Cillian Murphy
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.
Filmography (36)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Steve
28 Years Later
Kensuke's Kingdom
Small Things Like These
Oppenheimer
A Quiet Place Part II
Anna
The Delinquent Season
Dunkirk
Free Fire
Anthropoid
In the Heart of the Sea
Transcendence
The Dark Knight Rises
Red Lights
Broken
In Time
Retreat
Inception
TRON: Legacy
Peacock
The Dark Knight
The Edge of Love
Sunshine
Watching the Detectives
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Batman Begins
Red Eye
Breakfast on Pluto
Cold Mountain
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Intermission
28 Days Later
