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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.
Basil Karlo has loved film since he first watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as a young boy. Now, he has grown up to become an actor. He slowly gains popularity due to his good looks and impeccable acting ability. Despite getting offers for many high brow films, he consistently chooses B-list horror films in the hopes to inspire a new generation of actors, much like how he was inspired as a young boy. He ultimately stars in his magnum opus, A Night in Horror Castle, which truly launches his career as well as the industry seeing horror films in a new light. After a string of successful films, he slowly starts to die out in popularity. With this, he takes any low brow film he can find, even starring in pornographic films. He soon learns that the film that was his opus is getting remade, without him as the star. He begins to spiral out of control and into a realm of insanity. So much so, he realizes that he must get revenge on the people who have done this to him... A 'Joker' style villain story.
