Cillian Murphy (Cillian Murphy): filmography and personal life of the actor

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Today we offer to learn more about the actor of Irish origin - Cillian Murphy. In his native UK, he became famous after the film "Disco Pigs". Viewers all over the world know him thanks to his roles in a series of films about Batman, where he played the villain Crane, as well as participation in the tapes "Inception", "Broken", "Red Lights" and others.

Biography of Cillian Murphy

The future Hollywood celebrity was born on May 25, 1976 in a suburb of the Irish city of Cork. Killian was the eldest of four children in the Murphy family. Both of his parents were engaged in teaching activities: his father worked in the Irish Department of Education, and his mother was a French teacher at school. It is interesting that many other relatives of Killian are also teachers: grandfather, uncles and aunts. From an early age, Murphy was passionate about music and secretly cherished the dream of someday becoming a real rock star.

First steps towards a career as an actor

During training inhigh school, Cillian Murphy, quite by chance, got into a class led by Pat Kiernan, art director of the Cork Theater Company. It was then that the young man realized that his vocation was an acting career. Not to waste time, 16-year-old Killian leaves school and begins to persistently attend auditions at the local Theater Company. One fine day, the young man's perseverance was rewarded, and he was invited to play the role of Pig in the then most popular play in Ireland called "Disco Pigs". The plot told about the fate of two wild teenagers obsessed with love. The performance was very successful and also won first prize at the Dublin Regional Festival. Since Killian played the main role in the production, his brilliant work was appreciated, and both theatrical and film figures in the UK paid close attention to the novice actor himself.

Cillian Murphy: filmography, film debut

For the first time the young actor appeared on the screens in 1998 in a cameo role. His debut took place in the film "The Story of Sweety Barrett." The next time, Killian was offered the lead role in the same 1998 project Sunburn. However, the film was not particularly successful at the box office, and then several more episodic appearances of the actor followed in such films as “In July 1916: The Battle of the Somme”, “On Death”, “Exile”, “Betrayal Returns”, “A Man of No Words” and How Harry Turned into a Tree.

In 2001, Murphy appeared on the screens in the lead role in the drama "On the Edge", dedicated to the currentat that time the problem of the rise in the number of teen suicides.

First success

In 2001, a film by Kristen Sheridan called "Disco Pigs" was released, which became an adaptation of the sensational performance of the same name. The main roles in this project were played by Elayne Cassidy and, in fact, Cillian Murphy. The picture was a great success in Europe, and especially in the UK. Local critics claimed that Cillian Murphy is an actor who will still make people talk about himself in the near future. As for Russia, here the film was received more than unfriendly. The acting of Murphy and his partners on the set also did not impress domestic film critics at all.

Continuing career

Cillian Murphy, whose filmography already consisted of a number of very successful films in Europe, remained virtually unknown on the other side of the Atlantic. That changed in 2003 with Danny Boyle's zombie thriller 28 Days Later. By the way, on the screen, Killian demonstrated not only a great acting game, but also his naked body in full growth. Be that as it may, Murphy has earned himself enough fame around the world.

Despite a successful debut in Hollywood, the subsequent work of the young actor went almost unnoticed by either critics or spectators. So, he took part in the filming of such films as "Gap", "Cold Mountain" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring".

Another success

In 2005 Killianauditioned for the lead role in Batman Begins, but it went to Christian Bale. Murphy was offered to play the villain Crane. This character was a great success for the actor, thanks to which, after the release of the picture, he acquired a huge number of new fans of his talent. In the same year, Killian got to play another villainous role in the Night Flight film. It's safe to say that Murphy's performance literally saved the film from failure, as his script was, to put it mildly, weak. 2005 proved to be a surprisingly fruitful year for Killian. So, in the same year, another film with his participation, Breakfast on Pluto, was released. Thanks to his role in this project, the actor was nominated for the prestigious Golden Globe Award.

Films with Cillian Murphy continued to regularly appear on the big screen. So, in 2006, the film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" directed by Ken Loach saw the light of day. In this project, the actor brilliantly played the role of a closed theoretical physicist who had to save our planet from complete freezing. This was followed by the work of Murphy in the films "Inferno" and "Seeing Detectives".

In 2008, another film about Batman called "The Dark Knight" was released, in which the actor again appeared in his usual role as the villain Crane. True, the appearance of the actor on the screen was episodic, but the audience was happy to see their idol.

Recent works

Cillian Murphy continues to act actively. Of his latest works, one can distinguishfilms such as Forbidden Love (2008), Peacock (2010), Inception (2010), Retreat (2011), Time (2011), Broken (2011), Red Lights "(2012), another part of the story about Batman - "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012) and "Peaky Blinders" (2013). In the current year, 2014, several films with the participation of the actor are also expected to be released: "Excellence", "Dali and I", "Clash of Personalities". In addition, Cillian is currently busy working on In the Heart of the Sea, which should hit the big screen in 2015.

Private life

Cillian Murphy really does not like to talk about his relationship and almost always ignores such questions from journalists. However, it is known that in 2004 he and his longtime girlfriend Yvonne McGuinness officially married. Before that, their romance lasted about 8 years. Today, Cillian Murphy and his wife are raising two sons: Malachi (born in 2005) and Carrick (born in 2007). The whole family permanently lives in London, in the Hampstead area.

Cillian Murphy: height, weight and interesting facts about the actor

• The hero of our today's story is a vegetarian.
• Killian knows Gaelic and also speaks excellent French, as his mother is a school teacher in this subject.
• The actor is not very attracted to team sports. However, he loves to run and this is how he keeps himself in excellent physical shape.
• Murphy's idol is Liam Neeson, whom he jokingly calls "his surrogate movie father."
• When Killian was a teenager, his main passion was music. At that time he played in several bands, the most serious of which can be called The Sons of Mr. Green Genes. Murphy played guitar, sang and wrote songs. In addition, he infected his younger brother Paidy with his enthusiasm, who later also became a member of the group.
• In 1996, one of the record companies even offered Killian and his team a contract. However, the parents did not allow their sons to sign it, as they feared the consequences: after all, their children had no experience in the "ruthless" music industry. As it turned out, in the end they were right, as the contract deprived the Murphy brothers of all rights to their songs.
• The actor is 174 centimeters tall and weighs 75 kilograms.