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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.
Nightingale is a 2026 American urban fantasy thriller film written and directed by Robert Eggers, who co-wrote the story with Zack Snyder and Guillermo del Toro. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the first installment in the Nightingale franchise. Cara Delevingne stars as Lillith Brynhild, a vampire who is the last of the Nightingales, a group of warriors who served the malevolent Daedric god Nocturnal but who then eventually converted to Talos worship for a better cause, as she protects her wife and daughters from the evil resurrected vampire lord Dracula. Bella Thorne, Ansel Elgort, Lily-Rose Depp, Christian Bale, Everleigh McDonell, Lexi Rabe, Graham McTavish, Harry Lennix, Cillian Murphy, Chris Pratt, and Mads Mikkelsen star in supporting roles. Nightingale opened in theaters on February 18th, 2026; it received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised its cast, direction, visuals, score and action, but its graphic violence was found too crazy and gruesome for some, and the stunts were considered "insane and mind-blowing." The film was a box-office success, grossing $721 million against a budget of $251 million, print and advertisement costs of $448 million, and a break-even point of $120 million. A sequel is in development with many cast members set to return, particularly Delevingne and Thorne.
