ACTOR

Cillian Murphy

1976 - Today

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Cillian Murphy ( KILL-ee-ən; born 25 May 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 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cillian Murphy has received more than 41,628,221 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Cillian Murphy is the 432nd most popular actor (up from 518th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Ireland (up from 31st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Irish Actor.

Cillian Murphy is most famous for his role as Dr. Jonathan Crane in the Batman films, as well as for his roles in Red Eye, 28 Days Later, and Inception.

Memorability Metrics

  • 42M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.15

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 72

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cillian Murphy ranks 432 out of 13,578. Before him are Jean Harlow, Charlie Sheen, Nebahat Çehre, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Brandon Lee, and Heath Ledger. After him are Bruno Cremer, Emmanuelle Riva, David McCallum, Mark Hamill, Françoise Dorléac, and Gian Maria Volonté.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Cillian Murphy ranks 6. Before him are Ronaldo, Reese Witherspoon, Alexei Navalny, Francesco Totti, and Andriy Shevchenko. After him are Ramzan Kadyrov, Clarence Seedorf, Chester Bennington, Michael Ballack, Judit Polgár, and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Cillian Murphy ranks 28 out of 549. Before him are Laurence Sterne (1713), Enya (1961), Lola Montez (1821), Michael Collins (1890), Ernest Shackleton (1874), and James Ussher (1581). After him are Causantín mac Cináeda (836), Iris Murdoch (1919), Bono (1960), Bertie Ahern (1951), Gabriel Byrne (1950), and Brendan Gleeson (1955).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Cillian Murphy ranks 5. Before him are Michael Gambon (1940), Pierce Brosnan (1953), Richard Harris (1930), and Lola Montez (1821). After him are Gabriel Byrne (1950), Brendan Gleeson (1955), Maureen O'Hara (1920), David Kelly (1929), Colin Farrell (1976), Brenda Fricker (1945), and Fionnula Flanagan (1941).

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Television and Movie Roles

Peaky Blinders
Thomas Shelby
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
8.537 / 10
Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Jul 19o 20238.094 / 10
28 Days Later
Jim
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
Oct 31o 20027.221 / 10