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
Dr. Alex Monroe
for Dr. Alex Monroe in Species: Genesis
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In the near future, humanity intercepts a mysterious signal from deep space — a message encoded with complex genetic data and blueprints for "improvement." A powerful biotech corporation, NexGen Industries, secretly creates a human-alien hybrid named Nyx, named after the ancient Greek goddess of night. But Nyx is not merely a biological experiment — she is something far more dangerous: a perfect infiltrator designed by an ancient intelligence beyond the stars. As Nyx escapes containment, evolving rapidly and using seduction to feed her transformation, a team of scientists and military operatives races to stop her before she completes her metamorphosis and signals the arrival of her creators. But the closer they get, the more uncertain they become — is Nyx in control of her actions, or is she just a weapon of something far more terrifying?
