Cillian Murphy leads such a private personal life that you likely didn’t even know that he’s been married for nearly 20 years!
The 47-year-old actor has been married to longtime love Yvonne McGuinness since 2004 and they have never made an official appearance together in public.
We could only track down one photo set of the couple together and it’s from 2016 when they were seen outside of a New York City hotel. CLICK HERE FOR THE PHOTOS!
So, who is Yvonne? And how did she and Cillian meet?
Keep reading to find out more…
Cillian met Yvonne while he was acting in a local production of the play Disco Pigs in Ireland back in the late 1990s. She joined him while he toured the UK for the next year and a half performing in the play.
He told The Guardian in 2016, “That time, making Disco Pigs, was kind of the most important period of my life. The people I met there remain my closest friends … They shaped me in terms of my tastes, in terms of what I wanted to do with my life. And it was around the same time I met my wife. She came on tour with us. It was so exciting, 20 years ago or whatever it was — we were all just kids, trying to find our way — but such a special, special time.”
Cillian and Yvonne got married in 2004 and they are parents to two sons – Malachy and Aran, who were born in 2005 and 2007, respectively.
Yvonne is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her website states that her work “encompasses film, performance, sculptural and textile elements, sound and writing. She has an interest in embodied experience of place and belonging by staging live, public, interventions and performances which create surreal and dynamic moments of interaction and connection to place, time and communities. This is immersive work, which is collaborative and generally temporary. Her film installation work often reconstructs the documentation of these performances for gallery contexts.”
While the couple has remained extremely private over the years, Cillian has made some rare comments about their relationship.
Cillian has told People that he credits Yvonne with keeping him grounded.
“It’s very important to have somebody like that,” he said. “My life hasn’t changed in any way, really. I still have the same friends and we go to the same places.”
Here’s what Cillian had to say about shooting those intimate scenes in Oppenheimer.