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Jul 21, 2023 · Here's your guide to the cast and the characters they play in Christopher Nolan's epic historical drama 'Oppenheimer,' including Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey...
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- Cillian Murphy As J. Robert Oppenheimer. The Father Of The Atomic Bomb. Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Oppenheimer cast. Murphy is a veteran of Nolan’s films, so his inclusion in this cast should be no surprise.
- Emily Bunt As Katherine ‘Kitty’ Oppenheimer. J. Robert Oppenheimer's Wife. Emily Blunt's Oppenheimer character is Kitty Oppenheimer. Kitty is Robert Oppenheimer's wife, who struggles to cope with his anxiety about work and his affair with Jean Tatlock.
- Matt Damon As Leslie Groves. The Director Of The Manhattan Project. Matt Damon joins the Oppenheimer cast as Leslie Groves. Damon plays Army Corps of Engineers overseer Groves, who is responsible for the construction of the Pentagon and is appointed to direct the Manhattan Project in September 1942.
- Robert Downey Jr. As Lewis Strauss. A Member Of The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) plays Lewis Strauss in the Oppenheimer cast. After playing one of the most famous superheroes in the world in the MCU, Downey plays the villain in Oppenheimer.
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- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Murphy, 47, plays the titular character, Robert J. Oppenheimer. The Irish actor is best known for his starring role as Tommy Shelby in the BBC drama Peaky Blinders.
- Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Blunt, 40, plays Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, the wife of Murphy’s character. Like her on-screen husband, she had a main role in the A Quiet Place series.
- Matt Damon as Lieutenant General Leslie Groves. Damon, 52, plays U.S. military officer Leslie Groves. Damon has starred in Good Will Hunting, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Saving Private Ryan and Mars, and he also played the titular character in the Bourne franchise.
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss. Robert Downey Jr., 58, plays Lewis Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and adversary of Oppenheimer.
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- James D'Arcy. James D'Arcy is the eighth and final Christopher Nolan actor in Oppenheimer. D'Arcy first appeared in Dunkirk in 2017, where he played Colonel Winnant.
- Kenneth Branagh. Kenneth Branagh is a more recent collaborator of Christopher Nolan, having appeared in his three latest films. He first starred as Commander Bolton in Dunkirk before securing the role of Andrei Sator in Tenet and Niels Bohr in Oppenheimer.
- David Dastmalchian. Christopher Nolan gave David Dastmalchian his first film role when he cast him as Thomas Schiff in The Dark Knight. Schiff was one of the Joker's henchmen and a former resident of Arkham Asylum.
- Casey Affleck. Casey Affleck portrays Boris Pash, a United States Army military intelligence officer, in Oppenheimer. Like many others in this ensemble cast, Affleck doesn't have a big role in the film, as he only appears in one scene where he ruthlessly interrogates Oppenheimer.
- Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders, A Quiet Place Part II) leads the film as the titular character, J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- Emily Blunt as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer. Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place) will play Katherine Oppenheimer, the wife of Cillian Murphy’s character. While we don’t know how big Blunt’s role will be in the upcoming film, we expect it to be a significant role considering her connection to Robert Oppenheimer.
- Matt Damon as Leslie Groves. Matt Damon was previously in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Oppenheimer is the first time the two reunited since the 2014 epic.
- Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss. has done it all. He’s been on the small screen with shows like Ally McBeal, done dramas like Zodiac, and was the face of the biggest franchise in the world as Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Jul 21, 2023 · Oppenheimer: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich. The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller drama film [ a] written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. [ 8] It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
