Cillian Murphy
Acting
1976-05-25 · 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. 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.
Filmography
TheatersA Quiet Place Part III
2027 · Movie
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026 · Movie
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2026 · Movie
Steve
2025 · Movie
28 Years Later
2025 · Movie
Small Things Like These
2024 · Movie
Kensuke's Kingdom
2024 · Movie
Peaky Blinders: Rambert’s The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
2024 · Movie
Oppenheimer
2023 · Movie
Inside Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer
2023 · Movie
All of This Unreal Time
2021 · Movie
A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · Movie
Fight for First: Excel Esports
2021 · Series
A World of Calm
2020 · Series
I'm the Man
2019 · Movie
Anna
2019 · Movie
The Irish Revolution
2019 · Movie
The Irish Revolution
2019 · Series
The Overcoat
2018 · Movie
Konbini Vidéo Club
2018 · Series
The Silent Man
2018 · Movie
The Delinquent Season
2018 · Movie
The Party
2017 · Movie
Dunkirk
2017 · Movie
Free Fire
2017 · Movie
Anthropoid
2016 · Movie
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 · Movie
In the Heart of the Sea
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
2015 · Movie
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
2015 · Series
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
Lennon or McCartney
2014 · Movie
From the Mountain
2014 · Movie
Transcendence
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
Aloft
2014 · Movie
Harriet and the matches
2013 · Movie
Peaky Blinders
2013 · Series
Broken
2012 · Movie
The Dark Knight Rises
2012 · Movie
Red Lights
2012 · Movie
In Time
2011 · Movie
Retreat
2011 · Movie
Misterman
2011 · Movie
TRON: Legacy
2010 · Movie
Inception
2010 · Movie
Peacock
2010 · Movie
Perrier's Bounty
2010 · Movie
The Water
2009 · Movie
The Dark Knight
2008 · Movie
The Edge of Love
2008 · Movie
Waveriders
2008 · Movie
Watching the Detectives
2007 · Movie
Sunshine
2007 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
The Silent City
2006 · Movie
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006 · Movie
Carry On Ken
2006 · Movie
Breakfast on Pluto
2005 · Movie
Red Eye
2005 · Movie
Batman Begins
2005 · Movie
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · Series
Cold Mountain
2003 · Movie
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Movie
Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'
2003 · Movie
Intermission
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
28 Days Later
2002 · Movie
How Harry Became a Tree
2002 · Movie
The Way We Live Now
2001 · Series
Disco Pigs
2001 · Movie
On the Edge
2001 · Movie
Watchmen
2001 · Movie
Filleann an Feall
2000 · Movie
A Man of Few Words
2000 · Movie
Sunburn
1999 · Movie
Eviction
1999 · Movie
The Trench
1999 · Movie
At Death's Door
1999 · Movie
Sweety Barrett
1999 · Movie
Quando
1997 · Movie
60 Minutes
1968 · Series
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Sacrifice
Movie
28 Years Later: Part III
Movie
Untitled Peaky Blinders Sequel
Series
Peaky Blinders: A Peek Behind the Curtain
Movie
Blood Runs Coal
Movie