Cillian Murphy plays a blinder with €1m cash pile

The cash pile at the entertainment firm co-owned by movie star Cillian Murphy topped €1m at the end of last year.

The 40-year-old Cork native has earned rave reviews for his portrayal of feared family crime boss, Thomas Shelby in the hit BBC show, Peaky Blinders. The BBC has commissioned a further two series.

The new figures show that profits at Mr Murphy’s Fionntrá Siamsa Teoranta last year jumped by €685,253 to €1.05m.

The Companies Office figures show the firm’s cash pile jumped by €816,566 to over €1.01m. The firm was only incorporated in December 2013.

The accounts — signed off by Mr Murphy and his wife Yvonne McGuinness — show that €221,406 was owed to creditors at year end, including €87,993 in corporation tax and €10,911 in Vat.

A subsidiary firm Mám an Óraigh Teoranta owned tangible assets of €390,000. It owed the same amount to creditors at the end of last December

A native of Douglas, Cork, Mr Murphy has mixed work on Hollywood blockbusters such as Batman movies with Christopher Nolan’s Inception and locally-produced movies Breakfast on Pluto and Disco Pigs.

Mr Murphy added to his coffers last year with Hollywood movie In the Heart of the Sea which was based on the real events of the 1800s that inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick.

His latest movie, a World War II thriller called Anthropoid is due to be released in the US next month.