Cillian Murphy Filmography

Born:: May 25, 1976 in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A soft-spoken, fair-skinned actor with startling blue eyes, a penchant for playing volatile characters, and a reluctance to forsake his critically lauded stage career for a life in film, American audiences may best know Irish actor Cillian Murphy as the bike courier making his way through infected...Read More

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Telepathy

Actors: Miranda Richardson, Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Natalie Press

1/1/09
Peacock

Actors: Ellen Page, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: Juno's Ellen Page stars with Cillian Murphy in this Mandate Pictures' thriller from first-time writer/director Michael Lander and writer Ryan Roy. Page stars as a woman who stumbles upon a married couple's secret -- that they are one and the same person (played by Murphy). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

1/1/09
The Dark Knight

Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played Read More

7/18/08
Watching the Detectives

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Lucy Liu, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Panes, Callie Thorne

Synopsis: A film freak has his life turned upside down when he starts dating a real-life femme fatale in this comedy. Neil (Cillian Murphy) is a dyed-in-the-wool movie fan who runs a video store, "Gumshoe Video," specializing in classic film noir and offbeat cult items. Neil spends nearly every evening on Read More

1/1/08
Hippie Hippie Shake

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Sienna Miller, Max Minghella, Emma Booth

Synopsis: The landmark obscenity trial surrounding a satirical Australian magazine becomes a metaphor for a wild ride through swinging 1960s-era London in director Beeban Kidron's adaptation of Richard Neville's memoir Hippie Hippie Shake: The Dreams, the Trips, the Trials, the Love-ins, the Screw Ups: The Read More

1/1/08
Dali & I: The Surreal Story

Actors: Al Pacino, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: Al Pacino stars as the great Salvador Dali in Lord of War director Andrew Niccol's adaptation of Stan Lauryssens' autobiographical book with this feature set in the twilight of the famed surrealist's career and exploring his increasing obsession with the almighty dollar. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

1/1/08
The Edge of Love

Actors: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: The Jacket director John Maybury adapts playwright Sharman MacDonald's account of the true-life relationships shared between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas; his wife, Caitlin; his lifelong friend Vera Phillips; and her husband, William Killick, in this biographical drama centering on the curious incident Read More

1/1/08
Sunshine

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada

Synopsis: As the sun begins to dim along with mankind's hope for the future, it's up to a desperate crew of eight astronauts to reach the dying star and re-ignite the fire that will bring life back to planet Earth in a tense, psychological sci-fi thriller that re-teams 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle Read More

7/20/07
The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary Riordan

Synopsis: Two brothers are caught on differing sides of the battle for Irish freedom in this politically minded historical drama from veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach. It's 1920, and Damien O'Donovan (Cillian Murphy) has recently graduated from medical school. Damien plans to leave the small village in Read More

3/16/07
Breakfast on Pluto

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Eva Birthistle

Synopsis: An Irish boy becomes an emotional and sexual outcast as the 1960s fade into the 1970s in this period drama from director Neil Jordan. When he was just a baby in the early '60s, Patrick Braden (Conor McEvoy) was abandoned by his mother and left on the doorstep of a church overseen by Father Bernard Read More

11/18/05
Red Eye

Actors: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Terror rides the night skies in this thriller from horror auteur Wes Craven. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is a young woman with more than her share of anxieties about flying. However, when circumstances demand she go to Miami, she gathers her nerves and books a seat on a late-night flight. Read More

8/19/05
Batman Begins

Actors: Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The origins of the Caped Crusader of Gotham City are finally brought to the big screen in this new adaptation of the perennially popular comic-book series. The young Bruce Wayne (Gus Lewis) leads a privileged life as the son of wealthy, philanthropist parents, both of whom stress their commitment Read More

6/15/05
Intermission

Actors: Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Kelly MacDonald, Colm Meaney, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: In the suburbs of Dublin, more than a dozen strangers find their paths colliding in sometimes violent, sometimes absurd ways in Intermission, the first feature from director John Crowley. Setting the chain of events in motion is Lehiff (Colin Farrell), a small-time crook whose most recent petty Read More

3/19/04
Girl With a Pearl Earring

Actors: Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson, Judy Parfitt, Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: The subject of one of Johannes Vermeer's most enduring portraits becomes the focus of this biographical period piece from director Peter Webber. Girl With a Pearl Earring is told from the point of view of Griet (Scarlett Johansson), a teenaged girl who leaves her family's care in the country to Read More

12/12/03
28 Days Later

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston

Synopsis: Animal rights activists free a group of infected chimpanzees to horrifying results in this speculative sci-fi horror effort from Trainspotting director Danny Boyle. Waking from a coma in a deserted London hospital 28 days later, bicycle courier Jim (Cillian Murphy) takes to the deserted city Read More

11/1/02
On the Edge

Actors: Cillian Murphy

Synopsis: A teenager finds himself reaching out to others as he tries to heal his emotional wounds in this drama. Jonathan (Cillian Murphy) is a young man who is having a difficult time coming to terms with the recent death of his father; after falling into a deep depression, he attempts to commit suicide Read More

2001
Disco Pigs

Actors: Elaine Cassidy, Cillian Murphy, Geraldine O'Rawe, Eleanor Methven, Brian F. O'Byrne

Synopsis: A friendship between two young people grows into a dangerous obsession in this drama based on the acclaimed stage play by Enda Walsh. Darren (Cillian Murphy) and Sinead (Elaine Cassidy) were born moments apart in the same hospital in a small Irish community. Nicknamed "Pig" and "Runt," Darren and Read More

2001
The Way We Live Now

Actors: David Suchet, Matthew MacFadyen, Paloma Baeza, Cheryl Campbell, Shirley Henderson

Synopsis: The six-part British miniseries The Way We Live Now was adapted from the satirical 1875 novel by Anthony Trollope. The central character was Augustus Melmotte (David Suchet), a mysterious international financier of questionable parentage. Invading the uppermost circles of Victorian society Read More

2001
Bitter Harvest

Actors: Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Cillian Murphy, Kerry Condon, Pat Laffan

Synopsis: Veteran Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic leaves the battles in the Balkans behind for this drama set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies," Harry Maloney (Colm Meany) sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty -- the most powerful man in town, who not only owns the local Read More

2001
Sunburn

Actors: Cillian Murphy, Paloma Baeza, Barry Ward, Michael Liebman, Ingeborga Dapkunaite

Synopsis: A group of Irish college students are about to leave for the United States, where they've landed summer jobs in Long Island, when a slightly shady friend of one of the gang, Davin (Cillian Murphy), decides to tag along as a quick way out of a doomed romance. While the students all have jobs and Read More

1999