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Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Republic of Ireland film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles

Cillian Murphy biography

Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is an Republic of Ireland film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles

and distinctive blue eyes.

A native of Cork (city), Murphy began his performing career as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he made his professional acting debut in the play Disco Pigs in 1996. He went on to star in Irish and United Kingdom film and stage productions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, first coming to international attention in 2003 as the hero in the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction film 28 Days Later. Murphy's best-known roles are as villains in two 2005 blockbusters: the Scarecrow (comics) in the superhero film Batman Begins, and Jackson Rippner in the Thriller (genre) Red Eye (film). Next came two contrasting, widely acclaimed starring roles: his Golden Globe Award-nominated performance as transgender outcast "Kitten" in 2005's Breakfast on Pluto (film) and a turn as a 1920s Irish revolutionary in 2006 Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film). In 2008, Murphy stars in the romantic drama The Edge of Love and makes a Cameo appearance as Scarecrow in the Batman sequel, The Dark Knight (film).

A resident of London since 2001, Murphy often works in or near London and has no desire to move to Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Uncomfortable on the celebrity circuit, he customarily gives interviews about his work, but does not appear on television talk shows or discuss details of his private life with the press.

Early life and music

Born in Douglas, County Cork and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork (city), Cillian Murphy is the eldest of four children. His father, Brendan, works for the Department of Education and Science (Ireland) and his mother is a French language teacher. Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles are also teachers, as was his grandfather. Musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at age ten. His English teacher, the poet and novelist William Wall, encouraged him to pursue acting, The The Beatles-obsessed pair named their most successful band The Sons of Mr. Greengenes, after a Hot Rats by another idol, Frank Zappa. Murphy sang and played guitar in the band, which he has said "specialised in wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos." In 1996, He later observed, "I was unbelievably cocky and had nothing to lose, and it suited the part, I suppose." Originally slated to run three weeks in Cork, and Murphy left university and in the BBC television miniseries adaptation of The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial). In addition to Disco Pigs, he starred in many other plays, including William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things, and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; Murphy considers this stage work to have been his "training ground." During this period, he moved from Cork, relocating first to Dublin for a few years, then to London in 2001.

Murphy's onscreen performance in Disco Pigs caught the eye of director Danny Boyle when casting the lead for 28 Days Later. and a major success worldwide, putting Murphy before a mass audience for the first time. His performance as pandemic survivor Jim earned him nominations for Best Newcomer at the 2003 Empire Awards and Breakthrough Male Performance at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards. ComingSoon.net& 39;s review of the film said, "Cillian Murphy is a superb find... and he gives a breakout performance as a man torn apart by the new world into which he's awakened."

In late 2003, Murphy starred as a lovelorn, hapless supermarket stocker who plots a bank heist with Colin Farrell in Intermission (film), which became the highest-grossing Irish independent film in Irish box office history (until The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film) broke the record in 2006). Murphy also appeared in supporting roles in his first Hollywood films, Cold Mountain (film) and Girl with a Pearl Earring (film). For the latter film, he learned to chop meat in an abattoir to prepare for his role as a butcher, even though he is a vegetarian. In 2004, he toured Ireland in the titular role of The Playboy of the Western World, a Druid Theatre Company production under the direction of Garry Hynes, who had previously directed Murphy in Seán O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock and John Murphy (playwright)'s The Country Boy, also for Druid. In Wes Craven's Red Eye, Murphy starred as an operative in an assassination plot who terrorizes Rachel McAdams on an overnight flight. The New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis asserted that Murphy made "a picture-perfect villain" and that his "baby blues look cold enough to freeze water and his wolfish leer suggests its own terrors."

Murphy received several awards nominations for his 2005 bad guy turns, among them a nomination as Best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards 2006 for Batman Begins. Entertainment Weekly ranked him among its 2005 "Summer Most valuable player", a cover story list of ten entertainers with outstanding breakthrough performances. The New Yorkers David Denby wrote, "Cillian Murphy, who has angelic looks that can turn sinister, is one of the most elegantly seductive monsters in recent movies."

In late 2005 (early 2006 in Europe), Murphy starred as Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a transgender Irish orphan in search of his mother, in Neil Jordan's dramedy Breakfast on Pluto (film), based on the novel of the same title by Patrick McCabe. Murphy had auditioned for the role in 2001, and though Jordan liked him for the part, The Crying Game director was hesitant to revisit transgender and Provisional Irish Republican Army who dressed him and took him clubbing with other transvestites. Taking notice of the group's quick wit, Murphy attributed it to their constantly having to respond to insults from prejudiced people around them. While even lukewarm reviews of Breakfast on Pluto still tended to praise Murphy's performance highly, a few critics dissented: The Village Voice, which panned the film, found him "unconvincing" and overly cute.

Murphy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Breakfast on Pluto and won the IFTA Award Best Actor Award. Premiere (magazine) cited his performance as Kitten in their "The 24 Finest Performances of 2005" feature. A late 2005 Back Stage feature labeled Murphy "a chameleonic performer, a character actor trapped in a leading man's bone structure." and became the most successful Irish independent film at the Irish box office. Scotland on Sunday commented, "Cillian Murphy ... exudes a doe-eyed sensitivity that is central to our emotional involvement in the character's development. He is not a macho figure itching for a fight, but a man of peace, reluctantly drawn to the use of force. When he makes a commitment to Irish independence, it is unyielding and entirely believable." GQ (magazine) presented Murphy with their 2006 Actor of the Year award for his work in The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Recent roles and the future

Murphy returned to the stage from November 2006 to February 2007 in the lead role of John Kolvenbach's play Love Song, opposite Neve Campbell, in London's West End theatre. In April 2007 (July in North America), he starred onscreen as a physicist-astronaut charged with reigniting the sun in the sci-fi movie Sunshine (2007 film), which re-teamed him with director Danny Boyle. and was said be coming out on Valentine's Day 2008, but it never appeared in theaters, as the film ended up going straight to DVD. the film comes out in the UK in June. He also makes a brief reappearance as the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight (film), the sequel to Batman Begins. In 2009 comes the biopic Hippie Hippie Shake (film) (again alongside Sienna Miller), in which Murphy stars as Richard Neville (writer), He will also star in Peacock, a psychological thriller about a man with a split personality who fools people into believing he is also his own wife; Ellen Page co-stars as a woman from his past.

Murphy has two new screen roles scheduled for production. He is slated to shoot another biopic, Dali & I: The Surreal Story (though it is on hold due to a possible actor's strike),) as awakening him to the potential power of film acting. which shoots in late summer 2008.

As for future roles, Murphy has long wanted to portray a cowboy in a Western (genre), because as a child, he enjoyed watching John Wayne movies with his father. Murphy would like to work with director Michel Gondry someday; among the actors he hopes to work with are Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Not wishing to be typecast or repeat himself, Murphy says he does not want to play any more villains. Although he does not want to move to Los Angeles because of the cultural differences

Personal life

In mid-2004, Murphy married his long-time live-in girlfriend, Yvonne McGuinness, The couple live in northwest London with their two young sons, born in 2005 and 2007. Murphy is known for being reluctant to speak about his personal life. He frequently gives interviews about his work but does not do TV chat show appearances where actors customarily share information about their private lives. and Liam Neeson, looking up to the latter like a "surrogate movie dad." But primarily, Murphy's close friends are those he made before becoming a star.

Music is still an important part of Murphy's life. In 2004, he said, "The only extravagant thing about my lifestyle is my stereo system, buying music and going to gigs."

Though raised Roman Catholic Church before turning agnosticism in his teens, Murphy ultimately became an atheism after researching his role as a nuclear physicist/astronaut in the science fiction film Sunshine (2007 film). He is a longtime vegetarian, not due to any moral objection to the killing of animals, but because of qualms about unhealthy agribusiness practices. Son-in-law to John J. McGuinness, a Teachta Dála in the Oireachtas, Murphy participated in the 2007 Rock the Vote Ireland campaign targeting young voters for the general election.

Stage and screen credits

Feature films

Television

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Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTA)

- Nominated: Best Actor in a Feature Film (2003, January's biennial ceremony), Disco Pigs
- Nominated: Best Actor in a Film, and Best Actor/Public Vote (2003, November's first annual ceremony), 28 Days Later
- Nominated: Best Irish Actor in a Feature Film (2005), Red Eye (film)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actor in a Feature Film (2005), Batman Begins
- Won: Best Actor Lead Film (2007), Breakfast on Pluto (also nominated for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (film) in the same category)

Other awards

- Nominated: Empire Movie Awards Best Newcomer (2003), 28 Days Later
- Nominated: Satellite Awards, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical (2005), Breakfast on Pluto
- Nominated: British Independent Film Awards, Best Actor (2006), The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- Nominated: European Film Awards, European Actor of the Year (2006), The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Breakfast on Pluto
- Won: European Film Festival Palic, Best Actor (2006), Breakfast on Pluto
- Nominated: MTV Movie Awards, Best Villain (2006), Batman Begins
- Won: GQ Men of the Year Awards, Actor of the Year (2006)