Cillian Murphy

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Cillian Murphy : biography

25 May 1976 –

In 2009, Cillian starred in The Water, directed by rock musician Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene and starring Murphy, rock musician Feist and actor David Fox, which was released online in April. The 15-minute Canadian short film is nearly silent until the Feist song of the same title plays close to the end.Medina, Jeremy. , Entertainment Weekly, 10 April 2009. Retrieved 11 April 2009. Murphy also starred in Perrier’s Bounty, a crime dramedy from the makers of Intermission, in which he portrayed a petty criminal on the run from a gangster played by Brendan Gleeson., The Hollywood Reporter, 23 October 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2008., Number9Films.co.uk. Retrieved 20 October 2008. Perrier’s Bounty premiered at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009,MacDonald, Gayle. , The Globe and Mail, 29 July 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2009. and had a limited release in 2010. In Peacock, a psychological thriller, Murphy starred as a man with a split personality who fools people into believing he is also his own wife, alongside Ellen Page,Siegel, Tatiana. In late 2011 Murphy expressed a keen interest in working with Christopher Nolan on a more frequent basis, reportedly sending various audition tapes, soundbites and resumés to the directors London Home., Variety, 14 February 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2008. Susan Sarandon and Bill Pullman. Peacock was released straight to DVD in early 2010. The several years’ delayed biopic Hippie Hippie Shake,Sherwin, Adam. The Times, 21 July 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2009. shot in 2007, stars Murphy (again alongside Sienna Miller) as Richard Neville, editor of the psychedelic radical underground magazine Oz, which, in 1971, was at the center of what was then the longest obscenity trial in British history.Fleming, Michael and Dawtrey, Adam. , Variety, 2 May 2007. Retrieved 2 May 2007. In a sign of trouble, the director and screenwriter walked off the production in mid-2009. In contrast to his delayed projects, Murphy was a part of the acclaimed ensemble cast of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Inception, with Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; the film was released in July 2010.Brevet, Brad. . RopeOfSilicon.com, 28 December 2009. Retrieved 2 January 2010. He also made an uncredited cameo appearance in Tron: Legacy, released in December 2010, as programmer Edward Dillinger Jr, son of original Tron antagonist Ed Dillinger (David Warner). In 2012, Murphy reprised his role as the Scarecrow for the third and final time in The Dark Knight Rises.

Murphy has a few new screen roles scheduled for production. He will star in the adaptation of the Irish metafictional novel At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’Brien, alongside Colin Farrell, Gabriel Byrne and Brendan Gleeson (who will also direct).Jaafar, Ali. , Variety, 2 September 2009. Retrieved 2 September 2009. He was also signed to star in Dalí & I: The Surreal Story,Kit, Borys. , The Hollywood Reporter, 13 September 2007. Retrieved 12 September 2007. though it was put on hold when a possible actor’s strike loomed.Mecke, Ralph. "No More Mr Nasty Guy", Harper’s Bazaar U.K., July 2008. Salvador Dalí will be portrayed by Al Pacino, an actor with whom Murphy has said he hoped to work, having credited a teenage viewing of Pacino in 1973’s Scarecrow (his favourite film), Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2005. Retrieved 13 September 2007. as awakening him to the potential power of film acting.

As for future roles, Murphy has long wanted to portray a cowboy in a Western, because as a child, he enjoyed watching John Wayne movies with his father. In 2005, he commented that he would like to play the jazz musician Chet Baker.O’Sullivan, Michael. , The Washington Post, 23 December 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2007. Murphy would like to work with director Michel Gondry someday;Franck-Dumas, Elisabeth. "Killer Talent", Vogue, December 2005. among the actors he hopes to work with are Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. He also admires Jeff Bridges, Sean Penn, Edward Norton and Joaquin Phoenix. Not wishing to be typecast or repeat himself, Murphy commented in 2006 that he did not want to play any more villains.Naughton, John. "Actor of the Year – Cillian Murphy", GQ UK, October 2006. Although he does not want to move to Los Angeles because of the cultural differences and distance from his family, Murphy has said he feels it is both wise and artistically worthwhile for him to make both big Hollywood pictures and smaller independent films.Gottlieb, Akiva. , Nerve, 16 March 2007. Retrieved 22 August 2007.