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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 ... more

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.

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The Dark Knight
(2008)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal masterm...
Runtime:
152 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
9.0
94%
84
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Inception
(2010)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Runtime:
148 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy
8.8
87%
74
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The Dark Knight Rises
(2012)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms G...
Runtime:
165 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy
8.4
87%
78
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Batman Begins
(2005)
Action, Crime, Drama
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
8.2
84%
70
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Dunkirk
(2017)
Action, Drama, War
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Cast:
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
7.9
92%
94
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28 Days Later
(2002)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to con...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Danny Boyle
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Noah Huntley
7.6
87%
73
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Sunshine
(2007)
Science Fiction, Thriller
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Danny Boyle
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Chris Evans
7.2
77%
64
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Cold Mountain
(2003)
Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep thei...
Runtime:
154 min
Director:
Anthony Minghella
Cast:
Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson
7.2
70%
73
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TRON: Legacy
(2010)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Joseph Kosinski
Cast:
Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner, Yaya DaCosta
6.8
51%
49
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In Time
(2011)
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who comes into a fortune of time, though too late to help his m...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Andrew Niccol
Cast:
Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Alex Pettyfer
6.7
36%
53
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2006)
Drama, War
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Ken Loach
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Pádraic Delaney, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Gerard Kearney
7.5
90%
82
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In the Heart of the Sea
(2015)
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Ron Howard
Cast:
Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Benjamin Walker, Ben Whishaw, Tom Holland
6.9
43%
47
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
(2003)
Drama, Romance
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for on...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Peter Webber
Cast:
Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt
6.9
73%
72
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Red Eye
(2005)
Horror, Thriller
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Wes Craven
Cast:
Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays, Laura Johnson
6.5
79%
71
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Transcendence
(2014)
Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Wally Pfister
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman
6.3
20%
42
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Anthropoid
(2016)
History, Thriller, War
In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Sean Ellis
Cast:
Jamie Dornan, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones
7.2
66%
59
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Breakfast on Pluto
(2005)
Comedy, Drama
In the 1970s, a foundling lass, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Neil Jordan
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Laurence Kinlan, Stephen Rea
7.2
57%
59
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Free Fire
(2017)
Action, Crime, Mystery
A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Ben Wheatley
Cast:
Luke Evans, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Brie Larson, Brie Larson
6.4
69%
63
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Intermission
(2003)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
John Crowley
Cast:
Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney, Kelly Macdonald, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne
6.8
74%
64
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The Edge of Love
(2008)
Drama, History, Romance
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's childhood sweetheart Vera. Despite her joy at seeing Dylan after so many years, Vera is swept off her feet by a dashing officer, William Killick, and finds herself torn between the open adorat...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
John Maybury
Cast:
Keira Knightley, Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Lisa Stansfield
6.2
37%
39
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The Party
(2017)
Comedy, Drama
Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Runtime:
71 min
Cast:
Timothy Spall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones
6.6
N/A
73
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Peacock
(2010)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are a man and a wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the two personalities.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Michael Lander
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon, Josh Lucas, Jaimi Paige
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Perrier's Bounty
(2009)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Ian Fitzgibbon
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Padraic Delaney, Natalie Britton
6.4
57%
47
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Disco Pigs
(2001)
Drama
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday t...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Kirsten Sheridan
Cast:
Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brían F. O'Byrne, Eleanor Methven, Geraldine O'Rawe
6.8
20%
N/A
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Watching the Detectives
(2007)
Comedy, Romance
Neil, a self proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Paul Soter
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Panes, Michael Panes
6.3
N/A
N/A
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On the Edge
(2001)
Drama, Romance
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Runtime:
85 min
7.1
63%
N/A
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The Way We Live Now
(2001)
Drama, Romance
The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel The Way We Live Now. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark. David Suchet starred as Auguste Melmotte, with Shirley Henderson as his daughter Marie...
Runtime:
300 min
7.8
N/A
N/A
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The Trench
(1999)
History, War
The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front ...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
William Boyd
Cast:
Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy, Paul Nicholls, Julian Rhind-Tutt
6.1
N/A
58
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The Silent City
(2006)
Science Fiction
The story revolves around 3 soldiers who are on the outskirts of a war torn city. They are patrolling an area when a bomb is accidentally set off and they have to wait for help.
Runtime:
7 min
Director:
Ruairi Robinson
Cast:
Don Wycherley, Garvan Mcgrath, Cillian Murphy
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Aloft
(2014)
Drama
As we follow a mother and her son, we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own and a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the ...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Claudia Llosa
Cast:
Jennifer Connelly, Mélanie Laurent, Cillian Murphy, William Shimell, Zen McGrath
5.3
16%
34
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How Harry Became a Tree
(2002)
Drama, Western
Set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty – the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local pub and most of the businesses in the area, but is also the local matchmaker. When Harry's son Gus (Cillian Murphy) – upon whom Harry regular...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Goran Paskaljević
Cast:
Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon
6.8
N/A
N/A
Sunburn
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Sunburn
(1999)
Comedy, Drama
Davin McDerby is a handsome, irresponsible slacker who arrives in Montauk Long Island for a summer of fun. He has no intention of working too hard and every intention of enjoying himself as much as possible while simultaneously escaping the pressing problems that await him back home in Ireland. Over a summer of car-jacking, pool-hoppin...
Runtime:
86 min
Director:
Nelson Hume
Cast:
Paloma Baeza, Cillian Murphy, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth
(2015)
Documentary
This landmark series explores a vast ocean that stretches nearly 10,000 miles, from Arctic to Antarctic and from sun-drenched tropical reefs to crushing abyssal depths. Over three programmes it reveals the amazing, surprising and resilient inhabitants of the Atlantic, both animals and people, as they pit themselves against the world’s ...
Runtime:
150 min
8.0
N/A
N/A
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At Death's Door
(1999)
Drama
Death is training his son in the art and responsibilities of the family business. His son does well until he's sent out on his own to claim an accident victim. Instead, he's asked by a friend of the dying man to help with CPR. Taken aback, he assents, the dying man is resuscitated, and Death's son is in the doghouse with dad. Enraged, ...
Runtime:
14 min
Cast:
Cillian Murphy
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Watchmen
(2001)
Comedy, Crime
This brisk comedy of errors, penned by two-time onscreen lovers Paloma Baeza and Cillian Murphy, stakes out multiple perspectives on a series of bumbling petty crimes. Late in the evening, friends Phil (Cillian Murphy) and Ray (Barry Ward) look out of their window as two unidentified men hid from the police outside the door of a neighb...
Runtime:
11 min
Director:
Paloma Baeza
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Barry Ward, Jake Wood, Iain Robertson, Con O'Neill
7.0
N/A
N/A
The Water
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The Water
(2009)
Drama
Father and son bring their painful past into their isolated present for 24 hours. Set in the middle of a cold beautiful winter, "The Water" explores the complex and intimate dynamic between loved ones and loss. "The Water" unfolds with almost no dialogue, like a visual poem, infusing a hermetic world with regret, anticipation, and irre...
Runtime:
16 min
Director:
Kevin Drew
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Leslie Feist, David Fox
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Sweety Barrett
(1999)
Drama
Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation unleashing a spiral of dangerous and unexpected events.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Stephen Bradley
Cast:
Brendan Gleeson, Brendan O'Carroll, Tony Rohr, Andrew Scott, Liam Cunningham
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Filleann an Feall
(2000)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two Dubs, Sean and Ger, get wind of the proverbial pot of gold and what should be a straight-forward job becomes a fiasco. But, there's an old Irish saying - "Filleann an feall ar an bhfeallaire - What goes around comes around".
Runtime:
28 min
Director:
Frankie McCafferty
Cast:
Don Wycherley, Cillian Murphy
7.8
N/A
N/A
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Eviction
(1999)
Drama
Set in 19th Century Ireland, the 'Molly Maguires' take revenge on an old man who has been telling tales to the Landlord.
Runtime:
12 min
Director:
Tom Waller
Cast:
Rupert Vansittart, Denys Hawthorne, Maria Lennon, Cillian Murphy, Mark Lambert
7.0
N/A
N/A
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A Man of Few Words
(2000)
Drama
A father of the bride (Eamonn Hunt), usually a teetotaler, gets drunk to cope with the anxiety of delivering his reception speech, because he has a stutter. Mayhem ensues, and the wedding party, including the best man (Cillian Murphy), try to do damage control.
Runtime:
12 min
Cast:
Cillian Murphy, Johnny Ward
7.1
N/A
N/A