
Age: 50
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Cillian Murphy (born May 25, 1976) 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 notable 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 began collaborating with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing Dr. Jonathan Crane / Scarecrow in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017) and portraying the lead role of J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biographical epic Oppenheimer (2023). By the year 2023, Murphy has already worked with Nolan for around 20 years and six films. He also gained prominence for his role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC period drama series Peaky Blinders (2013–2022) and for starring in the horror sequel A Quiet Place Part II (2020). In 2011, Murphy won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for the one-man play Misterman. In 2020, The Irish Times named him one of the greatest Irish film actors.

Cillian Murphy

Herbert West
for Herbert West in Re-Animator (Remake)
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Dan Cain is a promising young student at Miskatonic University, a surgeon held in high regard by his peers and the other students. He's in a good relationship with the daughter of the dean, Megan Halsey, and all seems good. But, all that changes when he gets a mysterious new roommate by the name of Dr. Herbert West, a University of Zurich drop-out and a rather closed off and mysterious man who wants to 'further his studies'. Soon enough, Dan learns that his roommate's experiments involve bringing the dead back to life through a special 'Re-animator' serum, and only time will tell what will become of this.