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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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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
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Oscars
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Graham Norton Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
60 Minutes
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Golden Globe Awards
A World of Calm
The Dark Knight Rises
TRON: Legacy
Cold Mountain
28 Years Later
The Dark Knight
The Party
Inception
Batman Begins
A Quiet Place Part II
Dunkirk
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Anna
Transcendence
Broken
In the Heart of the Sea
The Way We Live Now
In Time
Anthropoid
Untitled Prison Film
Red Eye
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
Peaky Blinders
28 Years Later Part 3
Red Lights
The Delinquent Season
Small Things Like These
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Sunshine
Free Fire
The Immortal Man: A Peaky Blinders Film
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Fight for First: Excel Esports
Steve
Watching the Detectives
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
28 Days Later
Oppenheimer
Production Credits
The Immortal Man: A Peaky Blinders Film
Untitled Peaky Blinders Sequel
Peaky Blinders
28 Years Later
Steve
28 Years Later Part 3
Small Things Like These
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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