Who is Yvonne McGuinness, Cillian Murphy’s wife?

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Oppenheimer and Peaky Blinders actor Cillian Murphy, hit the headlines this week after the pair made a rare red-carpet appearance at this week’s Golden Globes awards.Murphy won Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, at the event for his portrayal of the father of the atomic bomb and he thanked his wife and family for their support during his acceptance speech.The speech received much attention as well for the fact his wife kissed him before going up to accept the award – and left lipstick on his cheek.

Taking to the stage to make his victory speech, Murphy joked: “First question, do I have lipstick all over my nose? I am just gonna leave it.”Here’s everything you need to know about McGuinness.The pair met at the start of Murphy’s career when he was touring in a play called Disco Pigs in the ’90s.

Speaking about the moment he met his wife to The Guardian in an interview from 2016, Murphy explained: “That time, making Disco Pigs, was kind of the most important period of my life…The people I met there remain my closest friends….They shaped me in terms of my tastes, in terms of what I wanted to do with my life.“And it was around the same time I met my wife,” he continued. “She came on tour with us.

It was so exciting, 20 years ago or whatever it was — we were all just kids, trying to find our way — but such a special, special time.”McGuinness is a talented professional artist, creating work that, according to her website, “encompasses film, performance, sculptural and textile elements, sound and writing”. “She has an interest in embodied experience of place and belonging by staging live, public, interventions and performances which create surreal and dynamic moments of interaction and connection to place, time and.