FrameThrower · Actors · Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
19 films · 1,334 frames · top-billed in 10 · 2002–2023
Born 25 May 1976 · Douglas, Cork, Ireland
Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor.
He made his professional debut in Enda Walsh's 1996 play Disco Pigs, a role he later reprised in the 2001 screen adaptation. His early notable film credits include the horror film 28 Days Later (2002), the dark comedy Intermission (2003), the thriller Red Eye (2005), the Irish war drama The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), and the science fiction thriller Sunshine (2007). He played a transgender Irish woman in the comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (2005), which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Murphy began collaborating with filmmaker Christopher Nolan in 2005, playing Dr.…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 19 films · 1,334 frames · top-billed in 10 · 2002–2023
- Academy Award for Best Actor2024
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama2023
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role2024
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role2024
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show2012
How their films are shot
Measured across 1,334 frames from the 19 films we hold. This is the look of the work Cillian takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 19 films we hold, 45% of their frames are day, 43% low key — the look of the work Cillian takes.
Time of day
Lighting
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Oppenheimer
2023 · J. Robert Oppenheimer
Free Fire
2016 · Chris
In The Heart of the Sea
2014 · Matthew Joy
Broken
2012 · Mike Kiernan
In Time
2011 · Raymond Leon
Peacock
2010 · John Skillpa / Emma Skillpa
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006 · Damien
Breakfast On Pluto
2005 · Patrick 'Kitten' Braden
28 Days Later
2002 · Jim
Sunshine
· Capa
A Quiet Place Part II
2020 · Emmett
Anna
2019 · Lenny Miller
Dunkirk
2017 · Shivering Soldier
The Party
2017 · Tom
Transcendence
2014 · Agent Donald Buchanan
Inception
2010 · Robert Fischer, Jr.
The Dark Knight
2008 · Scarecrow
Batman Begins
2005 · Dr. Jonathan Crane
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003 · Pieter
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 1,334 frames from Cillian Murphy's 19 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.