Cillian Murphy

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One of the most acclaimed, versatile actors of his generation, Cillian Murphy has starred in major studio hits, award-winning independent films, a celebrated television series and on the stages of London, New York and around the globe. Murphy first garnered international attention for his performance as Jim, the reluctant survivor in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later.

In 2006, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as outcast Patrick "Kitten" Brady in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto. Murphy garnered consecutive British Independent Film Award nominations for Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Alex Garland’s Sunshine. In 2012, he received a third British Independent Film Award nomination for his role as a teacher in Rufus Norris’ Broken. 

In 2023, Universal Pictures released Christopher Nolan’s biopic/thriller Oppenheimer, for which Murphy was awarded Best Actor at the 96th Academy Awards for playing the titular character. For six seasons on television, Murphy starred as Thomas Shelby, the most ruthless brother in a family of Birmingham gangsters in the BAFTA Award-winning series “Peaky Blinders”, created by Steven Knight for BBC One/Netflix.