Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (2005), the Irish war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), and the science fiction thriller Sunshine (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Murphy in 2024
Murphy (second from right) with Tim Smyth, Eoin O'Sullivan and Maria-Theresa Grandfield in 1992
Murphy at the 2005 New York Film Festival
Murphy (far left) with the cast of Inception in July 2010
Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright.
Walsh at the 2024 Berlinale
The Last Hotel by Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy, Edinburgh International Festival 2015