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Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976) is an Irish actor. 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 notable film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (2005), the Irish war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), and the science fiction thriller Sunshine (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. Murphy began collaborating with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017) and portraying the lead role of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biographical epic Oppenheimer (2023). By the year 2023, Murphy has already worked with Nolan for around 20 years and six films. He also gained prominence for his role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2022) and for starring in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020). In 2011, Murphy won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor and 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.
After the deaths of the dead Oedipus’ sons Eteocles and Polynices (who have both recently died at each other’s hands in a civil war for the Theban throne), Oedipus' brother-in-law and new Theban King Creon has ordered the public honoring of Eteocles and the public shaming of Thebes' traitor Polynices. However, their sister Antigone attempts to bury the body of Polynices, going against her uncle Creon’s decree and placing her relationship with her brother above human laws. As a result she is captured, tried and sentenced to death by live entombment. Eventually, Antigone hangs herself in her underground tomb, which leads to the suicide of her fiancé and Croen’s son, Haemon. Upon learning of her son’s death, Creon’s wife, Eurydice, kills herself too.
