Known for his role as Jim in 28 Days Later (2002), the Scarecrow in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–12), Jackson Rippner in Red Eye (2005), Robert Capa in Sunshine (2007), Robert Fischer in Inception (2010) and Thomas Shelby in the BBC series Peaky Blinders
Musician - He began his performing career as a rock musician
Acting debut - in the play Disco Pigs in 1996
Besides stage work, he started appearing in independent films, coming to international attention in 2002 as the hero of Danny Boyle's film 28 Days Later
In 2005, he appeared in a series of successful films: 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)
Awarded - He received a Golden Globe award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role as a transgender woman in Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
He had the lead role in The Wind That Shakes the Barley, a film that got him a Palme d'Or prize
Other movies - Sunshine (2007), and Inception (2010)
Family - He lives with his wife and two children in Monkstown, Dublin
In 2011 he became patron of the UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Galway
I'd probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
I've a very, very close-knit group of friends from Ireland. They and my family are the most important things to me.
Too many filmmakers today are trying to put their work into a box. I can't stand that! Making movies is a lot of work. Let's take some risks.
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.
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