Cillian Murphy on stage and screen

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Murphymade his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation.

Murphy in 2017

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1997	Quando	Pat	Short film	[1]
1998	The Tale of Sweety Barrett	Pat the Barman
1999	Eviction	Brendan McBride	Short film
	Sunburn	Davin McDerby
	At Death's Door	Grim Reaper, Jr.	Short film
	The Trench	Rag Rookwood
2000	Filleann an Feall	Ger	Short film
	A Man of Few Words	Best man
2001	On the Edge	Jonathan Breech
	How Harry Became a Tree	Gus
	Disco Pigs	Darren / Pig
	Watchmen	Phil	Short film
2002	28 Days Later	Jim
2003	Intermission	John
	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Pieter
	Cold Mountain	Bardolph
	Zonad	Guy Hendrickson	Short film
2005	Batman Begins	Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow
	Red Eye	Jackson Rippner
	Breakfast on Pluto	Patrick "Kitten" Braden
2006	The Silent City	Soldier	Short film
	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	Damien O'Donovan
2007	Sunshine	Robert Capa
	Watching the Detectives	Neil Lewis[2]
2008	The Dark Knight	Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow	Cameo
	The Edge of Love	William Killick
	Waveriders	Narrator	Voice; Documentary
2009	Perrier's Bounty	Michael McCrea
	The Water	Son	Short film
2010	Peacock	John Skillpa / Emma Skillpa
	Hippie Hippie Shake	Richard Neville	Unreleased
	Inception	Robert Fischer		[3]
	Tron: Legacy	Edward Dillinger, Jr.	Uncredited cameo	[4]
2011	Retreat	Martin
	In Time	Raymond Leon
2012	Red Lights	Tom Buckley
	Broken	Mike Kiernan
	The Dark Knight Rises	Dr. Jonathan Crane / The Scarecrow	Cameo
2013	Harriet and the Matches	Cat	Voice; Short film
2014	Aloft	Ivan
	Transcendence	Agent Donald Buchanan
	From the Mountain	Narrator	Voice; Short film
2015	In the Heart of the Sea	Matthew Joy
2016	Anthropoid	Jozef Gabčík
	Free Fire	Chris
2017	The Party	Tom
	Dunkirk	Shivering Soldier
2018	The Delinquent Season	Jim
	The Overcoat	Akaky	Voice; Short film
2019	Anna	Lenny Miller
2020	A Quiet Place Part II	Emmett
2021	All of This Unreal Time	Man	Short film
2023	Kensuke's Kingdom	Dad	Voice
	Oppenheimer	J. Robert Oppenheimer
2024	Small Things Like These	Bill Furlong	Also producer
2025	28 Years Later	—	Executive producer only
	Steve	Steve	Also producer	[5][6][7]
2026	28 Years Later: The Bone Temple	Jim	Post-production; also executive producer
TBA	Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man	Thomas Shelby	Post-production; also producer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Way We Live Now	Paul Montague	4 episodes
2013–2022	Peaky Blinders	Thomas Shelby	Main role; also executive producer
2015	Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth	Narrator	Voice; Documentary series

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Notes
2009	"The Water"	Feist
2011	"Winter Beats"	I Break Horses
2013	"Hold Me Forever"	Money	Director only
2015	"The Clock"	Paul Hartnoll
2016	"Stages"	The Frank and Walters	Voice only
2017	"The Ways"	Allred and Broderick
	"The Meetings of the Waters"	Fionn Regan
2022	"Pana-vision"	The Smile

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2005	Batman Begins	Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow
2023	Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom	Thomas Shelby

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Venue(s)
1996–1998	Disco Pigs	Darren/"Pig"	World tour[8]
1998	Much Ado About Nothing	Claudio	Kilkenny Castle[9]
1999	The Country Boy	Curly	Town Hall Theatre[9]
1999	Juno and the Paycock	Johnny Boyle	Gaiety Theatre
2002	The Shape of Things	Adam	Gate Theatre[10]
2003	The Seagull	Konstantine	Edinburgh International Festival[11]
2004	The Playboy of the Western World	Christy Mahon	Town Hall Theater[12]
2006	Love Song	Beane	Ambassadors Theatre[13]
2010	From Galway to Broadway and back again.	Christy Mahon	Town Hall Theatre[14]
2011–2012	Misterman	Thomas Magill	Galway Arts Festival Royal National Theatre St. Ann's Warehouse
2014	Ballyturk	No. 1	Galway Arts Festival Olympia Theatre Cork Opera House Royal National Theatre
2018–2019	Grief is the Thing with Feathers	Crow, Dad	Black Box Theatre O’Reilly Theatre[15] Barbican Centre St. Ann's Warehouse

See also

• List of awards and nominations received by Cillian Murphy