Cillian Murphy

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

85

Gender

Male

Birthday

1976-05-25 (49 years old)

Place of Birth

Douglas, Cork, Ireland

Cillian Murphy

Biography

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.

Known For

  • Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

  • Late Night with Seth Meyers

    Late Night with Seth Meyers

  • 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

    28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

  • Golden Globe Awards

    Golden Globe Awards

  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

    The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

  • Jimmy Kimmel Live!

    Jimmy Kimmel Live!

  • The Graham Norton Show

    The Graham Norton Show

  • The Dark Knight

    The Dark Knight

  • Inception

    Inception

  • Oppenheimer

    Oppenheimer

  • Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

    Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

  • 28 Days Later

    28 Days Later

  • 60 Minutes

    60 Minutes

  • The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises

  • Batman Begins

    Batman Begins

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • The Oscars

    The Oscars

  • Red Lights

    Red Lights

  • Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These

  • Dunkirk

    Dunkirk

  • Steve

    Steve

  • In Time

    In Time

  • Anthropoid

    Anthropoid

  • TRON: Legacy

    TRON: Legacy

  • The Party

    The Party

  • A Quiet Place Part II

    A Quiet Place Part II

  • Anna

    Anna

  • Retreat

    Retreat

  • Watchmen

    Watchmen

  • Broken

    Broken

  • The Edge of Love

    The Edge of Love

  • Red Eye

    Red Eye

  • Sunshine

    Sunshine

  • Disco Pigs

    Disco Pigs

  • Kensuke's Kingdom

    Kensuke's Kingdom

  • Blood Runs Coal

    Blood Runs Coal

  • Sunburn

    Sunburn

  • Cold Mountain

    Cold Mountain

  • Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

    Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

  • Girl with a Pearl Earring

    Girl with a Pearl Earring

  • Free Fire

    Free Fire

  • Transcendence

    Transcendence

  • In the Heart of the Sea

    In the Heart of the Sea

  • 28 Years Later Part 3

    28 Years Later Part 3

  • Sweety Barrett

    Sweety Barrett

  • The Delinquent Season

    The Delinquent Season

  • Intermission

    Intermission

  • Aloft

    Aloft

  • Filleann an Feall

    Filleann an Feall

  • Breakfast on Pluto

    Breakfast on Pluto

  • The Way We Live Now

    The Way We Live Now

  • I'm the Man

    I'm the Man

  • Lennon or McCartney

    Lennon or McCartney

  • A World of Calm

    A World of Calm

  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    The Wind That Shakes the Barley

  • Fight for First: Excel Esports

    Fight for First: Excel Esports

  • The Trench

    The Trench

  • Eviction

    Eviction

  • Watching the Detectives

    Watching the Detectives

  • Peacock

    Peacock

  • Perrier's Bounty

    Perrier's Bounty

  • Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

    Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

  • On the Edge

    On the Edge

  • The Overcoat

    The Overcoat

  • The Irish Revolution

    The Irish Revolution

  • Untitled Prison Film

    Untitled Prison Film

  • How Harry Became a Tree

    How Harry Became a Tree

  • At Death's Door

    At Death's Door

  • Waveriders

    Waveriders

  • The Irish Revolution

    The Irish Revolution

  • Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

    Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

  • Quando

    Quando

  • Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain

    Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain

  • The Silent City

    The Silent City

  • All of This Unreal Time

    All of This Unreal Time

  • The Silent Man

    The Silent Man

  • From the Mountain

    From the Mountain

  • A Man of Few Words

    A Man of Few Words

  • Carry On Ken

    Carry On Ken

  • The Meetings of the water

    The Meetings of the water

  • Harriet and the matches

    Harriet and the matches

  • Misterman

    Misterman

  • Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

    Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

  • The Water

    The Water