Irish actor Cillian Murphy has been in a ton of films but he is most known for his role as Thomas Shelby in Peaky Blinders. The popular BBC series is gearing uo for its sixth and final season, and it continues to follow the exploits of the Shelby family gang in 1920s Birmingham. Murphy is the star of the show and has won a National Television Award for Outstanding Drama Performance for his work on the program.
His acting career spans over two decades with a handful of notable roles. Murphy started off as a rock musician, but he turned down a record deal to pursue a career in film. His fans are surely thankful for that, because no one can pull off Thomas Shelby the way that Cillian Murphy does. Murphy has nearly sixty acting credits under his belt and counting. The 45-year-old has a whopping net worth of $20 million. This is where 25 years of dedication to the field of acting gets you.
6 Cillian Murphy: Early Life
Cillian Murphy was born on May 25th, 1976, in Douglas, Ireland. Cillian is the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, an employee of the Irish Department of Education, and his wife who taught French. The Murphy family is Roman Catholic so Cillian attended the Catholic school Presentation Brothers College. He initially started his career as the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the rock band, "The Sons of Mr. Green Genes." His band was offered a record deal in the late 1990s but Murphy turned it down and began acting on stage and in independent films.
5 Cillian Murphy's Early Acting Career
In 1996, Murphy debuted as a professional actor in the play Disco Pigs. Three years later he starred alongside Paloma Baeza and Sinead Keenan in the feature film Sunburn. Murphy appeared in an abundant amount of independent films until he was cast the lead role in 28 Days Later. This 2002 sci-fi horror directed by Danny Boyle was made with an $8 million budget and ended up earning $84.7 million at the box office.
4 Cillian Murphy: List Of Films
In 2005, Cillian Murphy played a transgender woman looking for love in Breakfast on Pluto which landed him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Although he didn't win the award, he was awarded an Irish Film and Television Award for Best Actor. In 2007, Murphy starred alongside Charlie's Angels star, Lucy Liu in Watching the Detectives. The following year, Murphy appeared in the romance film The Edge of Love with Keira Knightley, and in 2012 he starred alongside Robert De Niro in Red Lights. Cillian Murphy also appeared in the films Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, and Dunkirk.
3 Cillian Murphy On Television: 'Peaky Blinders'
In 2013, Cillian Murphy transitioned from film to television on the drama series, Peaky Blinders. This year Murphy will retire his iconic role as the leader of the Birmingham criminal gang and patriarch of the Shelby Family. “It’ll be very strange,” Murphy says about retiring Shelby. “I think probably when I stop, like a few months in, I’ll have to process the fact that I may not play him again. I’ll have to deal with that. But right now, I’m just still in it.” By order of the Peaky Blinders, season six is set to appear in early 2022!
2 Cillian Murphy Joins A Quiet Place II
Cillian Murphy went to see A Quiet Place with his two sons and was immediately captivated by John Krasinki's first film. The American post-apocalyptic horror film starring Krasinki's wife Emily Blunt scored a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. “I was so impressed by what John [Krasinski] had achieved that I penned an email to him,” Murphy remembers. “And I actually wrote the whole thing. And then at the end, I just got too embarrassed, and I didn’t send it.” A year later, Krasinski reached out to Murphy, asking him to be a part of the sequel. He sent Murphy the script and there the character Emmett was born.
1 What's Next For Cillian Murphy?
Christopher Nolan has announced that he will be directing a film starring Cillian Murphy for 2023. The World War II epic is titled, Oppenheimer and the rest of the cast includes Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Robert Downey Jr., and Matt Damon.
According to the Hindustan Times, "The film will focus on the life of the physicist whose role in running the Los Alamos Laboratory and involvement in the Manhattan Project has led him to be dubbed as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Universal Pictures is producing the project, which marks Murphy and Nolan's fourth collaboration after Batman Begins, Inception, and Dunkirk."
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