Cillian Murphy
Acting
Born 1976-05-25
Douglas, Cork, Ireland
87 credits
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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.
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Acting
56 credits
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Peaky Blinders
The Graham Norton Show
The Dark Knight
Inception
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Oppenheimer
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Golden Globe Awards
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
60 Minutes
Batman Begins
28 Days Later
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
The Dark Knight Rises
TRON: Legacy
Dunkirk
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
The Oscars
In Time
A Quiet Place Part II
Anna
In the Heart of the Sea
Cold Mountain
Transcendence
Red Eye
Sunshine
Red Lights
Small Things Like These
Anthropoid
Free Fire
Breakfast on Pluto
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Steve
Perrier's Bounty
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Kensuke's Kingdom
The Party
A World of Calm
The Way We Live Now
Broken
The Edge of Love
Peacock
Watching the Detectives
The Trench
Retreat
A Quiet Place Part III
Aloft
On the Edge
Intermission
Disco Pigs
The Delinquent Season
Lennon or McCartney
Fight for First: Excel Esports
Quando
Producing
8 credits
Peaky Blinders
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
28 Years Later
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Small Things Like These
Steve
28 Years Later: Part III
Untitled Peaky Blinders Sequel
Other credits
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