Cillian Murphy is read about 12,480 times a day, in 82 languages.
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Something wrong?The face that turned J. Robert Oppenheimer into a Best Actor win in 2023 belongs to an Irish actor who spent two decades doing horror, Nolan ensemble pieces, and a Birmingham gangster before the Academy noticed.
A life in dates
28 Years Later: The Bone TempleFilm14 January 2026, Producer2024“We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world.”In their words10 March 2024Vanity Fair, 10 March 2024“You find so much empathy in novels, you know, because there you are putting yourself into somebody else's point of view, and I've always been a big reader.”In their words18 February 2024“I love it when it becomes an immersive experience. I love getting lost in it. In the early days, that was with theater.”In their words18 February 2024“But, when a film connects with audiences like this particular one has in a way that none of us could have anticipated...”In their words7 February 2024BBC, 7 February 2024Academy Award for Best ActorAwardBAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleAwardScreen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading RoleAward, 2024
Kensuke's KingdomFilm, 2024Dad (voice)2023“I don’t really partake. I don’t go out. I’m just at home mostly, or with my friends, unless I have a film to promote. I don’t like being photographed by people.”In their words11 May 2023CNN, 11 May 2023“Well, first of all, it's imperative not to judge the character. Because then you've lost as a performer. You have to try and understand [them].”In their words"Cillian Murphy: “I wasn't great craic to hang out with on the Oppenheimer set”" in GQ (2023)Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture DramaAward
OppenheimerFilm, 2023J. Robert Oppenheimer2021
Fight for First: Excel EsportsSeries, Narrator2020
A World of CalmSeries, Narrator2019
AnnaFilm, Lenny Miller2018
The Delinquent SeasonFilm, Jim2016
AnthropoidFilm, Josef Gabčík2015
Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on EarthSeries2014
Late Night with Seth MeyersSeries
AloftFilm, 2014Ivan2013
Peaky BlindersSeries, Producer2012Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person ShowAward
BrokenFilm, 2012Mike Kiernan2010
InceptionFilm, Robert Fischer, Jr.2007
SunshineFilm, Capa2006
The Wind That Shakes the BarleyFilm, Damien2005
The Late Late Show with Craig FergusonSeries2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!Series
Cold MountainFilm, 2003Bardolph2002
28 Days LaterFilm, Jim2001
The Way We Live NowSeries, Paul Montague1999
The TrenchFilm, Rag Rookwood1976Born25 May 1976Also in Deutsch
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Murphy (second from right) with Tim Smyth, Eoin O'Sullivan and Maria-Theresa Grandfield in 1992
Murphy at the 2005 New York Film Festival
Murphy (far left) with the cast of Inception in 2010
Murphy at the premiere of the second season of Peaky Blinders in 2014
Murphy at a press conference for The Party at the Berlinale in 2017In their own words 10
, I come from theater, and I love acting with my body.
We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world.
You find so much empathy in novels, you know, because there you are putting yourself into somebody else's point of view, and I've always been a big reader.
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YT28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
PMPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
YL28 Years Later
STSteve
STSmall Things Like TheseKKKensuke's KingdomOPOppenheimer
AIA Quiet Place Part IIANAnnaTSThe Delinquent Season
DUDunkirk
FFFree Fire
TPThe PartyANAnthropoid
ISIn the Heart of the Sea
TRTranscendenceALAloft
TRThe Dark Knight Rises
RLRed LightsBRBroken
ITIn Time
RERetreatINInception
TLTRON: Legacy
PEPeacock
PBPerrier's Bounty
TKThe Dark Knight
TLThe Edge of LoveSUSunshine
WDWatching the DetectivesTBThe Wind That Shakes the Barley
BBBatman Begins
RERed Eye
BPBreakfast on PlutoCMCold Mountain
GEGirl with a Pearl Earring
INIntermissionDL28 Days Later
DPDisco PigsTTThe Trench99 credits on file
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FEFight for First: Excel EsportsACA World of Calm
TRThe Irish Revolution
TCThe Late Show with Stephen ColbertAEAtlantic: The Wildest Ocean on EarthLMLate Night with Seth Meyers
VAVariety Studio: Actors on ActorsPBPeaky Blinders
TSThe Graham Norton ShowTFThe Late Late Show with Craig FergusonJLJimmy Kimmel Live!TNThe Way We Live Now
MI60 Minutes
TOThe Oscars
GAGolden Globe Awards
USUntitled Peaky Blinders SequelAwards
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Cillian Murphy started on stage in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs in 1996, then moved to film with 28 Days Later in 2002. He played a transgender woman in Breakfast on Pluto in 2005, earning his first Golden Globe nomination, and appeared in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Red Eye, and Sunshine through the mid-2000s. Christopher Nolan cast him across five films - the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Dunkirk - before handing him the lead in Oppenheimer, which won Murphy the Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe for Best Actor in 2023. Between Nolan projects he anchored six seasons of Peaky Blinders as Tommy Shelby, a role that carried into a 2026 film continuation.
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