Age: 50
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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
Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow
for Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in Gotham Knights
Suggested by ojmcclanahan
This story picks up eight years after the events of The Dark Knight Rises. Bruce Wayne is still presumed to be dead and former GCPD Detective John Blake has been acting as Gotham City's Dark Knight. He didn't take up the mantle of Batman however. Instead, John Blake took to the rooftops as Red Robin with Commissioner Jim Gordon and Lucius Fox assisting him as they did Bruce Wayne years ago. Now, a gang war between newly minted crime lords Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot and Roman "Black Mask" Sionis has erupted in the streets of Gotham. When Jim Gordon is tragically killed in the crossfire, his daughter Barbara, now a discharged U.S. Marine, returns to Gotham looking for answers, and vengeance. Barbara joins John Blake and takes up the mantle of "Batwoman" as a tribute to the man that save her from Harvey "Two Face" when she was a kid. Together, with the help of Lucius Fox's son, Luke and two troubled teenagers, Drake Todd and Stephanie Cain, they wage all out war on the two gangs.
