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Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is a talented Irish actor who has appeared in stage and film productions. He is known for his performances in both independent and mainstream films. Although he began his career as a rock musician, he turned down a record deal to focus on his acting career.
He made his stage debut as Darren in Enda Walsh’s play Disco Pigs in 1996, and soon after, film offers began to pour in.
Despite a successful film career, Cillian Murphy has shown a strong aversion to leaving the stage. Over the past decade and a half, he has been involved in some of the most ambitious, celebrated, and important projects in film history.
He reunited with Danny Boyle in Sunshine, co-starred with Rachel McAdams in Red Eye, and worked with Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, and Dunkirk.
In 2011 he was appointed Patron of the UNESCO Centre for Child and Family Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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| Name: | Cillian Murphy |
| Date of Birth: | May 25, 1976 (48 years old) |
| place of birth: | Douglas, Ireland |
| Country of Citizenship: | Irish |
| high: | 1.72 m |
| parents: | Brendan Murphy |
| Brothers and sisters: | Páidi Murphy, Orla Murphy, Sile Murphy |
| Wife • Spouse: | Yvonne McGuinness ( m. 2004) |
| Girlfriend • Partner: | not applicable |
| Children: | Malachy Murphy, Alan Murphy |
| Profession: | Actor • Television personality |
| net worth: | $20 million |
Early life and education
Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, Ireland, and grew up in Ballintemple, a suburb of Cork. His father, Brendan Murphy, worked for the Irish Department of Education, and his mother taught French.
Not only were his parents educators, but his aunt, uncle and grandfather were also educators. Cillian Murphy has been playing music and writing songs since he was ten years old, and it continues in his family.
His siblings are Páidi Murphy, Orla Murphy and Sile Murphy.
Cillian Murphy attended Presentation Brothers College, a Catholic school, where he excelled academically despite frequently getting into trouble and being suspended, until his fourth year when he realized that misbehavior wasn’t worth it.
Cillian Murphy wasn’t into sports, which were a big part of life at PBC. He found the school not exactly supportive of creative endeavors. However, he got his first taste of acting there when he enrolled in a drama course run by Corcadorca Theatre Company director Pat Kiernan.
Cillian Murphy later described the feeling as “a great exhilaration” and a feeling of being “completely alive”, which he wanted to pursue. His English teacher, poet and novelist William Wall, encouraged him to pursue an acting career, but at the time, Cillian Murphy was preoccupied with his desire to become a rock star.
Profession
Cillian Murphy began to pursue a career in rock music in his late teens and early twenties, playing guitar in a number of bands with his brother Padraig. In 1969, the couple, who were passionate about the Beatles, named their most successful band the Sons of the Gringins after a song by another idol, Frank Zappa.
Cillian Murphy was a member of the band, which he said was “good at writing weird songs and long guitar solos”. His parents were against it because his brother was still in high school. In addition, the contract paid little and the record company would obtain the copyright to Cillian Murphy’s works.
In 1996, Cillian Murphy began studying law at University College Cork (UCC), but he failed his first year exams because he “didn’t want to study law,” as he describes it. Not only was he fully focused on his band, but he claims that when he arrived at UCC, he knew right away that law was not a good fit for his artistic mindset.
Furthermore, acting caught his attention after seeing Corcadorca’s stage production of A Clockwork Orange, directed by Kiernan.
Cillian Murphy’s first major role was in an amateur production of Observing the Sons of Ulster Marching to the Somme by the UCC Drama Society, although his main motivation was to party and meet women rather than to start an acting career (Cillian Murphy said). Despite this, he began to give up his job as a rock musician, saying afterwards: “I thought acting was there.”
Personal life
Cillian Murphy married his long-term live-in girlfriend Yvonne McGuinness, an artist he met in 1996 while attending a gig in a rock band in mid-2004. Their two sons, Malachy Murphy and Alan Murphy, were born in 2005 and 2007 respectively, and they live together in North West London.
Cillian Murphy is notoriously reluctant to discuss his personal life. He often gives interviews to talk about his work, but he avoids appearing on TV talk shows, where actors are required to reveal details about their personal lives.
He travels without an entourage and often attends premieres alone because he has neither a stylist nor a personal publicist.
Shy and modest, Cillian Murphy claims he has no interest in celebrity circles, calling the red carpet “a task… and not one I want to overcome”. He deliberately lives a lifestyle that does not attract tabloid attention: “I don’t cause any scandals, I don’t sleep around, I don’t go out and get drunk.”
net worth
Cillian Murphy’s net worth is estimated to be around $20 million, with movies being his main source of income.
