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name: "Alex Murphy"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alex-murphy-1656683"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 December 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T16:10:44.374936+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alex Murphy

Actor. Born 26 December 1997 in Cork, Ireland.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 December 1997, Cork, Ireland
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Murphy_(actor), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48815686, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7368158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1656683

## Biography

Alex Murphy is an Irish actor. He was born on 26 December 1997 in Cork and trained at The Lir Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 2019.

Murphy is best known for playing Conor MacSweeney in the 2016 comedy film *The Young Offenders* and its BBC/RTÉ television series spin-off from 2018. For the film he received an IFTA nomination for Best Actor in a Lead Role – Film. In 2022 he appeared as Philip in the television adaptation of *Conversations with Friends*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), Fi1m 55, as Philip — [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Saipan* (2025), as Eddy Power
- *Boglands* (2024), series, as Garda Barry Roche
- *Spud* (2024), as Colin
- *The Loneliest Boy in the World* (2022), as Doug
- *Conversations with Friends* (2022), series, as Philip — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/tv/conversations-with-friends.md)
- *The Young Offenders* (2018), series, as Conor McSweeney
- *The Young Offenders* (2016), as Conor McSweeney

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