Film and television Crudup began acting in films such as 1996's
Sleepers, 1997's
Inventing the Abbotts, and 1998's
Without Limits, where he played the role of running legend and Olympian
Steve Prefontaine. His first role in an animated feature was in 1999's English release of
Princess Mononoke, in which he voiced Ashitaka. He then played lead guitarist Russell Hammond from Stillwater, the fictional band at the center of
Cameron Crowe's
Almost Famous (2000). In 2006's
The Good Shepherd, he played British spy Arch Cummings, a stand-in for
Kim Philby. The same year, he played a supporting role in
Mission: Impossible III. In 2007, he played the leading role of Henry Roth in the film
Dedication. Crudup completed filming
Watchmen with director
Zack Snyder in Vancouver,
British Columbia. He portrayed the superhero
Doctor Manhattan. He portrayed former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Timothy Geithner in a TV film about 2008's financial crisis,
Too Big to Fail (2011). Crudup stars in the
Apple TV+ series
The Morning Show, for which he won a
Primetime Emmy Award in 2020 and 2024 and a
Critics' Choice Television Award in 2020 and 2023.
Stage A year after graduating from Tisch, Crudup made his debut on
Broadway in the
Lincoln Center Theater production of
Tom Stoppard's
Arcadia. Crudup received a 2002
Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as
the title character in
The Elephant Man on Broadway, as well as a 2005 nomination for his role as Katurian in the Broadway production of
The Pillowman, also starring
Jeff Goldblum, which closed on September 18, 2005. From October 2006 through May 2007, he was featured in the first two parts of
The Coast of Utopia by
Tom Stoppard at
Lincoln Center, playing literary critic
Vissarion Belinsky, for which he received a 2007
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He starred in
The Metal Children, an off-Broadway play written and directed by
Adam Rapp in 2010. In 2011, Crudup received a Tony Award nomination for Featured Actor in a Play for his role in the Broadway revival of
Arcadia. In August 2013, he co-starred with
Ian McKellen and
Patrick Stewart in the
Harold Pinter play ''
No Man's Land as well as in Waiting for Godot'' at the
Berkeley Repertory Theatre. The shows transferred to The
Cort Theatre in New York City, where they ran in repertory until March 2014. In November 2017, he starred in the world premiere of
David Cale's one-man play
Harry Clarke at
Vineyard Theatre. It moved to the
Minetta Lane Theatre the following spring.
Other work From 1998 to 2005, Crudup was the narrator for the U.S. television ad campaign
Priceless for
Mastercard. In the ads, the narrator (Crudup) lists the prices of two goods or services, then lists some third, intangible benefit gained from those purchases and concludes, "priceless". He said in 2005 that appearing in the ads "changed my life", in that they gave him the financial freedom to pursue the acting work that he wanted to do. He appeared as
Zartan in the 2009 parody video
The Ballad of G.I. Joe on the website
Funny or Die. ==Personal life==