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Cillian Murphy
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From Wikipedia
Cillian Murphy (Irish: Cillian Ó Murchú, May 25, 1976) is an Irish actor known for his distinctively blue eyes[3] and intense performances. Cillian is an Irish name which is anglicised Killian; both spellings are pronounced "Killyann" (though the former spelling is often mispronounced "Sillian"). He is best known for his roles as Jim in 28 Days Later, The Scarecrow in Batman Begins and Jackson Rippner in Red Eye. His most lauded performance was as Patrick "Kitten" Braden in Breakfast on Pluto, for which he received his first IFTA Award and first Golden Globe Award nomination. (more)

Cillian Murphy Filmography

Quando (1997)
The Tale of Sweety Barrett (1998)
Eviction (1999)
At Death's Door (1999)
Sunburn (1999)
Filleann an Feall (also known as The Treachery Returns) (2000)
A Man of Few Words (2000)
On the Edge (2001)
How Harry Became a Tree (2001)
Disco Pigs (2001)
The Way We Live Now (2001)
(mini series)
Watchmen (2001)
28 Days Later (2002)
Zonad (2003)
Intermission (2003)
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Cold Mountain (2003)
Batman Begins (2005)
Red Eye (2005)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
The Silent City (2006)
Sunshine (2007)
Watching the Detectives (2007)


Cillian Murphy Interviews

Danny's New Golden Boy

Cillian Murphy
SFX Magazine

Breakfast on Pluto - Cillian
Murphy interview

Getting Personal
Irish actor Cillian Murphy's latest film brings him home

The reluctant warrior
Cillian Murphy on `Barley´and searching for the right words

Irish actor Cillian Murphy comes into
the blue

Fast Chat Cillian Murphy


Videos on Cillian Murphy

Sunshine - Official Uk Teaser Trailer

CILLIAN MURPHY interview: "BREAKFAST ON PLUTO"

28 Days Later Interview - Cillian Murphy

28 Days Later Movie Trailer

Red Eye interview with Cillian murphy

Cillian Murphy - Red Eye - Lies That I Believe – Music Video



“I was agnostic before this film. Now I'm very much an atheist. Not
just because I spent time with these guys–they just confirmed what I'd
always suspected. For me, the film ultimately is a battle between science
and religion, or science instead of fundamentalism.”


Articles and Links on Cillian Murphy

Danny's New Golden Boy
by Rick Fulton
“Sunshine is a film that highlights the fragility of the planet and how briefly we are on it, but how much we contribute to its future.
"It got me thinking about life and religion, science vs religion and all that. I was verging on being an agnostic and this film confirmed any of the atheistic beliefs I had.”

Sunshine - The Official Movie Site

The Cillian Site

The Knights of Cillian County

A Mighty Foreign Wind
by Pam Grady

Meet the action hero who looks on the verge of tears

Cillian Murphy on IMDb

Starship Trouper
by Alistair Harkness
Read any interview with Cillian Murphy and the chances are it will rhapsodise about his "piercing blue eyes", a feature that has seen the 30-year-old Irish actor likened to fellow countryman Peter O'Toole. It's an understandable impulse. On screen Murphy can be an electric presence; the kind of actor who can come alive in a heartbeat and completely alter an audience's perception of him. He could be about to romance the girl next door; he could be about to rip her head off.

Murphy's Lore
by John Walsh
As part of his research, he spent time with Brian Cox, a leading astrophysicist. Surely you don't need a knowledge of physics to play a physicist? "For us lay people, it's hard to grasp these ideas, that everything emerged from the Big Bang and nobody knows why, or what 95 per cent of the universe is made of. I was never going to understand that. When I talked to Brian, I wanted to get a brief glimpse inside his head and imagine what it means to be dealing with all these massive profound thoughts all the time, and how it affects your interaction with other people." He went to Geneva to visit Cox's workplace. "They're building this particle accelerator, which is 25 km long and they're going to smash protons together to create the conditions of the Big Bang. But all I could do with these guys was hang out with them and ask really idiotic questions over and over..."

Nerve Film Lounge Q&A: Cillian Murphy

What's on Cillian's Playlist?



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