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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.
Cillian Murphy
Helmut Zemo
for Helmut Zemo in Captain America: New Allegiance
Suggested by vadim_havard
The movie opens with a flashback to world war 2 where James Barnes is thrown down a mountain and supposedly dies. We see James wake up strapped to a table where a man in a purple mask is doing surgery on him. The man says his name is Baron Zemo and he has turned James into the perfect weapon. James starts getting dizzy and passes out. When he comes to James seems to be fully committed to Hydra. We cut to the present day with Steve Rogers and Nick Fury trying to start work on the Avengers Tower after the mansion was destroyed during the war. Just then Fury is shot in the shoulder by the man who killed Thaddeus Ross. Steve chases after him and the two start fighting from roof to roof throughout the city. Eventually Steve catches up, gets him to the ground, and takes his mask off to see that it's James, We cut back to the flashbacks of James being tortured and controlled by Hydra while Zemo tries to make contact with the Red Skull. We cut back to the present as Steve processes James still being alive. Just then a man jumps out of a jet and lands next to them and shoots Steve. He says he is Crossbones and was hired to help the Winter Solider kill Nick Fury. James watches as Steve fights this man and while watching breaks his mind control for a little and stops Crossbones. He tells Steve to go and is shot and tasered by Hydra's men and taken away. The movie ends with Steve visiting an old friend named Sam Wilson and telling him they need to save James.
