07 March 2024 , 19:01
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Cillian Murphy might be a current fan favourite star, but his son is also pursuing greatness.
The Oppenheimer star’s 16-year-old son, Aran, is joining the Hollywood world, it seems. He's is being tapped for the top and has signed to a major Hollywood law firm, who at on behalf of some of the world’s biggest stars. A source told The Mirror: “Aran is only young but already has a stellar team behind him. The future looks very bright indeed.”
The youngster is being advised by Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern who have struck deals for stars including Ryan Gosling, Will Smith and Angelina Jolie. He is also being represented by top acting agency Lisa Richards who look after a slew of stars.
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Cillian played J. Robert Oppenheimer in the biopic (Golden Globes 2024 via Getty Ima)Their combined weight have already negotiated a role in Klara and the Sun, director Taika Waititi’s adaptation of the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Other stars attached to the film include Hollywood starlets Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams.
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Before that he enjoyed a brief role in the acclaimed film LOLA, and in a stage touring production of Hamnet, where he played the lead character.
Aran recently made a rare appearance at the Golden Globes, with his dad and mum Yvonne, who Cillian married in 2004. The couple are also parents to Malachy, 17. During his Best Actor acceptance speech at the Globes, Cillian dubbed himself 'the luckiest man' as he spoke directly to his wife and children. The star said: "To my family, I'm the luckiest man and I love you."
Both Aran and Malachy were born in London and stayed there until 2015, with their actor dad joking they moved because his sons were developing "very posh English accents".
"We were in London for 14 years, both our kids were born there. We only came back to Dublin in 2015," he said previously. "It's kind of an Irish story, you know, to move away, do your thing and then come home. That seems to be a common narrative for Irish people.
Aram signed to the same legal team as Will Smith (Getty Images for AFI)"We wanted the kids to be Irish, and they were sort of at that age where they were preteens and they had very posh English accents and I wasn’t appreciating that too much. Our parents are a certain age and it was just a nice time to come home.”
Cillian jetted off to Los Angeles on Tuesday as he hopes to become the first Irish actor to win an Oscar since Brenda Fricker in 1990. He is now the bookie’s favourite with his odds 1/18. Peaky Blinders star Cillian recently became the first Irish-born performer to win a Bafta for Best Actor.
He received his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance as the titular character in Christopher Nolan’s 2023 movie Oppenheimer. His nod for Best Actor is one of Oppenheimer's 13 nominations which also includes Best Picture.
Cillian is up against Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, Colman Domingo for Rustin, Jeffrey Wright for American Fiction, and Bradley Cooper for Maestro in the category.