Cillian Murphy Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actor , Producer , Executive producer
Nationality Irish
Birth May 25, 1976 (Douglas, Cork – Ireland)\

BIOGRAPHY
Cillian Murphy was born to a mother who was a French teacher and a father who worked for the Irish Department of Education. It was in the theater that he first became known, notably with a performance in the play Disco Pigs , but also in Much Ado About Nothing and The Shape of Things , directed by Neil LaBute . After a few telefilms and confidential feature films, Cillian Murphy began to make a name for himself in England with a role in La Vie à la Folie then, a year later, by appearing in Disco Pigs , an adaptation of the play that he played a few years earlier.

In 2003, he achieved international recognition by starring in the post-apocalyptic horror film 28 Days Later by Danny Boyle , then by appearing in Intermission by John Crowley , an choral film set in the heart of the working-class neighborhoods of Dublin which receives no less than four IFTA Awards (the equivalent of the Césars in Ireland). In 2004, he appeared in two major American productions: Cold Mountain and Girl with a Pearl Earring . He then left period films for Gotham City, where he took on the trappings of the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005). Having made a name for himself on the international scene, he can be found in Wes Craven

‘s thriller , Red-eye (2005). Then he shared the poster again with his compatriot, Liam Neeson in Breakfast on Pluto by Neil Jordan . In 2006, he was in the casting of Ken Loach ‘s film , The Wind Rises , about the Irish War of Independence, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Continuing an eclectic career, he reunited with Boyle for the science fiction film Sunshine in which he had to reignite the sun which was about to go out and Nolan for The Dark Knight , considered the best Batman. Alternating between Irish productions and Hollywood productions, the Douglas native was offered a prize in Perrier’s Bounty by Brendan Gleeson , before reuniting with director Christopher Nolan in the futuristic thriller Inception , alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and other big stars like Marion Cotillard , Tom Hardy or

Joseph Gordon-Levitt . Having become a sort of favorite actor of the filmmaker, Cillian shot again under his leadership in 2012 for The Dark Knight Rises then, four years later, for his realistic blockbuster set during the Second World War, Dunkirk .

Before that, the Irishman became the hero of the British series Peaky Blinders . He plays Tommy Shelby, the head of a family of gangsters in Birmingham in the 1920s. The actor manages a career between cinema and television, between blockbusters (Transcendence with Johnny Depp , In the Heart of the Ocean by Ron Howard ) and independent films ( Broken with Tim Roth , Free Fire by Ben Wheatley ). He also stars alongside legend Robert De Niro in the thriller Red Lights . In 2016, Cillian shared the stage with Jennifer Connelly and Mélanie Laurent in the drama The Dream Catcher .

Alongside Peaky Blinders, which enjoyed increasing success with international audiences until it ended in 2022, Cillian Murphy starred in films as diverse as The Party , Dunkirk , Anna and Quietly 2 , in which he joins Emily Blunt . He once again teamed up with Christopher Nolan, who offered him the lead role in the biopic Oppenheimer . For the occasion, the Irish actor slips into the shoes of Robert Oppenheimer, an American scientist who was asked to develop atomic weapons during the Second World War. The actor explains:

“I always told Chris Nolan, publicly and privately, that if I was available and he wanted me in a film, I would always be there. No matter how big the role. However, deep down, secretly, I was dying to play a lead role for him. He simply said to me: Listen, I wrote this script about Oppenheimer. I would like you to be my Oppenheimer. It was a great day. It seemed like a good time to take on such a responsibility. And it turns out it was a really big one. It’s a lot of pressure.”

“The character was complex, contradictory and so iconic. But I knew I was working with one of the greatest directors of all time. I felt confident. He had a profound impact on my life, both on the both creative and professional.”