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Cillian Murphy
Actor
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- Date of Birth: 1976-05-25 (age 50)
- Nationality:
Ireland - Place of birth: Douglas, Cork, Ireland
Awards:
He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Mini Bio
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).
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.
Backstage
- His American accent, when auditioning for Batman Begins (2005), was so convincing that the casting directors had no clue he was really from Ireland.
- His character Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow is the only Batman villain to appear in all three of Christopher Nolan's Batman films.
- An intensely private person, he prefers not to speak about his personal life and did not appear on any live TV chat shows until 2010.
- He was planning a career in law until he discovered the world of acting.
- His first name is pronounced "Killian".
- Proposed to his wife Yvonne McGuinness while hill-walking in Ireland.
- He still plays music and writes songs but has no intention of starting another band or pursuing it professionally.
- Agreed to a cameo in Tron: Legacy (2010) because he is a huge fan of the original Tron (1982).
- Auditioned for the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins (2005). The role was eventually given to Christian Bale, but director Christopher Nolan liked Cillian's audition so much that he gave him a role as Batman's enemy Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow.
- He greatly admires actor Liam Neeson. Looks at him as a surrogate movie father.
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