Cillian Murphy
Acting
- Born:
- 1976-05-25
- Place of birth:
- Douglas, Cork, Ireland
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
Filmography
A Quiet Place Part III
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Steve
Small Things Like These
Kensuke's Kingdom
Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Oppenheimer
Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
All of This Unreal Time
A Quiet Place Part II
Fight for First: Excel Esports
A World of Calm
I'm the Man
Anna
The Irish Revolution
The Irish Revolution
The Overcoat
The Silent Man
The Delinquent Season
The Party
Dunkirk
Free Fire
Anthropoid
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
In the Heart of the Sea
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Lennon or McCartney
From the Mountain
Transcendence
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Aloft
Harriet and the matches
Peaky Blinders
Broken
The Dark Knight Rises
Red Lights
In Time
Retreat
Misterman
TRON: Legacy
Inception
Peacock
Perrier's Bounty
The Water
The Dark Knight
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight
The Edge of Love
Waveriders
Watching the Detectives
Sunshine
The Graham Norton Show
The Silent City
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Carry On Ken
Breakfast on Pluto
Red Eye
Batman Begins
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'
Intermission
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
28 Days Later
How Harry Became a Tree
The Way We Live Now
Disco Pigs
On the Edge
Watchmen
Filleann an Feall
A Man of Few Words
Sunburn
Eviction
The Trench
At Death's Door
Sweety Barrett
Quando
60 Minutes
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
Blood Runs Coal
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Sacrifice
28 Years Later: Part III
The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer