Cillian Murphy‘s son Aran looked the spitting image of his Hollywood star dad as he lands a role on a major new HBO series.
The rising star, 19, is following in his dad’s footsteps with a part in the highly anticipated new drama Youth.
Aran is set to appear as Ruairi, a troubled and emotionally unravelling teenage son who gets easily sucked into dodgy social media trends.
He stars alongside fellow Irish actress Sharon Horgan, Rupert Friend and Robbie Gee.
On Friday, the actor was joined by his co-stars on the red carpet in London for a screening of their new show.
Snaps from the event went viral on social media, with users amazed by Aran’s striking resemblance to Cillian after seeing him on the red carpet.
Cillian Murphy’s son Aran looked the spitting image of his Hollywood star dad as he lands a role on a major new HBO series (Left Aran and right, Cillian)
The rising star, 19, is following in his dad’s footsteps with a part in the highly anticipated new drama Youth
They commented: ‘It’s too similar! My gosh!’
‘Literally copy and paste Cillian to a T!!!’
‘He is more Cillian than Cillian himself,’
‘Just copy of Cillian Murphy; they’re so similar,’
‘Copy n paste version of his dad’,
‘I thought that was young him,’
‘Oh my God, they cloned him!’
‘No DNA test needed with this one.’
Aran may be young, but he has already built up a strong portfolio in both film and TV.
On Friday, the actor was joined by his co-stars on the red carpet in London for a screening of their new show (pictured with Sharon Horgan and Sharlene Whyte)
Snaps from the event went viral on social media, with users amazed by Aran’s striking resemblance to Cillian after seeing him on the red carpet
Earlier this year, he featured in director Taika Waititi’s highly anticipated sci-fi literary adaptation Klara and the Sun alongside Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams.
Last year he joined the cast of WAR, a HBO and Sky co-production which featured Dominic West and Sienna Miller.
Aran made his formal feature film debut in Andrew Legge’s critically acclaimed indie sci-fi mystery Lola in 2022.
The rising star also has friends in high places, with Taylor Swift even recalling meeting the actor and his older brother during awards season.
Cillian and his family met the pop star at an Oscars party, and on an episode of The Graham Norton Show last year, Taylor sought out Cillian’s son in the studio audience.
Revealing their surprise meeting, Cillian said: ‘We were at a party and I had the whole gang and my family, and my kids. I don’t think my kids were legally allowed to be there.’
Taylor replied: ‘I don’t know but they were delightful. Your sons are the future of our world. They were such great conversationalists they were interesting and interested, that’s a real accomplishment.’
‘They’re here aren’t they?’ actress Greta Lee asked, as Cillian said: ‘One of them is here yeah, Aran. Wait where is he? Maybe he’s not here.’
But Aran was indeed in the audience and recognising him, in part due to his striking resemblance to his father, Taylor grinned as she pointed out to the audience and said: ‘Oh he’s right there, you can tell!’
Cillian’s son was sweetly spotted in The Graham Norton Show audience by Taylor Swift in an episode last year
The Irish actor and his brood met the pop star at an Oscars party and on the chat show, Taylor sought out Aran in the crowd
Host Graham Norton laughed, as he added: ‘Oh my god he is so Cillian Murphy style.
‘If this was a game show we’ve all just won a prize.’
Cillian and his family now live in Dublin after he reportedly splashed out close to £1.7million on a Victorian townhouse.
The four-storey home, originally built in 1863, is located in south Co. Dublin, and has six double bedrooms as well as four reception rooms.
While they are now based in Ireland, his sons were born in London and stayed there until 2015, with the actor 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 told the Armchair Expert podcast.
‘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.
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.’
While Aran is pursuing acting, his older brother Malachy, 20, has shown an interest in music, a passion that his father has encouraged.
