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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor and film producer. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Born 25 May 1976 · Q202589
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“I sang and played guitar. We specialised in wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos. It was touch and go there for a while between rock music and movies, but I think I made the right choice.”
“The live nature of it makes it so dangerous. You”
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“[The scripts] were so compelling and confident, and the character was so rich and complex, layered and contradictory. I was like,”
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The Guardian: Snoop Dogg, pigsty fights and the wrong kind of snow: Cillian Murphy and Barry Keoghan on making the Peaky Blinders movie
That he has "always been pescatarian" and "[doesn't] eat any meat"
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Murphy reprised his role as Shelby in the film Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, which served as a continuation of the Peaky Blinders series
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The Guardian: Cillian Murphy meets Barry Keoghan in first look at Peaky Blinders film
The Guardian: ‘They were so feral’: Cillian Murphy, Tracey Ullman and cast on nose-breaking remand school drama Steve
The Guardian: Steve review – Cillian Murphy is outstanding in ferocious reform school drama
Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated the claim “Cillian Murphy is the skeletal zombie in ’28 Years Later’ trailer !!” False.
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The Guardian: Emaciated zombie in 28 Years Later is not Cillian Murphy, sources confirm
The Guardian: Cillian Murphy as Voldemort? Everything we know about HBO’s Harry Potter TV show
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “A video shows Cillian Murphy waving a Palestinian flag” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Cillian Murphy waving Palestinian flag Peaky Blinders Set” Different Man.
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The Guardian: Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy shines as quiet hero in powerful 80s Ireland morality tale
Awarded Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Oppenheimer (2024).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Oppenheimer (2024).
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Oppenheimer (2024).
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The Quint rated the claim “Deepika Padukone, Cillian Murphy, and Bradley Cooper were photographed together at the 2024 BAFTA awards.” False.
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Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows actor Cillian Murphy correct Prince Harry about his nationality being Irish, not British.” This is not a genuine exchange between the two individuals. The video has been edited to include old audio of a real conversation between the actor and an interviewer in 2010 dubbed over a clip of a different event..
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Fact Crescendo Sri Lanka rated the claim “The Oppenheimer Actor, Cillian Murphy, Corrected Prince Harry On His Nationality !!” Altered.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “A video shows Cillian Murphy telling Prince Harry, "No I'm Irish"” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “A video shows actor Cillian Murphy schooling Prince Harry about the difference between Britain and Ireland.” fake.
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Oppenheimer (2023).
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Murphy went on to call this moment in time pivotal: "It all happened to me in one month, in August '96: (my band) got offered a record deal, I failed my law exams, I got the part in Disco Pigs, and I met my wife
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Said the Catholic faith still shaped his morality
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows actors Heath Ledger and Cillian Murphy posing together.” False.
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Upon being asked his opinion on the "Disappointed Cillian Murphy" meme, he answered, "What's a meme
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In 2017, upon being asked his opinion on the "Disappointed Cillian Murphy" meme, he answered, "What's a meme?"
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Murphy played a shell-shocked army officer who is recovered from a wrecked ship in Christopher Nolan's war film Dunkirk, which emerged as a critical and box-office success
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Murphy starred in Ben Wheatley's Free Fire, and appeared in Anthropoid, in which he portrayed Czechoslovak World War II army soldier Jozef Gabčík, who was involved in Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard H
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Murphy was named one of GQ's 50 best-dressed men, and in 2024, he was announced as the new face of Italian luxury fashion company Versace
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Contributed spoken vocals to the tracks "8:58" and "The Clock" from Paul Hartnoll's album 8:58
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In 2015, Murphy was named one of GQ's 50 best-dressed men, and in 2024, he was announced as the new face of Italian luxury fashion company Versace.
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Murphy starred in the drama Aloft, and Wally Pfister's Transcendence
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Murphy made his directorial debut with a music video for the band Money's single Hold Me Forever
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Murphy starred as Thomas Shelby in the BBC television series Peaky Blinders, a series about a criminal gang in Birmingham during the post-World War I period
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Awarded Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show (2012).
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Became a patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the University of Galway
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Murphy performed in the stage monodrama Misterman, written and directed by Enda Walsh, with whom he had previously worked on Disco Pigs
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Made a return to theatre in From Galway to Broadway and back again, which was a stage show that celebrated the Druid Theatre Company's 35th birthday
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Murphy starred opposite rock singer Feist and actor David Fox in The Water, directed by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene
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But the project, much delayed, was eventually shelved in 2011
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Murphy starred in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film about the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, which won the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and became the most successful Irish indepe
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Playing the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017)
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Prepared for the role by meeting a transvestite who dressed him and took him clubbing with other transvestites
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Murphy toured Ireland with the Druid Theatre Company, in The Playboy of the Western World (playing the character of Christy Mahon) under the direction of Garry Hynes—who had previously directed Murphy back in 1999 in the
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Murphy married his longtime girlfriend Yvonne McGuinness, whom he met at one of his rock band's shows in 1996
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In 2004, Murphy married his longtime girlfriend Yvonne McGuinness, whom he met at one of his rock band's shows in 1996.
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“The film did so well. And you watch zombie stuff [now], we were the first people to make zombies run, and [that] changed everything. It has a very special place in my heart, that movie.”
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Murphy played the role of Konstantine in a stage production of Chekhov's The Seagull at the Edinburgh International Festival
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Murphy starred as Adam in a theatre production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things at the Gate Theatre in Dublin
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And, though Jordan liked him for the part, the director of The Crying Game was hesitant to revisit transgender and IRA issues
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But failed his first-year exams because he "had no ambitions to do it"
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Studied at University College Cork (1996).
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Born 1976-05-25.
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“in CNN (11 May 2023) I was a Chris Nolan fan. That’s how I was when I met him for the first time … So, it feels absurd that I’ve been in six of his films.”
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“in CNN (11 May 2023) We made a film about the man who created the atomic bomb, and for better or for worse, we’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world. So I would really like to dedicate this to the peacemakers everywhere.”
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