Cillian Murphy
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Biography
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor.
He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early notable film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (2005), the Irish war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), and the science fiction thriller Sunshine (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Murphy began collaborating with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017) and portraying the lead role of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biographical epic Oppenheimer (2023). By the year 2023, Murphy has already worked with Nolan for around 20 years and six films. He also gained prominence for his role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2022) and for starring in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020).
In 2011, Murphy won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for the one-man play Misterman. In 2020, The Irish Times named him one of the greatest Irish film actors.
Known For
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Oscars
Late Night with Seth Meyers
60 Minutes
Honest Trailers
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Golden Globe Awards
TRON: Legacy
Cold Mountain
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Begins
Inception
A Quiet Place Part II
A World of Calm
Dunkirk
Transcendence
Free Fire
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Anna
In the Heart of the Sea
Broken
In Time
Red Lights
Anthropoid
Red Eye
Sunshine
Oppenheimer
28 Days Later
28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple
The Immortal Man
28 Years Later Part 3
The Delinquent Season
Peaky Blinders
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
28 Years Later
Production Credits
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