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Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976 - 32) is an Irish 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, 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 UK film and stage productions throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, first coming to international attention in 2003 as the hero in the post-apocalyptic film 28 Days Later. Murphy's best-k Nown roles are as villains in two 2005 blockbusters: the Scarecrow in the superhero film Batman Begins, and Jackson Rippner in the thriller Red Eye. Next came two contrasting, widely acclaimed starring roles: his Golden Globe Award-nominated performance as transgender outcast "Kitten" in 2005's Breakfast On Pluto and a turn as a 1920s Irish revolutionary in 2006 Palme d'Or winner The Wind That Shakes The Barley. In 2008, Murphy stars in the romantic drama The Edge of Love and makes a cameo as Scarecrow in the Batman sequel, The Dark Knight.
A resident of London since 2001, Murphy often works in or near London and has no desire to move to Hollywood. 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.
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Miller and Murphy sign up for Hippie Hippie Shake -
3 May 2007
Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller have signed up to star in a new film set in 1960s London, entitled Hippie Hippie Shake.-Based on a memoir, the movie uses the backdrop of a magazine lawsuit to take the characters on a journey through the swinging decade.-Hippie Hippie S
Cillian Murphy - what members say
review by from Poole, Dorset
Excellent! 7 April 2006
review by from Derby
Watchable, but nothing we haven't seen before... 6 August 2005
review by from Northern Ireland
Excellent 27 April 2004
Cillian Murphy - filmography
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In Time - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde
Director: Andrew Niccol
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When scientists unlock the secret to immortality, time becomes the new currency and one desperate man comes under attack from a mysterious group known only as the 'Time Keepers'. In the not-too-distant future, scientists have discovered a way to turn off the aging gene. Fearing overpopulation, ..read more »
 
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Now
(2011)
Starring: Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Alex Pettyfer
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency.
You stop ageing at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich "earn" decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while ..read more »
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In Time
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried, Olivia Wilde
Director: Andrew Niccol
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In the future people stop ageing at 25 and must work to buy themselves more time, but when a young man finds himself with more time than he can imagine he must run from the corrupt police force to save his life.
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Dali & I - The Surreal Story
(2011)
Starring: Al Pacino, Cillian Murphy
Director: Andrew Niccol
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From the 1960s to the 1980s, after most of his great work is behind him, Dali becomes more flamboyant and forms a mentor-protege relationship with Stan Lauryssens, a young art dealer.
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Retreat - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Thandie Newton
Director: Carl Tibbetts
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Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
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Retreat
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell, Thandie Newton
Director: Carl Tibbetts
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Kate and Martin escape from personal tragedy to an Island Retreat. Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man is washed ashore, with news of airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.
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Inception
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing ..read more »
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Inception - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, THE DARK KNIGHT) writes and directs this psychological sci-fi action film about a thief who possesses the power to enter into the dreams of others. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) doesn't steal things, he steals ideas. By projecting himself deep into the ..read more »
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Perrier's Bounty
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
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When Michael's (Cillian Murphy) debt to Dublin kingpin Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is called in and one of Perrier's goons accidentally ends up dead, Michael escapes to the mountains with his father Jim (Jim Broadbent) and best friend, Brenda. Flat broke, on the run and with only 24 hours to ..read more »
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Perrier's Bounty - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Jim Broadbent, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
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When Michael's (Cillian Murphy) debt to Dublin kingpin Darren Perrier (Brendan Gleeson) is called in and one of Perrier's goons accidentally ends up dead, Michael escapes to the mountains with his father Jim (Jim Broadbent) and best friend, Brenda. Flat broke, on the run and with only 24 hours to ..read more »
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The Edge of Love - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy
Director: John Maybury
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Set against a backdrop of London during World War II, THE EDGE OF LOVE tells the story of a love triangle that forms between renowned poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his young, sultry wife, Cat ( Sienna Miller) and old flame Keira Knightley.
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The Edge of Love
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy
Director: John Maybury
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Set against a backdrop of London during World War II, THE EDGE OF LOVE tells the story of a love triangle that forms between renowned poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys), his young, sultry wife, Cat ( Sienna Miller) and old flame Keira Knightley.
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Sunshine - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans
Director: Danny Boyle
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Set in the not too distant future, SUNSHINE follows eight astronauts on a mission to save the dying Sun by delivering their payload of a nuclear bomb into the star's core. In the year 2057, the Sun no longer produces the amount of energy needed to sustain the human race. The international community ..read more »
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Watching the Detectives
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu
Director: Paul Soter
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Neil (Cillian Murphy) works in a vintage video store and wishes his life could be as exciting as the movies he watches night and day. Enter Violet (Lucy Liu), a real-life femme fatale who brings enough adventure into Neil's world to make him think he has suddenly stepped into one of his favorite ..read more »
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Sunshine
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans
Director: Danny Boyle
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It is the year 2057, the Sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. EarthÂ’s last hope lies with the Icarus II, a spacecraft with a crew of eight men and women led by Captain Kaneda. Their mission: to deliver a nuclear device designed to reignite our fading sun. Deep into their voyage, out of radio ..read more »
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Batman Begins - Blu-ray
(2005)
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Genius of mystery and intrigue Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, FOLLOWING, INSOMNIA) helms this prequel to the Batman films based on the DC Comics series, explaining how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) the billionaire prince of Gotham whose parents were killed in an alleyway mugging transformed into the ..read more »
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Red Eye
(2005)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
Director: Wes Craven
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A hitman terrorises Lisa, a passenger on board a flight to Miami. His business is killing and his latest contract involves a wealthy businessman. He needs Lisa's help to fulfil the contract.
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Batman Begins
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Years ago, a young boy watched a street thug murder his parents. His life went cold. He left the city for the Far East, where he trained. He grew strong. But so did the darkness. And now the man is returning to Gotham City. The black, boiling drive for vengeance will cause Bruce Wayne to create a ..read more »
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Batman Begins - HD
(2005)
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Years ago, a young boy watched a street thug murder his parents. His life went cold. He left the city for the Far East, where he trained. He grew strong. But so did the darkness. And now the man is returning to Gotham City. The black, boiling drive for vengeance will cause Bruce Wayne to create a ..read more »
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Breakfast On Pluto
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Stephen Rea
Director: Neil Jordan
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Reuniting with writer Patrick McCabe, who co-scripted his acclaimed 1997 film THE BUTCHER BOY, Neil Jordan delivers another entertaining spectacle of a motion picture. Set in the United Kingdom during the tumultuous 1960s and 70s, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tells the story of Patrick Kitten Braden (an ..read more »
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Intermission
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy
Director: John Crowley
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In this comedy drama starring Cillian Murphy (28 DAYS LATER) and Colin Farrell (PHONE BOOTH) a series of coincidences and haphazard relationships unite a small group of people living in Dublin. The result is an alternately depressing and humorous sideways glance at the way that people make their ..read more »
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Girl With A Pearl Earring
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson
Director: Peter Webber
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Set in 17th-century Holland, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING follows the life of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman who must work as a maid to help her family make ends meet. Seeking employment at the home of renowned painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth), Griet finds most of the household, ..read more »
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28 Days Later
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley
Director: Danny Boyle
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After breaking into a primate research facility, a group of animal rights activists discover caged chimps chained up before banks of screens displaying horrifying, violent images. Ignoring the warnings of the terrified researcher who maintains that the chimps are infected, they begin to free the ..read more »
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28 Days Later - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Megan Burns, Noah Huntley
Director: Danny Boyle
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TRAINSPOTTING director Danny Boyle returns to edgy form and reinvents the science-fiction/horror genre with this apocalyptic tale of viral infection and Darwinian survival. A fatal virus is unleashed on the British public following the liberation of infected chimps from a research laboratory by ..read more »
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On The Edge
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tricia Vessey, Stephen Rea
Director: John Carney
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When 19-year-old rebel Jonathan Breech (Cillian Murphy)--suffering from depression after the death of his father--attempts suicide by driving a stolen car off a cliff, he is given the choice of going to prison or being committed to a psychiatric institution. Jonathan chooses the hospital, where he ..read more »
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The Way We Live Now
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza
Director: David Yates
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The Way We Live Now is peopled with a range of characters that only Trollope could create - the towering figure of Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), the Great Financier, a young aristocrat so dissolute he would sell his own mother to pay his gambling debts and whose simultaneous pursuit of two very ..read more »
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Disco Pigs
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Brian F. O'Byrne
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
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Pig and Runt were born moments apart, in the same hospital, and, except for blood, are twins. They grow up together and have equal appetites for recklessness and destruction. Just before their seventeenth birthdays Pig's behaviour threatens the private world they have spent a lifetime building. ..read more »
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How Harry Became a Tree
(2001)
Starring: Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
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Harry is devastated by the deaths of his wife and eldest son, and is subsequently haunted by strange dreams of being turned into a tree. Determined to direct his grief and frustration at someone in the village, Harry wages a bitter war against influential publican George. The two men's feud becomes ..read more »
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...I loved this movie! Excellent performance by Cillian Murphy - who, Richie Rich in Oxford take note, is actually Irish! ...
