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BIOGRAPHY

CILLIAN MURPHY

Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor. He was born in Cork on the 25th May 1976. He didn't want to become and actor but a musician, and actually, he had a band together with his brother when he was about 18 years old. 

He made his professional debut in 1996 with a role in a play called "Disco Pigs", and in 2001 he reprised it in the film adaptation, He became worldwide famous thanks to his roles in "28 days later"(2002), The batman trilogy (205 to 2012) where he played the Scarecrow, Inception (2010), or Dunkirk (2017). 

Many people know him by his role in the BBC period drama series "Peaky Blinders" (2012-2022) where he plays Thomas Shelby, a dark and enigmatic character, a dangerous man from Birmingham from the beginning of the twentieth century. He is currently recording a film which will put an end to the series.

Cillian Murphy has many nominations and awards for his amazing roles. Last year, in 2023, he amazed the world with his role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physician who basically invented the nuclear bomb, changing the course of history. He won the Oscar, the Golden Globe , and many other awards for this role.

He collaborates with Non Gubernamental Organizations such as UNESCO, supporting any activism helping children, youth and civic engagement. 

The actor is married and has two sons, and he kind of hates the stardom and celebrity life. In fact, he dislikes interviews and junkets. He was living in London for more than 10 years, but he and his wife decided to move back to Ireland because their sons were already speaking in a very posh English accent.  He doesn't have any social media, and he feels old to use any app and so on.

He loves Ireland, and feels really proud of being Irish, which he repeated every time he won an award this year.

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EMAIL 

Dear Niall:

How's things?, are you still living in London?

I'm still working at Mies de Vega school. I love working there because I have great friends among the teachers, and my students are really cool and lovely! We're actually doing a project on music, and the boys and girls in year 6 are writing their own lyrics to song, isn't it awesome?

When are you coming back to Cantabria? I think I'll be back in London in February, and I'm also going back home to Ireland for the Easter holidays, will you be around?

I hope we get to meet again soon.

Miss you lots.

Warmest.

Inma

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