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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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Quiet Place Part II | Emmett (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 33% | 81% | Anna | Lenny Miller (Character) | $7.7M | 2019 |
| 67% | 69% | The Delinquent Season | Jim (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 93% | 81% | Dunkirk | Shivering Soldier (Character) | $188M | 2017 |
| 82% | 61% | The Party | Tom (Character) | $748.9K | 2017 |
| 66% | 71% | Anthropoid | Josef Gabcík (Character) | $3M | 2016 |
| 69% | 52% | Free Fire | Chris (Character) | $1.8M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the Heart of the Sea | Unknown (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 42% | 53% | In the Heart of the Sea | Matthew Joy (Character) | $23.1M | 2015 |
| 19% | 37% | Transcendence | Agent Buchanan (Character) | $23M | 2014 |
| 17% | 25% | Aloft | Ivan (Character) | $53K | 2014 |
| 30% | 36% | Red Lights | Tom Buckley (Character) | $49.3K | 2012 |
| 63% | 73% | Broken | Mike Kiernan (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 62% | 41% | Retreat | Martin (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telepathy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 36% | 51% | In Time | Raymond Leon (Character) | $37.6M | 2011 |
| 87% | 91% | Inception | Robert Fischer, Jr. (Character) | $292.6M | 2010 |
| 51% | 63% | Tron: Legacy | Edward Dillinger (Character) | $172.1M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Peacock |
John/ |
- | 2010 |
| 56% | 47% | Perrier's Bounty | Michael (Character) | $828 | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Hippie Hippie Shake | Richard Neville (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 37% | 43% | The Edge of Love | William Killick (Character) | $28.6K | 2008 |
| 56% | 59% | Waveriders | Narrator | - | 2008 |
| 94% | 94% | The Dark Knight | Scarecrow (Character) | $2M | 2008 |
| 77% | 73% | Sunshine | Capa (Character) | $3.7M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | Watching the Detectives | Neil (Character) | - | 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 |
| 84% | 94% | Batman Begins |
Dr. Jonathan Crane/ |
$206.9M | 2005 |
| 79% | 64% | Red Eye | Jackson Rippner (Character) | $57.9M | 2005 |
| 72% | 68% | Girl With a Pearl Earring | Pieter (Character) | $11.6M | 2003 |
| 73% | 75% | Intermission | John (Character) | $889.9K | 2003 |
| 87% | 85% | 28 Days Later | Jim (Character) | $45.1M | 2002 |
| 67% | 79% | On the Edge | Jonathan Breech (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 20% | 75% | Disco Pigs |
Pig / |
- | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 61% | How Harry Became a Tree | Gus (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | Sunburn | Davin McDerby (Character) | - | 1999 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A World of Calm | Narrator | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 34% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2020 |
| 93% | 94% | Peaky Blinders |
Thomas Shelby (Character), Executive Producer |
2019 2016-2017 2013-2014 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | 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 | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
QUOTES FROM Cillian Murphy CHARACTERS
Agent Buchanan says: Your Determined To Stop Any Attempt At What You Call Transcedence.
Agent Buchanan says: You think it's really him?
Joseph Tagger says: At any rate, his mind is evolving erratically. I'm not sure it matters anymore.
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: What is it with "nancy-boys" that you can't be bothered killing them?
Maggie says: Where's John?
John/Emma Skillpa says: Sleeping.
Raymond Leon says: You can run.
Will Salas says: So can you.
Icarus says: Ninety seven percent of shield in full sunlight.
Kaneda says: Final panel and closing of shield is secure.
Capa says: You have to move now! Captain!
Harvey says: Kaneda's not going to make it.
Capa says: Captain! You have-
Harvey says: It's too far.
Capa says: Have to move! Why isn't he moving?
Searle says: Kaneda. What do you see?
Capa says: A new star borne out of a dying one. I think it's going to be beautiful. No, I'm not scared.
Cassie says: I am.
Cassie says: It's different... thinking that you're going to die and then knowing that you will.
Capa says: That depends on what we can salvage from Icarus I.
Cassie says: No. We're going to die out here, like the other crew. I know it. So do you.
Capa says: Icarus?
Icarus says: Yes?
Capa says: Who is the fifth crew member?
Icarus says: Unknown.
Capa says: Where is the fifth crew member?
Icarus says: In the observation room.
Lisa Reisert says: Is it Jack for short?
Jackson says: No. I haven't gone by Jack since i was ten years old.
Jackson says: No. I haven't gone by Jack since I was ten years old.
Jackson says: Last names Rippner.
Lisa Reisert says: Jack Rippner.. Jack thee.. Ooohh.
Lisa Reisert says: Jack Rippner. Jack thee, ooohh.
Jackson says: There you go.
Lisa Reisert says: That wasn't very nice of your parents.
Jackson says: That's what i told them. Before i killed them.
Jackson says: That's what I told them, before I killed them.
Lisa Reisert says: That's actually my seat.
Jackson says: You're kidding.
Lisa Reisert says: Well, i don't know. that says 18G
Lisa Reisert says: Well, I don't know. That says 18G
Jackson says: You're not kidding.
Jackson says: Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: There's nothing to fear, but fear itself!
Jackson says: I'll fix it up!..
Jackson says: I'll fix it up!
Lisa Reisert says: Not in my house!....
Lisa Reisert says: Not in my house!
Rachel Dawes says: I do what I do to keep thugs like Falcone behind bars, not in therapy. I want my own psychiatric consultant to have full access to Falcone including blood work. Find out what exactly you put him on.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: First thing tomorrow, then.
Rachel Dawes says: Tonight. I've already paged Dr. Lehmann at County General.
Rachel Dawes says: What's "scarecrow"?
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Patients suffering delusional episodes often focus their paranoia on an external tormentor usually one conforming to Jungian archetypes. In this case, a scarecrow.
Rachel Dawes says: He's drugged?
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Psychopharmacology is my primary field. I'm a strong advocate. Outside, he was a giant.In here, only the mind can grant you power.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Psychopharmacology is my primary field. I'm a strong advocate. Outside, he was a giant. In here, only the mind can grant you power.
Rachel Dawes says: You enjoy the reversal.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: I respect the mind's power over the body. It's why I do what I do.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Would you like to see my mask? I use it in my experiments. Now, I'm probably not very frightening to a guy like you. But these crazies, they can't stand it.
Carmine Falcone says: So when did the nut take over the nut house? [Starts screaming]
Carmine Falcone says: So when did the nut take over the nut house?
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: They scream and they cry much as you're doing now. Well, he's not faking. Not that one. I'll talk to the judge and see if I can get him moved to the secure wing at Arkham. I can't treat him here.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Having trouble? Take a seat. Have a drink. You look like a man who takes himself too seriously. Do you want my opinion? You need to lighten up.
Darren ("Pig") says: Beautiful face, yours
Darren ("Pig") says: Beautiful face, yours.
Sinead ("Runt") says: What's the color of love, Pig?
Darren ("Pig") says: What sort of love, love?
Sinead ("Runt") says: Don't know. But you know the way things, they got a color. I wonder what the color of love is.
Darren ("Pig") says: Jesus, Runt. You could read a thousand thick books and never know the answer to that quiz.
Sinead ("Runt") says: It's be a good one to know, ah?
Darren ("Pig") says: It'd be brilliant, Runt. It's around here somewhere
Darren ("Pig") says: It'd be brilliant, Runt. It's around here somewhere.
Sinead ("Runt") says: Runt: Only a few moments old, and I start thinking things then. Staring at that white sky right above me. And I want for something altogether different. And that's when I hear him. Pig: [baby cries] Runt: And through the Noddy and Big Ears'd wall, I search after his cry. The cry so lonely it scares and makes me cry too. And all the sights that we could see, they go invisible when we hear each other's cries. And that's when the magic it all begin. It begin when the baby Pig, and baby Runt, state through their baby eyes, you see. And the crying and screaming all stop. Runt: From that moment on, we become one. And we need no one else. Nobody.
Sinead ("Runt") says: Only a few moments old, and I start thinking things then. Staring at that white sky right above me. And I want for something altogether different. And that's when I hear him.
Darren ("Pig") says: [baby cries]
Sinead ("Runt") says: And through the Noddy and Big Ears'd wall, I search after his cry. The cry so lonely it scares and makes me cry too. And all the sights that we could see, they go invisible when we hear each other's cries. And that's when the magic it all begin. It begin when the baby Pig, and baby Runt, state through their baby eyes, you see. And the crying and screaming all stop.
Sinead ("Runt") says: From that moment on, we become one. And we need no one else. Nobody.
Tom Buckley says: I stop deny myself....
Tom Buckley says: You can't deny yourself forever.
Tom Buckley says: And today it'll be over...for you and for me.
Tom Buckley says: Don't believe everything they tell you.
Tom Buckley says: You can't deny yourself.
Tom Buckley says: The only way to pull a rabbit out a hat is to put it there first.
Jim says: And then I wake up today in hospital. I wake up and I'm... I'm hallucinating or I'm...
Mark says: What's your name?
Jim says: Jim.
Mark says: I'm Mark. This is Selena. Ok, Jim. I've got some bad news.
Jim says: Please..
Corporal Mitchell says: Believe me, I'm not interested.
Mark says: A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, "Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there." And the man says, "No, it's not a lion. It's a giraffe."
Mark says: A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, 'Oi. You can't leave that lyin' there.' And the man says, 'No, it's not a lion. It's a giraffe.'
Jim says: [Doesn't respond]
Jim says: [doesn't respond]
Mark says: Completely humorless.
Hooker says: Oi. You doing business, do it somewhere else, love. This pavement's got my name on it.
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: And what, pray, is your name? Concrete?
Hooker says: My name is scratch your eyes out, and bite your bleed'n nose off. Which is what I'll do if you don't get off my patch.
Mr. Silky String says: She giving you trouble, son?
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: Oh, no trouble at all. We were just exchanging names.
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: If I wasn't a transvestite terrorist, would you marry me?
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: Not many people can take the tale of Patrick Braden, aka St. Kitten, who strutted the catwalks, face lit by a halo of flashbulbs as "oh!" she shrieks, "I told you, from my best side darlings."
Patrick (Patricia) 'Kitten' Braden says: Not many people can take the tale of Patrick Braden, aka St. Kitten, who strutted the catwalks, face lit by a halo of flashbulbs as 'oh!' she shrieks, 'I told you, from my best side darlings.'
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: There's nothing to fear, but fear itself!
Chechen says: Look at what your drugs did to my customers.
Scarecrow says: Buyer beware. I told you my compound would take you places. I never said they'd be places you wanted to go.
Chechen says: My business... repeat customers...
Scarecrow says: If you don't like what I have to offer, you can buy from someone else. Assuming Batman left anyone to buy from.
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: Don't let me find you out here again.
Brian says: We're trying to help you!
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: I don't need help.
Scarecrow says: Not my diagnosis!
Brian says: What gives you the right? What's the difference between you and me?
Robert Fischer Jr says: I know, Dad. I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
Maurice Fischer says: No, no, no... I was disappointed... that you tried.
Chechen says: Look what your drugs did to my customers!
Scarecrow says: [stepping out from the back of a van] Buyer beware. I told you my compound would take you places. I never said they would be place you wanted to go.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: They scream, and they cry! Much as you're doing now!
Jackson says: He doesn't move. Unless I say so. He's a good dog, he responds only to his master's voice. It'll all be over soon. The Keefes will be history, your dad will be safe, we'll both go back...
Jackson says: Thanks for the quickie.
Jackson says: One simple phone call saves your dad's life.
Robert Fischer Jr says: I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
Maurice Fischer says: No, no, no. I was disappointed that you tried.
Scarecrow says: Buyer Beware.I said my compound would take you places,I didn't say they'd take you places you wanted to go.
Scarecrow says: Buyer Beware. I said my compound would take you places, I didn't say they'd take you places you wanted to go.
Chechen says: My business,repeat customers.
Chechen says: My business, repeat customers.
Scarecrow says: You don't like what I have to offer,you can buy from someone else.Assuming Batman left anyone to buy from.
Scarecrow says: You don't like what I have to offer,you can buy from someone else. Assuming Batman left anyone to buy from.
John says: Yous can go fuck yourselves!
Selena says: Hannah, it's OK. He's not infected.
Hannah says: But I thought he was biting you.
Jim says: Kissing. I was kissing her. Are you stoned?
Selena says: It's a long story.
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: A taste of your own medicine, doctor? What have you been doing here? Who are you working for?
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Ra's... Ra's al Ghul.
Batman/Bruce Wayne says: Ra's al Ghul is dead. Who are you working for? Crane!
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: Dr. Crane isn't here right now. But if you like to make an appointment...
Raymond Leon says: No. It's just rare.
Lisa Reisert says: ...So you think think this is personal now?
Jackson says: just finishing the job..
Jackson says: Just finishing the job.
Lisa Reisert says: well you're too late, everyone's alive, in that hotel every single person is alive, what? you didn't know? you failed, ... Jack....
Lisa Reisert says: Well you're too late, everyone's alive, in that hotel every single person is alive, what? you didn't know? you failed, Jack...
Jackson says: (Getting angry to the highest level) I'll fix it up...
Jackson says: [getting angry to the highest level] I'll fix it up...
Lisa Reisert says: not in my house...(Jackson chase Lisa and Lisa take a run)
Lisa Reisert says: Not in my house... [Jackson chase Lisa and Lisa take a run]
Cobb says: Cobb: I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security. Robert Fischer: You're talking about dreams?
Cobb says: I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
Robert Fischer Jr says: You're talking about dreams?
Capa says: So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it.
Capa says: ...Eight astronauts, strapped to the back of the bomb... My bomb. Welcome to Icarus II.
Capa says: Eight astronauts, strapped to the back of the bomb... My bomb. Welcome to Icarus II.
Robert Fischer Jr says: I know dad, i know you were disappointed i couldn't be you.
Robert Fischer Jr says: I know dad, I know you were disappointed I couldn't be you.
Maurice Fischer says: No no no...i was disappointed...that you tried.
Maurice Fischer says: No no no... I was disappointed... that you tried.
Cobb says: There's one thing you should know about me. I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
Robert Fischer Jr says: You talkin' about dreams?
Jackson says: but it was beyond your control...
Jackson says: That it was beyond your control?
Lisa Reisert says: no... now, it would never happened again(stabs Jackson's neck by a pen)...
Lisa Reisert says: No... that it would never happen again. [she stabs him in the neck with a pen]
Jim says: No see this is a really shit idea. You know why this is a shit idea? Because it's really obviously a shit idea.
Jim says: No, no. No, see, this is a really shit idea. You know why? Because it's really obviously a shit idea.
Scarecrow says: I told you my drug would take you places, I never said they'd be places you wanted to go.
Scarecrow says: I told you my compound would take you places. I never said they'd be places you wanted to go.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: They scream, and they cry, much as your doing now.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: There's nothing to fear but fear himself!
Jackson says: Thanks for the quickie.
Jackson says: One phone call saves your dad's life.
Jackson says: One simple phone call saves your dad's life.
Robert Fischer Jr says: Couldn't someone have dreamed up a goddamn beach?!
Robert Fischer Jr says: Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamned beach?
Cobb says: I specialize in a very specific type of security. Subconscious security.
Robert Fischer Jr says: Are you talking about dreams? Are you talking about extraction?
Robert Fischer Jr says: Couldn't somebody have dreamt up a goddamn beach?
Jim says: Oh, great. Valium. Not only will we be able to go to sleep, if we get attacked in the middle of the night, we won't even care.
Capa says: So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it. Okay, I'm signing out.
Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow says: I am more than aware that you are not intimidated by *me*, Mr. Falcone. But you know who I'm working for, and when he gets here...