
Cillian Murphy
Highest Rated: 94% The Dark Knight (2008)
Lowest Rated: 17% Aloft (2014)
Birthday: May 25, 1976
Birthplace: Douglas, Cork, Ireland
After cutting his teeth creatively as an amateur musician and later dropping out of law school, Irish-born Cillian Murphy segued into acting with an attention-grabbing performance in the stark, two-character stage drama "Disco Pigs." The surprise hit transformed Murphy's life, leading him on an almost two-year tour across Europe, Canada and Australia. He eventually landed his first film roles, mainly in British-made independents, before finally achieving international stardom with director Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller, "28 Days Later" (2002), which soon opened the doors to Hollywood. Following a small role in the Oscar-nominated "Cold Mountain" (2003), Murphy proved an able villain as the menacing Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" (2005) and a terrifying flight companion in the thriller "Red Eye" (2005). Though he drifted back into more independent-minded movies like Neil Jordan's "Breakfast on Pluto" (2005), Boyle's small-scale sci-fi adventure "Sunshine" (2007) and Sally Potter's comedy "The Party" (2017), Murphy was equally comfortable appearing in high-profile Hollywood films like Ron Howard's whaling drama "In the Heart of the Sea" (2015) and Nolan's World War II drama "Dunkirk" (2017).






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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Oppenheimer | J. Robert Oppenheimer (Character) | - | 2023 |
91% | 92% | A Quiet Place Part II | Emmett (Character) | $160.2M | 2021 |
33% | 81% | Anna | Lenny Miller (Character) | $7.7M | 2019 |
67% | 70% | The Delinquent Season | Jim (Character) | - | 2017 |
82% | 61% | The Party | Tom (Character) | $748.9K | 2017 |
92% | 81% | Dunkirk | Shivering Soldier (Character) | $188.0M | 2017 |
70% | 52% | Free Fire | Chris (Character) | $1.8M | 2016 |
67% | 71% | Anthropoid | Josef GabcÃk (Character) | $3.0M | 2016 |
42% | 54% | In the Heart of the Sea | Matthew Joy (Character) | $23.1M | 2015 |
17% | 25% | Aloft | Ivan (Character) | $53.0K | 2014 |
19% | 37% | Transcendence | Agent Buchanan (Character) | $23.0M | 2014 |
63% | 73% | Broken | Mike Kiernan (Character) | - | 2012 |
30% | 36% | Red Lights | Tom Buckley (Character) | $49.3K | 2012 |
37% | 51% | In Time | Raymond Leon (Character) | $37.6M | 2011 |
62% | 40% | Retreat | Martin (Character) | - | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telepathy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
51% | 63% | Tron: Legacy | Edward Dillinger (Character) | $172.1M | 2010 |
87% | 91% | Inception | Robert Fischer, Jr. (Character) | $292.6M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | 48% | Peacock |
John/ |
- | 2010 |
55% | 47% | Perrier's Bounty | Michael (Character) | $828 | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 67% | Hippie Hippie Shake | Richard Neville (Character) | - | 2009 |
56% | 59% | Waveriders | Narrator | - | 2008 |
37% | 43% | The Edge of Love | William Killick (Character) | $28.6K | 2008 |
94% | 94% | The Dark Knight | Scarecrow (Character) | $2.0M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 52% | Watching the Detectives | Neil (Character) | - | 2007 |
76% | 73% | Sunshine | Capa (Character) | $3.7M | 2007 |
90% | 87% | The Wind That Shakes the Barley | Damien O'Donovan (Character) | $1.8M | 2006 |
57% | 80% | Breakfast on Pluto | Patrick "Kitten" Brady (Character) | $828.7K | 2005 |
79% | 64% | Red Eye | Jackson Rippner (Character) | $57.9M | 2005 |
84% | 94% | Batman Begins |
Dr. Jonathan Crane/ |
$206.9M | 2005 |
74% | 75% | Intermission | John (Character) | $889.9K | 2003 |
73% | 68% | Girl With a Pearl Earring | Pieter (Character) | $11.6M | 2003 |
87% | 85% | 28 Days Later | Jim (Character) | $45.1M | 2002 |
20% | 75% | Disco Pigs |
Pig / |
- | 2001 |
67% | 79% | On the Edge | Jonathan Breech (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 62% | How Harry Became a Tree | Gus (Character) | - | 2001 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Sunburn | Davin McDerby (Character) | - | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 41% | The Trench | Rag Rookwood (Character) | - | 1999 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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93% | 93% | Peaky Blinders |
Thomas Shelby (Character), Executive Producer |
2013-2014 2016-2017 2019 2022 |
No Score Yet | 31% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A World of Calm | Narrator | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 59% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
No Score Yet | 50% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Atlantic | Narrator | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Last Call With Carson Daly | Guest | 2014 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |