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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-known 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
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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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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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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 - BLU-RAY Version
(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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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. Earth’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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The Wind That Shakes The Barley
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham
Director: Ken Loach
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A gripping drama from Ken Loach, The Wind That Shakes The Barley is the story of the Irish Civil War in the 1920's - a fight for freedom which saw the Irish Republican Army up against the occupying British forces.
Workers from field and country unite to form volunteer guerrilla armies to face ..read more »
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Red Eye
on DVD
(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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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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Batman Begins
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy
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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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 - BLU-RAY Version
(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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28 Days Later
on DVD
(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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The Edge Of Love
to Watch Now
(2008)
Starring: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy
Director: John Maybury
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Run time: 106 minutes
The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of these two women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were childhood sweethearts in their homeland Wales. Ten years later the two meet again in war-time London. She's working as a singer whilst he's churning out propaganda ..read more »
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slightly let down 24 November 2005
...the off license probably wins that award in this picture. It’s a shame because Cillian Murphy is a fine actor & perhaps watching another relatively small film, Intermission,...
Excellent 27 April 2004
