<P> He played the character of Dr. Jonathan Crane (Scarecrow) in the highly successful films of The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005--2012). He starred in The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), Sunshine (2007), The Edge of Love (2008), Inception (2010) and Peacock (also 2010). </P> <P> In 2011, Murphy won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Actor and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for Misterman . He also became patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway . He is closely associated with the work of Professor Pat Dolan, Director UCFRC and UNESCO Chair in Children, Youth and Civic Engagement . He was also in the films In Time (2011), Retreat (2011) and Red Lights (2012). </P> <P> Since 2013, Murphy has portrayed Thomas Shelby, the lead of the BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders . He was in the films Transcendence (2014), In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Anthropoid (2016) and Dunkirk (2017). </P> <P> Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland and was raised in Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland . His father Brendan worked for the Irish Department of Education, and his mother was a French teacher . His grandfather, aunts and uncles were teachers, too . Musicianship also runs in the family, and Murphy started playing music and writing songs at the age of 10 . He has a younger brother, Páidi Murphy, and two younger sisters, Sile Murphy and Orla Murphy . </P>

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