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
Detective Mason Pike
for Detective Mason Pike in The Ice Cream Man
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Every town has an ice cream truck. Every neighborhood has a familiar song drifting through the summer air. And every person carries fears they hope nobody will ever see. The Ice Cream Man is a prestige horror anthology series based on the acclaimed Image Comics series. Set across countless towns, cities, and forgotten roads, each episode follows ordinary people confronting their deepest fears, regrets, addictions, obsessions, and tragedies when their lives intersect with a mysterious ice cream vendor named Rick. Friendly. Polite. Always smiling. Rick seems harmless at first glance. Yet wherever his truck appears, reality begins to bend. Time loops endlessly. Memories come alive. Nightmares escape into the real world. Entire lives unravel from a single choice. Some believe Rick is a demon. Others think he's a god. Some whisper that he's death itself. The truth may be far stranger. As disconnected stories slowly reveal hidden connections, a larger mythology emerges—one that stretches beyond humanity and into a cosmic struggle involving ancient beings who feed upon hope, despair, memory, and imagination. Blending psychological horror, supernatural mystery, dark fantasy, and heartbreaking human drama, The Ice Cream Man explores what scares us most: loneliness, grief, addiction, mortality, and the terrifying possibility that our lives may be shaped by forces beyond our understanding.
