Cillian murphy

Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland, on May 25, 1976. He was the eldest of four siblings in a Catholic family, where there was a great tradition of the educational profession. His parents, without going any further, were teachers. Although this dark-haired man with characteristic blue eyes and marked pouts began university studies in Cork, that was not going for him and he left after a year to dedicate himself to music, playing the guitar in various rock bands; In the musical adventure he was accompanied by his brother Páidi. This was compatible with his integration into an apprenticeship program at the Corcadora theater company, also from Cork, which later led to his stage debut in Enda Walsh’s “Disco Pigs” in 1996. He will be forever grateful to writer and poet William Mall for encouraging his professional dedication to acting. The music would be in the background.

Over the next seven years, his work consists of classical and contemporary stage plays, including Chekhov and Shakespeare, shorter ones, independent films and a foray into a BBC TV mini-series, The Way We Live Now . Nor is he missing the appointment of the film adaptation of the play with which he had started his acting career, Disco Pigs . The first movie of his that sounds like is Danny Boyle ‘s zombie sci-fi 28 Days Later (2002); The British filmmaker must have been satisfied, since he would count on him for the inferior Sunshine (2007). It is clear that British filmmakers have their radar detector of good actors that promise turned on asAnthony Minghella signs him for the Hollywood Cold Mountain (2003), a production with such popular actors as Nicole Kidman , Jude Law and the Oscar-winning Renée Zellweger . The same year he is in a prestigious production like the biopic of the painter Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring , where there were also promising Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson .

2004 is an important year for Cillian, who marries Yvonne McGuinness, with whom he has had two children. Jealous of his private life, his family is out of the spotlight, and the actor himself, once he has achieved popularity, will expose himself to the media just enough to promote his work.

The streak of confident British filmmakers going on and on. Christopher Nolan counts on him for the resurrection of the Batman brand in Batman Begins (2005) and, with less presence, The Dark Knight (2008), with the character of the Scarecrow. He will also sign him as a villain of Origin (2010). Ken Loach gives him a role in the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), an overrated film that addresses the conflict in the United Kingdom and Ireland with virulence and anger. His compatriot Neil Jordan cuts him off in Breakfast on Pluto (2005), a twisted story of a not-so-successful transvestite.

Cillian’s haunting and enigmatic appearance seems to have made him a favorite actor for filmmakers attached to horror, fantastic and thriller. This seems to be deduced from the fact that, apart from Boyle and Nolan, directors as diverse as Wes Craven ( Night Flight , 2005, a mysterious story aboard an airplane), Andrew Niccol ( In Time , 2011, a futuristic parable about the time that slips through our hands) and Rodrigo Cortés ( Red Lights , 2011, about paranormal phenomena). He is taking leading roles in titles like Peacock (2010), along with Ellen Page and Susan Sarandon, and has the film on the counterculture Hippie Hippie Shake under way .