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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

Brainiac
for Brainiac in Man Of Tomorrow (2021)
Suggested by fredericarrowsmith

Set sometime after the events of Zack Snyder's Justice League, Clark Kent (played by Henry Cavill) is trying to re-establish himself and pick back up from where he left off though knowing the world has undeniably changed since he was last around while also coming to grips with soon becoming a father. But things are about to become much complicated for him as a mysterious figure suddenly arrives in the form of a young female Kryptonian who Clark discovers is, in fact, his cousin named Kara Zor-El (played by Sasha Calle). As Clark attempts to become a mentor figure for Kara and struggles to teach her anything he knows, she warns him that she is desperately trying to escape the wrathful control of a powerful and sinister extra-terrestrial android and a sworn enemy of the Kryptonian species who calls himself Brainiac (played by Damion Poitier), and since her arrival, he will be coming for Kara and will take Earth along with.