Age: 50
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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
Mephisto
for Mephisto in Rebooted Avengers: A new Beginning
Suggested by Spidermaj
The world fractures when a catastrophic event shatters the fragile peace. Governments collapse. Cities burn. And the heroes who once saved humanity find themselves powerless, hunted, and fractured by betrayal. A new generation must rise—ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, forced to master abilities they never asked for. They carry the weight of impossible choices. Trust becomes a weapon. Every decision echoes with consequence. As ancient threats emerge from the shadows and former allies turn to enemies, these unlikely heroes discover that salvation demands sacrifice. The line between hero and villain blurs. The cost of victory may be everything they hold dear. This is not a story of triumph. This is a reckoning. This is what happens when the world demands heroes it doesn't deserve—and heroes must become something darker to survive.
