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.
84 acting credits
Acting · 84
Peaky Blinders
2013
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Dark Knight
2008
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Inception
2010
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
60 Minutes
1968
Oppenheimer
2023
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
The Oscars
1953
Batman Begins
2005
28 Days Later
2002
A Quiet Place Part II
2021
Dunkirk
2017
In Time
2011
TRON: Legacy
2010
Anna
2019
Sunshine
2007
Transcendence
2014
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
Cold Mountain
2003
Small Things Like These
2024
Red Eye
2005
Red Lights
2012
The Way We Live Now
2001
A World of Calm
2020
Free Fire
2017
Steve
2025
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
Anthropoid
2016
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024
A Quiet Place Part III
2027
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006
Lennon or McCartney
2014
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
Peacock
2010
The Edge of Love
2008
The Party
2017
The Trench
1999
Watching the Detectives
2007
Retreat
2011
Broken
2012
Intermission
2003
On the Edge
2001
Disco Pigs
2001
Aloft
2014
The Irish Revolution
2019
Sweety Barrett
1999
Perrier's Bounty
2009
Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
2023
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
Sunburn
1999
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
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Untitled Damien Chazelle Project
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The Delinquent Season
2018
Blood Runs Coal
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Fight for First: Excel Esports
2021
Eviction
1999
How Harry Became a Tree
2002
The Overcoat
2018
Carry On Ken
2006
Watchmen
2001
Filleann an Feall
2000
A Man of Few Words
2000
At Death's Door
1999
Quando
1997
The Silent City
2006
From the Mountain
2014
Waveriders
2008
All of This Unreal Time
2021
The Irish Revolution
2019
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
2015
The Silent Man
2018
The Water
2009
Misterman
2011
I'm the Man
2019
Harriet and the matches
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The Meetings of the water
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