Cillian Murphy

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Cillian Murphy, Berlinale 2017

Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976 in Douglas , County Cork ) is an Irish actor .

Life

Cillian Murphy grew up in Ballintemple, a district of Cork , as the oldest of four children. His father worked for the Department of Education and Skills , a government agency, and his mother was a French teacher. In his childhood Murphy was very active musically and wrote his first own songs. Raised Catholic by birth as a native Irishman , he attended a denominational school in his youth, where he often got into trouble because of his behavior. Not particularly interested in sports, his English teacher at the time, Irish poet and author William Wall , recommended that he give acting a try. Murphy took note of this but decided to pursue his original dream of becoming a rock musician.

In his early twenties, Murphy played guitar and singer with his younger brother in their own band called The Sons of Mr. Greengenes . However, a contract with a London music label planned for 1996 failed due to a lack of money and the compulsory schooling of his brother, who was still underage at the time. So the band was not successful. So Murphy began studying law at University College Cork that same year . After Murphy saw a stage production of A Clockwork Orange there, his interest in acting was revived. He then joined the local theater company and appeared in a number of different stage performances. As a result, he broke off his already poorly going studies and decided to become a full-time actor.

Career

Murphy joined an acting group around the playwright Enda Walsh , with whom he toured Europe , Canada and Australia for two years and staged the disco production Disco Pigs . As a film actor, he was able to book supporting roles in smaller film productions and short films, before he was allowed to play the lead role of Jonathan Breech in the Irish drama On the Edge in 2001 . That same year, Murphy moved to Dublin and later London to pursue his career.

The international breakthrough as an actor succeeded Murphy in 2002 with the British end time - horror film 28 Days Later , in which he played the male lead. A year later he could be seen in On the Road to Cold Mountain alongside Renée Zellweger and Jude Law . In 2004 Murphy returned to the theater stage again, where he appeared in the play The Hero of the Western World in the lead role of Christy Mahon.

In 2005, Murphy auditioned for the role of Batman in the film Batman Begins . Although the part ultimately went to Christian Bale , director Christopher Nolan was so impressed with Murphy's acting that he gave the actor with the piercing blue eyes the role of Batman's opponent Scarecrow . Since then he has increasingly been seen in leading roles. In the same year he starred in the thriller Red Eye alongside Rachel McAdams and in the drama Breakfast on Pluto alongside Liam Neeson .

In 2006 he starred in Ken Loach's Golden Palm Prize winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley , which deals with Irish history. In 2008 he took over the role of Dr. Jonathan Crane , in Nolan's film The Dark Knight , which only made a brief appearance. Also in 2008, he appeared in The Edge of Love as William Killick, alongside Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller . In 2009, he took on the role of a young man persecuted by debt collectors in the Irish-British co-production Kopfgeld - Perrier's Bounty .

Cillian Murphy (2010)

2010 Murphy was in Nolan's highly acclaimed science fiction - Thriller Inception alongside Leonardo DiCaprio to see. In 2011 he played the leading role of Martin in the end-time horror film Retreat and in the same year took on the role of the film villain in the science fiction film In Time . In 2012 he reappeared as Scarecrow for The Dark Knight Rises . This film is Murphy's fourth collaboration with director Nolan. Also in 2012, he starred in the film drama Red Lights alongside Sigourney Weaver .

Murphy was in the science fiction film Transcendence alongside Johnny Depp to see. It was directed by Wally Pfister , with whom Murphy had previously worked several times in Christopher Nolan's films.

Since 2013 Murphy has starred in the British television series Peaky Blinders - Gangs of Birmingham . In 2016 he played a Slovak resistance fighter in the film Anthropoid . In 2017 Murphy played a shocked soldier in the film Dunkirk directed by Christopher Nolan . After his transport ship was destroyed by a submarine, he is the only one to save himself on the drifting wreck, and finally he is rescued by the crew of a small sailing ship.

Private

Murphy has been married to artist Yvonne McGuinness since August 2004 and has two sons who were born in December 2005 and July 2007. The family currently lives in Dublin, having previously lived in London for 14 years. The former Catholic is now an atheist and in 2007 also supported a political campaign by the non-profit organization Rock the Vote in his home country Ireland. Murphy's long-time friends include fellow Irish actors Colin Farrell and Liam Neeson .

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SURNAME Murphy, Cillian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish actor and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Douglas , County Cork, Ireland