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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
Tommy Shelby
for Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
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In post-war Birmingham, the Shelby family's criminal empire is disrupted by a mysterious stranger who appears immortal—ageless, with firsthand knowledge of events spanning decades. Tommy Shelby becomes obsessed with uncovering the man's true nature, even as the outsider manipulates events from the shadows and exposes secrets that threaten everything Tommy has built. The family splinters under the strain, with Ada doubting Tommy, Polly sensing supernatural forces, and Arthur growing increasingly unstable. The immortal man's real goal isn't power or wealth—he's pursuing an ancient debt tied to the Shelby bloodline. Tommy finds himself in an unprecedented fight against an opponent who has already outlived every strategy imaginable, forcing him to confront whether this being represents humanity's future or its doom.
