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Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. He started his performing career as the lead singer, pianist, and songwriter of a rock band named The Sons of Mr. Green Genes. Murphy turned down a record deal in the late 1990s and began acting on stage and in short and independent films.

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Filmography

Peaky Blinders

2013
as Thomas "Tommy" Shelby

Oppenheimer

2023
as J. Robert Oppenheimer

Inception

2010
as Robert Fischer

In Time

2011
as Timekeeper Raymond Leon

Batman Begins

2005
as Dr. Jonathan Crane

Dunkirk

2017
as Shivering Soldier

A Quiet Place Part II

2021
as Emmett

The Dark Knight

2008
as Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow

ANNA

2019
as Lenny Miller

28 Days Later

2002
as Jim

The Dark Knight Rises

2012
as Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow

In the Heart of the Sea

2015
as Matthew Joy

Red Eye

2005
as Jackson Rippner

Transcendence

2014
as Agent Donald Buchanan

TRON: Legacy

2010
as Edward Dillinger

The Edge of Love

2008
as William Killick

Girl with a Pearl Earring

2004
as Pieter

Cold Mountain

2003
as Bardolph

Sunshine

2007
as Robert Capa

Red Lights

2012
as Tom Buckley

Peacock

2010
as Emma Skillpa

Lennon or McCartney

2014
as Himself (archive footage)

Intermission

2003
as John

Retreat

2011
as Martin

The Making of Dunkirk

2017
as himself

All of This Unreal Time

2021

The Trench

1999
as Rag Rookwood

Sunburn

1999
as Davin McDerby

Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

2015
as Narrator

Perrier's Bounty

2009
as Michael McCrea

The Silent City

2006
as Unnamed Character

Anthropoid

2016
as Josef Gabčík

Kensuke's Kingdom

2023
as Dad

Peacock

2010
as John Skillpa

Small Things Like These

2024
as Bill Furlong

Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth

2015
as Self - Narrator

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

2016
as Cillian Murphy

At Death's Door

1999
as Young Reaper

Watching the Detectives

2007
as Neil

Aloft

2014
as Ivan

The Way We Live Now

2001
as Paul Montague

Watchmen

2001
as Phil

The Delinquent Season

2018
as Jim

28 Years Later

2025
as Jim

Breakfast on Pluto

2005
as Patrick 'Kitten' Braden

Filleann an Feall

2000
as Ger

Sweety Barrett

1999
as Pat the Barman

How to Make a Ken Loach Film

2016
as Interviewee

Pure Rage: The Making of '28 Days Later'

2002
as Cillian Murphy

The Party

2017
as Tom

Disco Pigs

2001
as Pig / Darren

Eviction

1999
as Brendan McBride

The Water - Feist

2009
as Son

Broken

2012
as Mike Kiernan

Free Fire

2017
as Chris

On the Edge

2001
as Jonathan Breech

Harriet and the Matches

2013
as Cat

Blood Runs Coal

as Chip Yablonski

From the Mountain

2024
as Man

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

2006
as Damien O'Donovan

The Overcoat

2018
as Akaky (voice)

Steve

as Steve

The Immortal Man

as Thomas Shelby

How Harry Became a Tree

2001
as Gus

The Story of Our Time: The Making of Oppenheimer

2023
as Himself

Writer

Movie Watchmen 2001

Producer

Movie 28 Years Later 2025

Guest Star

Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Cillian Murphy & Margot Robbie 		2023
Episode A World of Calm
Snowfall 		2020
Episode The Irish Revolution
We Lived In Dreams 		2019
Episode The Irish Revolution
That The Nation May Live 		2019
Episode The Irish Revolution
The Spirit Of Freedom 		2019
Episode El Hormiguero
Rodrigo Cortés y Cillian Murphy 		2012
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Keegan-Michael Key, Cillian Murphy 		2017
Episode The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Cillian Murphy, Jennifer Carpenter, Metallica 		2014
Episode Late Night with Seth Meyers
Emily Ratajkowski, Cillian Murphy, David Simon 		2020
Episode Movies With Ali Plumb
Becoming... Thomas Shelby: A Peaky Blinders Special 		2022
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Michael Che, Dave Chappelle, Cillian Murphy, The Linda Lindas 		2021