYU's) Tisch School of the Arts in 1994.

The FBI had subpoenaed Bradley's footage from the Capitol attack to try and identify the man who'd assaulted the officer. Knowing that this man was Hal and that if she gave over all her footage, the cuts would make it clear that she deleted the crucial moment, she turned to Cory for help.

Cory Helped Bradley Cover Up A Secret After The Morning Show Season 2.

A self-described student of human nature, Crudup has said that he looks for characters wrestling with their mistakes. Rumor has it that he declined an audition for the lead in Titanic (1997) in order to seek out more challenging projects--like the "Steve Prefontaine" biopic Without Limits (1998).

For the record, Billy's last name is pronounced CREW-dup, not CRUD-up, he said.

What Caused 'The Flash' Shake-Up? However, due to a scheduling conflict with his commitments to the Apple+ series The Morning Show, Crudup regrettably had to pass on reprising his role as Henry Allen in The Flash.

November 9, 2009: Naomi Watts and Billy Crudup meet

Years before they costarred alongside each other in Gypsy, Watts and Crudup had their first run-in on Broadway. According to Broadway World, the pair took part in the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway benefit and were photographed together at the afterparty.

Does Billy Crudup talk to his son? ›

The timing of Billy's exit from their eight-year romance may have been shocking, but he still formed a close bond with the couple's son, William Atticus Parker, now 19. William has followed in his famous parents' footsteps and is a writer, director, and producer, but he seldom makes appearances alongside them.

For the role, Billy Crudup who had been a college athlete trained for four months with Patrice Donnelly (she starred in Personal Best) to run short distances as he was expected to run 110 to 200 yards for a 5,000 meter race sequence.

He has also starred in the streaming television series Gypsy (2017), The Morning Show (2019), which earned him a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award and a 2024 Critics' Choice Television Award, and Hello Tomorrow! (2023). In June 2023, he married British actress Naomi Watts.

Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker are the proud parents of their 19-year-old son, William Atticus Parker. The Morning Show star and the Weeds actress became first-time parents after welcoming William on Jan. 7, 2004.

Crudup was born in 1968 in Manhasset, New York (a Long Island suburb), the middle child in a family of three boys. He is the son of Georgann (Gaither) and Thomas Henry Crudup III, and the grandson of prominent attorney William Cotter "Billy" Gaither, Jr.

He met several artists who would influence his later life, including the artist Romare Bearden and the author Richard Wright (with whom he would have a long and complicated relationship). After Ellison wrote a book review for Wright, Wright encouraged him to write fiction as a career.

Immediately after Alex and Bradley's broadcast, Fred told Cory he was a dead man, but Cory believed Fred was instead. Despite this, he was shocked when the network fired him for hijacking the airways by allowing Bradley and Alex to continue and for locking Fred out of the control room.

Award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan joined The Morning Show season 3 cast in episode 7 as Martha Ellison, Cory's mother.

That becomes especially clear when she learns of UBA chief Cory Ellison's (Billy Crudup) plan to sell the company to tech mogul Paul Marks (Jon Hamm). Cory admits that UBA is in some deep financial trouble after the launch of their streaming service and the lasting impact of the pandemic.