
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.

The Kingdom of Myrtana, reunited by King Rhobar II: During the long years of his reign he was able to defeat all foes of the realm. All, except one: The war against the Orcs took its toll and the prisoners of the realm were to pay the price: The King needed swords for his army and every men guilty of a crime, no matter how insignificant was forced to work in the ore mines of Khorinis. To make it impossible to escape the King sent out the best magicians of the Kingdom to create a magic barrier around the entire valley, I was one of them. Something disturbed the delicate structure of magic: We were trapped inside our own barrier. One second of negleciance was enough for the prisoners. Khorinis was now under the control of the convicts. The King had no choice. He had to negotiate, he needed the ore. Month after month the King supplied everything the prisoners needed, month after month they brought the ore to the edge of the barrier in exchange until the present day: Another convict was brought to the Cliff...

