History Creator / CillianMurphy

Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976 in Douglas, UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}) is an Irish actor.

He's known mostly for three things. First, his chameleon-like ability to adapt to a wide variety of roles and inhabit them. Second, his amazingly blue eyes, and third, being extremely pretty. He started his career in entertainment as a rock musician. Since ''Film/BatmanBegins'', he is a regular collaborator of Creator/ChristopherNolan, with their latest flick, ''Film/{{Oppenheimer}}'' granting him an Oscar for his role as the titular character.

** Matt Damon said it was really hard doing scene work with him for Oppenheimer because "sometimes you find yourself just swimming in his eyes".

* DawsonCasting: Odd example. ''Film/InTime'' is a society where no one ages past twenty-five. Cillian was in his mid-30s.

He's known mostly for three things. First, his chameleon-like ability to adapt to a wide variety of roles and inhabit them. Second, his amazingly blue eyes, and third, being extremely pretty. He started his career in entertainment as a rock musician. Since ''Film/BatmanBegins'', he is a regular collaborator of Creator/ChristopherNolan.

He began his acting career in 1996, working on several stage productions, and started appearing in films in the early 2000s. His breakthrough is widely considered to be 2002's ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', where he played the main character, the apocalypse survivor Jim.

* FakeAmerican: In quite a few of his roles, a.o. in ''Batman Begins'', ''Red Eye'', ''Sunshine'', ''Inception'' [[note]]-- The character was probably a dual Australian and American citizen, but he definitely spoke with an American accent --[[/note]] and ''Red Lights''. He does the accent very well, considering how notoriously hard the Irish Accent is to shed. He was even skilled enough to fool casting directors who were shocked to find out afterwards that he wasn't really American.

* CastTheRunnerUp: He auditioned for Batman in ''Batman Begins'' but lost to Creator/ChrstianBale. Nolan thought he wasn't right physically, but was so impressed by the audition that he asked him to play the Scarecrow.

* ''Film/ColdMountain'': Barrdolph
* ''Film/TheWayWeLiveNow'': Paul Montague

* ''Film/WatchingTheDetectives'': Neil

* ''Film/BatmanBegins'' (With cameo appearances in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy and]] ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''): Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

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* HollywoodHypeMachine: An example that went out of his way not to live too much up to it. In the mid-2000s, thanks to his roles in ''Batman Begins'', ''Red Eye'' and ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (which got him a Golden Globe nomination), he was touted as a "big star in the making". But between his discomfort with the Hollywood system and celebrity culture, as well as his annoyance with [[TypeCasting being approached solely for playing villainous roles]], he's preferred to stay out of the spotlight and take up roles in smaller-scale productions.

** He's also worked with Danny Boyle on ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'' and ''{{Film/Sunshine}}''.

Cillian is a rather private fellow, and he doesn't normally discuss his personal life in interviews.

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* ''The Way We Live Now'': Paul Montague

He's known mostly for three things. First, his chameleon-like ability to adapt to a wide variety of roles and seem to inhabit them. Second, his amazingly blue eyes, and third, being extremely pretty. He started his career in entertainment as a rock musician. Since ''Film/BatmanBegins'', he is a regular collaborator of Creator/ChristopherNolan.

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Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor known mostly for three things. First, his chameleon-like ability to adapt to a wide variety of roles and seem to inhabit them. Second, his amazingly blue eyes, and third, being extremely pretty. He was born on May 25, 1976 in Douglas, Ireland, and started his career in entertainment as a rock musician. Cillian is a rather private fellow, and he doesn't normally discuss his personal life in interviews.

A sampling of the works he has been in:

* ''Oppenheimer'': J. UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer
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** He's worked with Creator/ChristopherNolan in ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' (on all three movies), ''{{Film/Inception}}'' and ''{{Film/Dunkirk}}''. Nolan would eventually name him as the lead on ''Oppenheimer''.

* TypeCasting:

* FakeAmerican: In quite a few of his roles, a.o. in ''Batman Begins'', ''Red Eye'', ''Sunshine'', ''Inception'' [[note]]-- The character was probably a dual Australian and American citizen, but he definitely spoke with an American accent --[[/note]] and ''Red Lights''. He does the accent very well, considering how notoriously hard the Irish Accent is to shed.

[[Film/BatmanBegins "Would you like to see my]] [[DescribeTopicHere TV Tropes Page?"]]

* FakeAmerican: In quite a few of his roles, a.o. in Batman Begins, Red Eye, Sunshine, Inception [[note]]-- The character was probably a dual Australian and American citizen, but he definitely spoke with an American accent --[[/note]] and Red Lights. He does the accent very well, especially considering how notoriously hard the Irish Accent is to shed.