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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.
Mad Luigi: The Desert Warrior (or just simply Mad Luigi) is a 2024 American dystopian action film written and directed by George Miller. The film is based on the Nintendo character Luigi, it stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the title role, alongside Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy, Reese Witherspoon, Kevin Durand, Kristen Bell, and Benedict Cumberbatch. It is set in the year 2058, where the world is a desert wasteland, where many heroes go insane, but some heroes become warriors, and Mad Luigi is the most feared of them, and he faces Antasma. The film was released in theaters on April 19th, 2024; it initially received a polarized response but was a financial success, grossing $845 million worldwide. Critics reassessed the film as one of the greatest action films of the 2020s. A sequel is in development.
