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Cillian Murphy
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.…
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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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2027
A Quiet Place Part III
Movie Emmett
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2026
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Movie Tommy Shelby
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2026
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Movie Jim (uncredited)
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2025
Steve
Movie Steve
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2025
28 Years Later
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Small Things Like These
Movie Bill Furlong
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2024
Kensuke's Kingdom
Movie Dad (voice)
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2024
Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Movie Thomas Shelby (voice)
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2023
Oppenheimer
Movie J. Robert Oppenheimer
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2023
Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
Movie Self - J. Robert Oppenheimer
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2021
All of This Unreal Time
Movie Man
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2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Movie Emmett
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2021
Fight for First: Excel Esports
TV show Narrator
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2020
A World of Calm
TV show Narrator
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2019
I'm the Man
Movie Narrator
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2019
Anna
Movie Lenny Miller
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2019
The Irish Revolution
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2019
The Irish Revolution
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
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2018
The Overcoat
Movie Akaky (voice)
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2018
The Silent Man
Movie The Doll
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2018
The Delinquent Season
Movie Jim
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2017
The Party
Movie Tom
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2017
Dunkirk
Movie Shivering Soldier
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2017
Free Fire
Movie Chris
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2016
Anthropoid
Movie Josef Gabčík
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2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie Self - Actor
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2015
In the Heart of the Sea
Movie Matthew Joy
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2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV show Self - Guest
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2015
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
Movie Himself - Narrator
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2015
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
TV show Self - Narrator
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Lennon or McCartney
Movie Self
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2014
From the Mountain
Movie Man
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2014
Transcendence
Movie Agent Donald Buchanan
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
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2014
Aloft
Movie Ivan
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2013
Harriet and the matches
Movie Cat (voice)
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2013
Peaky Blinders
TV show Thomas Shelby
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2012
Broken
Movie Mike Kiernan
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2012
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
