Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Actor (b. 1976)
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The ThumbScore for Cillian Murphy (71.4%) is the average audience approval rating across 30 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Cillian's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

30
Movies
71.4%
Avg ThumbScore
Thriller
Top Genre

Audiences rate Cillian Murphy’s films lower than 52% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

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Frequent Collaborators

Christopher Nolan (5)Ken Watanabe (2)Tom Hardy (2)Christian Bale (2)Michael Caine (2)

Cillian Murphy ( KILL-ee-ən; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor and film producer. His works encompass both stage and screen, and his accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. 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 his first Golden Globe Award nomination. Murphy began his collaboration with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight trilogy (2005–2012) as well as appearing in Inception (2010) and Dunkirk (2017). He gained greater 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). Murphy portrayed J.

Murphy pressured Pat Kiernan until he got an audition at Corcadorca Theatre Company, and in September 1996, he made his professional acting debut on the stage, playing the part of a volatile Cork teenager in Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs. Walsh recalled meeting and discovering Murphy: "There was something about him – he was incredibly enigmatic and he would walk into a room with real presence and you'd go, "My God". It had nothing to do with those bloody eyes that everyone's going on about all the time." Murphy observed, "I was unbelievably cocky and had nothing to lose, and it suited the part, I suppose". Originally intended to run for three weeks in Cork, Disco Pigs ended up touring throughout Europe, Canada and Australia for two years, and Murphy left both university and his band. Though he had intended to go back to playing music, he secured representation after his first agent caught a performance of Disco Pigs, and his acting career began to take off.

Murphy's most commercially successful films have been his many collaborations with Nolan, including Oppenheimer, Inception, Batman Begins, and Dunkirk. Following the success of Oppenheimer and the Barbenheimer phenomenon, Murphy was named in Variety's list of the most influential figures of 2023 in the entertainment and media industry. Murphy's works also include other critically acclaimed films, such as A Quiet Place II and The Wind that Shakes the Barley. He has received several accolades over the course of his career, including four Irish Film & Television Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award.

Born 1976-05-25 in Douglas, Cork, Ireland.

On ThumbScore, Cillian Murphy appears in 30 films with an average audience score of 71.4%, most frequently in the Thriller genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB

Every Cillian Murphy movie, ranked by audience score

The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight
2008
👍 92%
Inception
Inception
2010
👍 87%
28 Days Later
28 Days Later
2002
👍 85%
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
2023
👍 83%
Anthropoid
Anthropoid
2016
👍 83%
Batman Begins
Batman Begins
2005
👍 82%
Dunkirk
Dunkirk
2017
👍 82%
A Quiet Place Part II
A Quiet Place Part II
2021
👍 82%
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
👍 82%
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006
👍 82%
In Time
In Time
2011
👍 75%
Breakfast on Pluto
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
👍 75%
Red Lights
Red Lights
2012
👍 73%
The Party
The Party
2017
👍 72%
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
2026
👍 71%
In the Heart of the Sea
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
👍 70%
Broken
Broken
2012
👍 70%
Anna
Anna
2019
👍 68%
The Edge of Love
The Edge of Love
2008
👍 68%
Intermission
Intermission
2003
👍 67%
Watching the Detectives
Watching the Detectives
2007
👍 66%
Sunshine
Sunshine
2007
👍 65%
Retreat
Retreat
2011
👍 63%
Free Fire
Free Fire
2017
👍 62%
Peacock
Peacock
2010
👍 62%
Red Eye
Red Eye
2005
👍 61%
Transcendence
Transcendence
2014
👍 60%
The Trench
The Trench
1999
👍 60%
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These
2024
👍 48%
Steve
Steve
2025
👍 47%