Billy Crudup has been honored by New York food rescue charity City Harvest. The Almost Famous star has been donating money to the non-profit organization, which collects food from New York restaurants to give to the homeless, for years.

But Crudup admits he was surprised by the recognition at the Metropolitan Pavilion event on Tuesday, because he's been handing over money to City Harvest for so long, he forgot he was doing it.

He tells USA Today newspaper, "I moved to New York about 15 years ago and pretty quickly realized that dealing with the hunger issue on a moment-to-moment basis was difficult. When I started making money as an actor, I started donating. That was the only capacity (writing checks) that I was involved with. When they called me about this (honor), I was so moved because I didn't even know that I gave to them."

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