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Cillian Murphy
57 FOLLOWERS • 42 CREDITS • MAY 25, 1976 • 48
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
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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The Oscars
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Late Night with Seth Meyers
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60 Minutes
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Honest Trailers
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The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
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Golden Globe Awards
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TRON: Legacy
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Cold Mountain
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The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight Rises
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Inception
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Batman Begins
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A World of Calm
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A Quiet Place Part II
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Dunkirk
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Free Fire
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Anna
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Transcendence
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In Time
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Broken
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In the Heart of the Sea
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A Quiet Place Part III
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Red Eye
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Anthropoid
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Oppenheimer
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28 Years Later Part 3
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Sunshine
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28 Days Later
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28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple
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Peaky Blinders
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
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Untitled Peaky Blinders Film
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The Delinquent Season
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28 Years Later
Production Credits
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