Cillian Murphy Biography: Wife, Age, Net Worth, Height, Awards, Pronunciation, Wikipedia, Batman, Interview, Movies, TV Shows

Biography

Cillian Murphy (born 25 May 1976) is a talented Irish actor who has been on stage and in films. He became well-known due to his outstanding performances in independent and mainstream films. Despite starting his career as a rock musician, he turned down a record deal to focus on acting.

In 1996, he made his stage debut as Darren in Enda Walsh‘s play ‘Disco Pigs.’ Soon after, the film offers began to flood in.

While he has a successful film career, Cillian Murphy has exhibited a solid aversion to leaving the stage. He has been a part of some of the most ambitious, famous, and significant projects in cinema history during the previous fifteen years.

He collaborated with Danny Boyle again in ‘Sunshine,’ starred opposite Rachel McAdams in ‘Red Eye,’ and collaborated with Christopher Nolan on The Dark Knight Trilogy, ‘Inception,’ and ‘Dunkirk.’

In 2011, he was named patron of the National University of Ireland, Galway’s UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre.

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Wiki Facts & About Data
Full Name:	Cillian Murphy
Born:	25 May 1976 (age 47 years old)
Place of Birth:	Douglas, Ireland
Nationality:	Irish
Height:	1.72 m
Parents:	Brendan Murphy
Siblings:	Páidi Murphy, Orla Murphy, Sile Murphy
Wife • Spouse:	Yvonne McGuinness (m. 2004)
Girlfriend • Partner:	N/A
Children:	Malachy Murphy, Aran Murphy
Occupation:	Actor • TV Personality
Net Worth:	US$20 million

Early Life & Education

Cillian Murphy is the eldest of four children, born in Douglas and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork. Brendan Murphy, his father, works for the Irish Department of Education, while his mother teaches French.

Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles and his grandfather are all educators. Cillian Murphy began playing music and creating songs when he was ten years old, and it runs in the family.

His siblings are Páidi Murphy, Orla Murphy, and Sile Murphy.

Cillian Murphy went to Presentation Brothers College, a Catholic institution where he excelled academically despite getting into trouble frequently and being suspended until he decided that misbehaving was not worth the bother in his fourth year.

Cillian Murphy, who was not fond of sports, which were a big part of life at PBC, discovered that the school didn’t fully support creative endeavours. Still, he had his first experience of acting there when he took part in a drama module led by Pat Kiernan, the director of the Corcadorca Theatre Company. 

Cillian Murphy later described the sensation as a “big high” and a “totally alive” sense that he wanted to pursue. His English teacher, poet, and novelist William Wall encouraged him to pursue acting, but at the time, Cillian Murphy‘s aspirations of becoming a rock star were all he could think about.

Career

Cillian Murphy pursued a career as a rock musician in his late teens and early twenties, playing guitar in many bands with his brother Pádraig. After a 1969 song by another idol, Frank Zappa, the Beatles-obsessed couple named their most successful band The Sons of Mr Greengenes.

Cillian Murphy was a member of the band, which “specialized in weird songs and long guitar solos,” according to him. His parents were against it because his brother was still in high school. Furthermore, the deal was low-paying and would have given the record company the rights to Cillian Murphy‘s compositions.

Cillian Murphy began studying law at University College Cork (UCC) in 1996, but he failed his first-year exams because he had “no desires to do it,” as he described it. He was not just preoccupied with his band, but he also claimed that he understood right away when he arrived at UCC that law was not the right fit for his artistic mentality.

Furthermore, acting had piqued his attention after seeing Corcadorca‘s stage performance of A Clockwork Orange, directed by Kiernan.

Cillian Murphy‘s first significant role was in the UCC Drama Society’s amateur production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, although his primary motivation was to party and meet women, not start an acting career according to Cillian Murphy. Despite this, he began to move away from working as a rock musician, saying afterwards, “I think there’s such a thing as a performance.”

Personal Life

Cillian Murphy married his long-term live-in girlfriend, Yvonne McGuinness, an artist he met in 1996 during one of his rock band’s gigs in mid-2004. Born in 2005 and 2007, their two young sons, Malachy Murphy and Aran Murphy live with them in northwest London. 

Cillian Murphy is well-known for his aversion to discussing his personal life. He routinely conducts interviews about his work, but he avoids appearing on TV talk shows, where performers are expected to disclose details about their personal lives.

He travels without an entourage and frequently attends premieres alone, as he has neither a stylist nor a personal publicist.

Cillian Murphy, who is shy and modest, claims to have no interest in the celebrity world, calling the red carpet “a task… and not one I want to overcome.” He deliberately leads a lifestyle that will not attract the attention of the tabloids: “I haven’t caused any scandal, I don’t sleep around, and I don’t go out and get drunk.” 

Net Worth

Cillian Murphy has an estimated net worth of roughly US$20 million, with movies being his primary source of income.