
GQs Actor of the Year is a man I had the enormous pleasure of working with on Intermission, my friend, the supremely talented, Mr. Cillian Murphy. 12:51 Since appearing in the British sleeper hit 28 Days Later Cillian (pronounced KILL-ian) Murphy has taken the cinematic world by storm. His body of work includes award winners, crowd pleasers and box office hits. From thrillers to dramas, Cillian can easily switch between leading and supporting roles as well as play a wide range of characters. 13:13 In two 2005 blockbusters, Cillian played the villain wonderfully, as the Scarecrow in Batman Begins and as Jackson Rippner in the thriller Red Eye. In the Wez Craven hit film, Cillian played the leader in an assassination plot who terrorizes Rachel McAdams on an overnight flight. 13:33 2006 film The Wind That Shakes the Barley saw Cillian play a young Irish medical student who wins a place in London to train as a doctor, but who decides to stay in Ireland and fight for his country's independence. His performance was loved by critics and audiences alike and the film became the most successful Irish independent film at the Irish box office. It also took home the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. 14:04 He starred as a physicist-astronaut charged with reigniting the sun in the 2007 sci-fi movie Sunshine which re-teamed him with director Danny Boyle; and as a film geek in Paul Soter's romantic comedy, Watching the Detectives, opposite Lucy Liu. 14:22 In just a few short <b>...</b>
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