
Age: 50
male
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

Marc Marigold
for Marc Marigold in Swordsmoke XI
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Marc and Bo reach the burning apartment—gunshots ring out. They duck for cover, but sacks are yanked over their heads. Elsewhere, Ellie waits on the beach with Kitty and Norman. With the others missing, she’s hoping for a signal. Norman suggests an old Mercenary site nearby. Ellie tells him to shut it. Kitty tries to slip away. Ellie draws her gun. Norman grabs Kitty, turns a pistol on her. “Mercenary doesn’t care about me,” he says. “But Kitty? She’s leverage.” Ellie shrugs. “I don’t care about her.” She fires. Kitty drops, dead. Norman runs. But a bag slams over Ellie’s head. Norman sprints through the jungle—only to be tackled by agents. Caught. Everyone wakes in a Mercenary base—Marc, Bo, Ellie, Norman, Sasha, Jack, Grace, Brutas, Hyde. Surrounded. Agent Gunn steps forward, face scarred from chemicals, smirking. Suddenly, guards fall. Ice spreads across the floor. Bao appears—alive. A firefight erupts. The team pushes into a warehouse, but Hyde takes a bullet to the head. They try to help—but it’s too late. Guards corner them. Outside, Gunn approaches. “I’m letting you live,” he sneers. “Boss’s orders. But first…” He grabs Brutas. One shot. Brutas falls. Marc screams. Gunn leaves. The group—shattered—follows Ellie to her resistance base deep beneath the city. Marc stands tall. “We don’t break. We rise. Brutas and Hyde didn’t die in vain. Our Agency begins now.” He places a call. Contact name: Strider.