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Murphy in 2012, photo by PR Photos
Place of Birth: Douglas, County Cork, Ireland
Date of Birth: 25 May, 1976
Ethnicity: Irish
Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Oppenheimer (2023). His roles also include the films Sunburn , The Trench (1999), How Harry Became a Tree , On the Edge (2001), Disco Pigs , 28 Days Later , Intermission , Girl with a Pearl Earring , Cold Mountain , Batman Begins , and its sequels; Red Eye , Breakfast on Pluto , The Wind That Shakes the Barley , Sunshine (2007), Watching the Detectives , The Edge of Love , Perrier’s Bounty , Peacock (2010), Inception , Retreat (2011), In Time , Red Lights , Broken (2012), Aloft , Transcendence (2014), In the Heart of the Sea , Anthropoid , Free Fire , The Party , Dunkirk (2017), The Delinquent Season , Anna (2019), A Quiet Place Part II , Kensuke’s Kingdom , Small Things Like These , and Steve (2025); the shows The Way We Live Now , Peaky Blinders , and Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth ; and the music video for “Pana-vision.”
His father, Brendan Murphy, was a school inspector, and his mother, a teacher of French. He was raised in Ballintemple, Cork. Cillian is married to visual artist Yvonne McGuinness, with whom he has two children. Yvonne is the niece of politician John McGuinness.
Cillian’s paternal grandfather was Patrick Murphy (the son of John Murphy and Margaret Crowley). Patrick was born in Currow, Kerry. John was born in Ballylusky, Kerry, the son of Patrick Murphy and Ellen Fitzgerald. Margaret was born in Knockeenacurrig West, Kishkeam, County Cork, the daughter of Cornelius Crowley and Helen Daly.
Cillian’s paternal grandmother was Margaret/Madge Flynn (the daughter of Patrick Flynn and Catherine “Kate” Sweeney). Catherine was born in County Cork, the daughter of Margaret McSweeney.
Cillian’s maternal grandfather’s surname was O Mahony.
Source: Genealogy of Cillian Murphy (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com