JOHN C. REILLY (Mr. Murray) received Oscar® and Golden Globe® nominations for Best Supporting Actor for his standout performance as Amos Hart in the Academy Award®-winning film, “Chicago.” Additionally, he was named Best Supporting Actor by the Las Vegas Film Critics and nominated by the Chicago Film Critics in the same category. The same year, Reilly starred in two other Academy Award®-nominated films, Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York” and Stephen Daldry’s “The Hours,” making it the first time that a single actor had been part of three of the five films in this prestigious category.
In 2004, Reilly starred with Leonard DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett in Martin Scorsese’s critically acclaimed epic about the life and times of Howard Hughes, “The Aviator,” sharing the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast from the Screen Actors Guild. Reilly also won accolades starring opposite Jennifer Aniston as her husband in “The Good Girl,” a role which garnered him an IFP Spirit Award nomination.
Reilly’s ability to disappear into a role has caught the attention of some of the greatest directors of our time—including Brian De Palma, Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lasse Hallstrom, Wolfgang Peterson and Neil Jordan—who have utilized his versatility to create their worlds on film.
Reilly’s other recent film credits include the crime drama “Criminal,” as well as the critically acclaimed ensemble satire “The Anniversary Party,” co-directed by Alan Cumming and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wolfgang Peterson’s “The Perfect Storm,” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” Prior to that, he co-starred in “For Love of the Game,” with Kevin Costner, and was also featured in the Terrence Malick’s Academy Award®-nominated “The Thin Red Line.” He charmed audiences in Anderson’s Oscar®-nominated “Boogie Nights,” playing porn star Reed Rothchild, having previously worked with Anderson on his acclaimed debut “Hard Eight,” starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow. Among Reilly’s other feature credits are “Georgia,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” “Dolores Claiborne,” “The River Wild,” “We’re No Angels,” “State of Grace,” “Hoffa” and “Casualties of War.”
Reilly frequently returns to his theater roots and recently was seen in the title role of “Marty,” based on the movie and Paddy Chayefsky screenplay of the same name, directed by Mark Brokaw and choreographed by Rob Ashford. In 2000 he appeared in Sam Shepard’s Tony Award-nominated Broadway production “True West,” starring opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor.
His other stage credits include starring with Gary Sinise in the Steppenwolf Theater production of “The Grapes of Wrath” and producing and playing the title role in Ionesco’s “Exit the King,” at the Actors Gang Theater in Los Angeles. Reilly currently is starring as Stanley in the Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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