CineBeta - Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Acting May 25, 1976 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.

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Robert Fischer, Jr.

Inception

2010

7.1

Jim (uncredited)

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

2026

6.5

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Edward Dillinger (uncredited)

TRON: Legacy

2010

7.0

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Raymond Leon

In Time

2011

7.4

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Emmett

A Quiet Place Part II

2021

6.7

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Lenny Miller

Anna

2019

6.4

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Jackson Rippner

Red Eye

2005

6.3

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Chris

Free Fire

2017

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Thomas Shelby

Peaky Blinders

2013

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