Cillian Murphy

Acting · Born 1976-05-25 in Douglas, Cork, Ireland

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…

Filmography

• The Dark Knight as Scarecrow
• 28 Days Later as Jim
• Batman Begins as Dr. Jonathan Crane
• The Wind That Shakes the Barley as Damien
• Sunshine as Capa
• Breakfast on Pluto as Patrick 'Kitten' Braden
• Oppenheimer as J. Robert Oppenheimer
• Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man as Thomas 'Tommy' Shelby
• Cold Mountain as Bardolph
• Inception as Robert Fischer, Jr.

TV

• Peaky Blinders as Thomas Shelby
• Fight for First: Excel Esports as Narrator
• The Way We Live Now as Paul Montague
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
• Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
• 60 Minutes as Self
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
• The Oscars as Self