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Cillian Murphy (; born 25 May 1976) is an Irish actor of stage and screen. Since making his debut in his home country in the late 1990s, Murphy has also become a presence in British and American cinema—noted by critics for his performances in a wide range of roles. A native of Cork, Murphy began his performing career as a rock musician. After turning down a record deal, he made his professional acting debut in the play ''Disco Pigs'' in 1996. While continuing with stage work he also began appearing in independent films, first coming to international attention in 2002 as the hero of Danny Boyle's post-apocalyptic film ''28 Days Later''. Murphy's profile continued to grow in 2005 when he appeared in a series of successful films: firstly as the Scarecrow in Christopher Nolan's 2005 blockbuster ''Batman Begins''—a role he reprised in ''The Dark Knight'' (2008) and ''The Dark Knight Rises'' (2012)—and secondly in the action-thriller ''Red Eye'' (2005). For his performance as a transgender woman in ''Breakfast on Pluto'' (2005), Murphy received a Golden Globe award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. In 2006, Murphy played the lead role in Ken Loach's Palme d'Or-winning film ''The Wind That Shakes the Barley''. He re-teamed with Boyle for the science-fiction film ''Sunshine'' (2007), and with Nolan for the highly successful thriller ''Inception'' (2010). Since 2013, Murphy has played the lead in the BBC gangster series ''Peaky Blinders''. He has continued to work on stage, and won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for ''Misterman'' in 2011. Murphy lives with his wife and two children in London. ==Early life, education, and music== Murphy was born in Douglas and raised in Ballintemple, two suburbs of Cork. His father, Brendan, works for the Irish Department of Education, and his mother is a French teacher. Not only are his parents educators, but his aunts and uncles are also teachers, as was his grandfather. Musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at age ten.〔 Murphy was raised Roman Catholic and attended the Catholic school Presentation Brothers College, where he did well academically〔 but got into trouble often, sometimes getting suspended, until he decided in his fourth year that misbehaving was not worth the hassle. Not keen on sport, a major part of life at PBC, Murphy found that creative pursuits were not fully nurtured at the school.〔 Still, it was there that he got his first taste of performing, when he participated in a drama module presented by Pat Kiernan, the director of the Corcadorca Theatre Company. Murphy later described the experience as a "huge high" and a "fully alive" feeling that he set out to chase. His English teacher, the poet and novelist William Wall, encouraged him to pursue acting;〔 but, at this stage, to Murphy, performing meant dreams of becoming a rock star.〔 In his late teens and early twenties, Murphy worked toward a career as a rock musician, playing guitar in several bands alongside his brother Páidi.〔 The Beatles-obsessed pair named their most successful band "The Sons of Mr. Greengenes", after a 1969 song by another idol, Frank Zappa. Murphy sang and played guitar in the band, which he has said "specialised in wacky lyrics and endless guitar solos". In 1996,〔 The Sons of Mr. Greengenes were offered a five-album record deal by Acid Jazz Records,〔 but they did not sign the contract due to Murphy's brother still being in secondary school and the little money involved in ceding the rights to Murphy's compositions to the record label.〔 Murphy confessed that "I'm very glad in retrospect that we didn't sign because you kind of sign away your life to a label and the whole of your music". Also in 1996, Murphy began studying law at University College Cork (UCC), but he failed his first year exams because, as he put it, he had "no ambitions to do it".〔 Not only was he busy with his band,〔 but he has said that he knew within days after starting at UCC that law was not what he wanted to do. After seeing Corcadorca's stage production of ''A Clockwork Orange'', directed by Kiernan, acting had begun to pique his interest.〔 His first major role was in the UCC Drama Society's amateur production of ''Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme'', also starring Irish American comedian, Des Bishop. Murphy also played the lead in a UCC Drama production of ''Little Shop of Horrors'', which was performed in the Cork Opera House. According to Murphy, his primary motivation then was to party and meet women, not to begin an acting career.〔 Nonetheless, he began to transition away from working as a rock musician, about which he later remarked, "I think there's such a thing as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally came out through music, then segued into acting and came out through there. I always needed to get up and perform."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cillian Murphy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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