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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
Dr. Sam Loomis
for Dr. Sam Loomis in Halloween: Rise of the Boogeyman
Suggested by optimistic_writer
On Halloween 1984, a woman named Jennifer warns a babysitter and her boyfriend about an impending doom, but they do not heed to her warnings. Eventually, this leads to a young boy in a clown costume breaking in and killing the young girl they were babysitting, Sally. Debra is traumatized from the event, and Jennifer gets put into Dr. Sam Loomis' care. 31 years later, Jennifer eventually lights herself on fire in the days before Halloween leaving Loomis heartbroken that he couldn't help her. Eventually, he visits the boy from that night, now a man, dubbed "The Boogeyman" by the other inmates. The Boogeyman escapes and it is directly tied to Loomis accidentally dropping his lighter into his cell. Now Dr. Loomis must track The Boogeyman with the help of local law enforcement, and something from beyond...
