Mike Figgis
British composer, film director and screenwriter
Cillian Murphy is an acclaimed Irish actor who has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, for his work in film, television, and theater. He has collaborated extensively with director Christopher Nolan and is best known for his roles in the Peaky Blinders TV series, the Oppenheimer biopic, and horror films like A Quiet Place Part II.
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Cillian Murphyis an Irish actor. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Golden Globe Award.
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 film credits include the horror film 28 Days Lateras well as appearing in Inceptionand Dunkirkand for starring in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020). Murphy portrayed J. Robert Oppenheimer in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2011, Murphy won the 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 of all time.
Cillian Murphy has won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award for his acting work.
Cillian Murphy gained greater prominence for his role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders, which ran from 2013 to 2022.
In 2023, Cillian Murphy portrayed J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Cillian Murphy has starred in several horror films, including the 2002 film 28 Days Later and the 2020 sequel A Quiet Place Part II.
Cillian Murphy was born on May 25, 1976 in Ireland.
Cillian Murphy made his professional debut in Enda Walsh’s 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation.
Cillian Murphy has collaborated extensively with director Christopher Nolan, playing the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy, as well as appearing in Inception and Dunkirk.
What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.
Irish actor
There’s a lot of comedy in Intermission but it’s got this depth. It’s not comedy for comedy’s sake – it’s informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
Irish actor
I don’t have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Irish actor
I’d love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
Irish actor
My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.
Irish actor
It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great – everybody working together. Sometimes it didn’t feel like a film set. It wasn’t technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.
Irish actor
The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.
Irish actor
Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it’s easy to be camp or queen. Anyone can do that. What’s difficult is to play feminine.
Irish actor
I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker.
Irish actor
It’s obvious that if you’re going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they’re in and use as little or as much as necessary.
Irish actor
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can.
Irish actor
I enjoy all aspects of it, I don’t have a preference for any medium. I think each of them has its attractions and I would hope they each inform the other in some way.
Irish actor
At the moment I’m doing this space movie, so I’m obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it’s gone. Then I’ll be able to superficially say stuff about space.
Irish actor