
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.
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

A World of Calm

The Dark Knight Rises

TRON: Legacy

Cold Mountain

The Dark Knight

The Party

Inception

Batman Begins

Dunkirk

A Quiet Place Part II

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Transcendence

Anna

Broken

In Time

In the Heart of the Sea

Red Lights

Red Eye

Anthropoid

28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Free Fire

Watching the Detectives

Small Things Like These

Sunshine

Peaky Blinders

The Delinquent Season

Oppenheimer

28 Days Later

28 Years Later

The Immortal Man: A Peaky Blinders Film

Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain

28 Years Later Part 3
Production Credits
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