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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.

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Charles Graham, VI / Obake
for Charles Graham, VI / Obake in Momakase
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Momakase is a 2026 American superhero film based on the recurring supervillain from Big Hero 6: The Series, produced by Walt Disney Studios, Legendary Pictures, Marvel Studios, and The Stone Quarry, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment in Legendary's Big Hero 6 Universe and the first film of Part One: Redemption and Atonement. Directed by Marc Webb and written by the directors of Big Hero 6, Don Hall and Chris Williams, the film stars Rina Sawayama as Akari Hayami, an ambitious and egotistical renowned Japanese master chef and professional thief with the alias "Momakase", who reluctantly returns to the slums of American-Japanese city San Fransokyo to confront her past after she becomes uneasy upon believing that her American father is still alive. Sawayama is supported by Jimmy Wong, Mei Nagano, Cillian Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Harry Lennix, and David Harbour. Momakase premiered in San Francisco on January 10th, 2026, and was released on February 5th; it grossed over $727 million worldwide at the global box-office, breaking-even of its $170 million budget. The film received praise for its direction, visuals, story, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, the performances of Sawayama and Harbour, and emotional weight. A sequel is in development.