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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2008 • Movie
as Robert Fischer, Jr.
as Scarecrow
as J. Robert Oppenheimer
as Bill Furlong
as Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
as Jim
as Dr. Jonathan Crane
as Edward Dillinger (uncredited)
as Shivering Soldier
as Raymond Leon
as Steve
as Capa
as Thomas 'Tommy' Shelby
as Tom Buckley
as Tom
as Bardolph
as Matthew Joy
as Agent Donald Buchanan
as Josef Gabčík
as Jackson Rippner
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as Thomas Shelby
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as Self
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as Self
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as Self - Nominee
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as Self - Guest
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as Self - Presenter
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as Paul Montague
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as Narrator
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as Self - Narrator (voice)
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