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
Klaatu
for Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still
Suggested by mr_blue_sky
During the 13-Day Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962, when it seems nuclear war with the Soviet Union is imminent, a flying saucer lands in the middle of Washington DC. Out from the spaceship steps an alien humanoid, Klaatu of the planet Ummo, as well as a giant robot called "Gort." Klaatu offers the human race an ultimatum; either stop the violence or be destroyed. With the entire world in panic because of the Crisis, the United States government and a team of top scientists scramble to decide if they should listen to Klaatu or risk annihilation. The entire world waits, the fate of humanity in their hands.
