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Brendan Gleeson is currently receiving raves and accolades, including a British Independent Film Award nomination, for John Michael McDonagh 's The Guard , in which he stars opposite Don Cheadle .

The UK's National Theatre has confirmed dates and further casting for new productions that will open through June, including Antigone, Detroit and Misterman .

The Irish actor - whose first name begins with a hard K sound - was a breakout star at Sundance in 2003 with the horror hit "28 Days Later." The film about a London man who wakes from a coma to find the land overrun by a plague that has turned people into raging zombies already was a hit in Great Britain when it played at the festival.

Nine years later, Cillian Murphy is back at the Sundance Film Festival, where he got such great exposure that people finally learned to pronounce his name.