Cillian Murphy
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Cillian Murphy

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Biography

Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 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.

Films Featuring Cillian Murphy

The Dark Knight

20088.5

28 Days Later

20027.2

Batman Begins

20057.7

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

20067.3

Sunshine

20077.0

Breakfast on Pluto

20057.2

Oppenheimer

20238.0

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

20267.2

Cold Mountain

20036.9

Girl with a Pearl Earring

20036.6

Watching the Detectives

20076.3

Peacock

20106.1

Red Eye

20056.4

The Trench

19995.3

The Silent City

20065.6

Disco Pigs

20015.7

Inception

20108.4

Perrier's Bounty

20105.8

The Edge of Love

20086.2

Small Things Like These

20246.7

Sunburn

19996.2

Intermission

20036.2

The Dark Knight Rises

20127.8

In Time

20117.0

On the Edge

20016.7

Retreat

20115.6

The Irish Revolution

20198.0

Red Lights

20126.2

Broken

20126.9

How Harry Became a Tree

20025.5

Transcendence

20146.1

Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

20236.5

In the Heart of the Sea

20156.8

Aloft

20145.3

Steve

20256.4

Free Fire

20176.2

Filleann an Feall

20007.8

A Man of Few Words

20007.7

Watchmen

20017.3

TRON: Legacy

20106.5

At Death's Door

19996.8

Eviction

19995.7

Anthropoid

20167.1

Blood Runs Coal

Blood Runs Coal

Sweety Barrett

19996.0

Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

20157.3

Dunkirk

20177.4

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

20166.6

The Party

20176.3

The Delinquent Season

20186.1

Anna

20196.7

The Overcoat

20188.0

Kensuke's Kingdom

20247.2

A Quiet Place Part II

20217.4

Waveriders

20085.8

I'm the Man

20197.0

Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain

Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain

8.2

Carry On Ken

2006

All of This Unreal Time

20217.7

Lennon or McCartney

20145.3

The Silent Man

2018

From the Mountain

2014

Quando

Quando

19979.0

Sacrifice

Sacrifice

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

20267.1

Misterman

2011

The Water

2009

Harriet and the matches

2013

A Quiet Place Part III

2027

Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'

Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'

20036.7

Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

20240.5