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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

Michael Morbius
for Michael Morbius in The Spider-Man S1 E1
Suggested by jdeav

Peter Parker, a forensic crime scene assistant for The New York City Police Department, is bitten by a radioactive spider that is irradiated after a particle accelerator from OsCorp explodes. In a coma for nine months, Peter awakens in Oscorp Labs, having been placed in the care of its founder Norman Osborn and his assistants Dr. Curt Connors and Michael Morbius. Peter learns that he has gained the abilities of a spider, and that there were other "metahumans" created from the explosion. One of them, Pierre Fresson, is robbing banks with his ability to control wind. In order to stop Fresson, Peter is outfitted with a suit designed by Osborn. He tracks down Fresson and with Officer Jefferson Davis, who learns of Peter's abilities, Peter is able to stop Fresson, who is killed by Jefferson. With his new powers, Peter vows to exonerate his aunt May, who is incarcerated for murdering her husband, Ben, whom Peter witnessed, at a young age, being killed by another metahuman. He chooses the alias "Spider-Man" for his alter ego. Osborn, secretly revealed to be neither paraplegic nor needing glasses, reads a newspaper from 2024 stating the missing status of Spider-Man.