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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

Edward Curtis
for Edward Curtis in Probst Moonshine Gang
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A trio of friends meet years later on their way to Cedar City. One of the emigrants, Sam Probst, adapts very quickly in the new conditions of the free city. He and his friends Bill Hershey and Zach Blaisdell do odd jobs in underworld for Burt Cowington, and one delivery of bootleg liquor ends up in their hands with stolen money. They are joined by Harvey Taylor, who lost his general store, and John Wells, who is an explosives specialist and has worked with various gangs throughout the wild west. Together they rob JP Morgan's bank and it nets them 6 million. The whole group regularly visited Probst's mother, Eve. Probst will build his own liqueur empire with the money taken. However, with power and wealth, so does his danger. Burt Cowington and his ten men are after them, also the Pinkertons and lawmen. Eve is like a mom to them all, her death hit them hard. Bill falls in love with Sue's widowed mother, whom he supports financially. Zach subsidizes the local school and orphanage with the money. Harvey was giving money to a poor farming family, the Winstons. John gave money to doctor. Probst and his men try to help the citizens of Cedar City. The Probsts controlled the underworld, when someone wanted to complain to the sheriff, the Probsts were there first and the sheriff drank their whiskey. Spoiler: At the end of the film there is a passage where serious and sad music plays and during it the whole five are arrested in various places and shot, the era of the Probst boys ends.