Cillian Murphy

Known for ActingBorn 1976-05-25 (age 49)Douglas, Cork, Ireland

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Irish Revolution

Quando

Peaky Blinders

The Dark Knight

Inception

Oppenheimer

The Overcoat

The Dark Knight Rises

All of This Unreal Time

Batman Begins

Filleann an Feall

The Way We Live Now

A Man of Few Words

A Quiet Place Part II

Dunkirk

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

Kensuke's Kingdom

The Irish Revolution

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Watchmen

Anthropoid

The Graham Norton Show

Breakfast on Pluto

28 Days Later

I'm the Man

In Time

Sunshine

Broken

Cold Mountain

Small Things Like These

In the Heart of the Sea

Anna

A World of Calm

28 Years Later

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

At Death's Door

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

Girl with a Pearl Earring

Steve

On the Edge

TRON: Legacy

Golden Globe Awards

The Oscars

The Party

Red Eye