Oppenheimer
2023 film by Christopher Nolan · Released July 20, 2023
Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the development of the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside an ensemble supporting cast that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh. Oppenheimer was announced in September 2021.
Cast ages when filming began (February 28, 2022)
- Cillian Murphy, as J. Robert Oppenheimer: 45
- Robert Downey Jr., as Rear Admiral Lewis Strauss: 56
- Matt Damon, as Gen: 51
- Emily Blunt, as Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer: 39
- Florence Pugh, as Jean Tatlock: 26
- Rami Malek, as David L. Hill: 40
- Benny Safdie, as Edward Teller: 36
- Josh Hartnett, as Ernest Lawrence: 43
- Dane DeHaan, as Maj Gen: 36
- Jack Quaid, as Richard Feynman: 29
- Matthew Modine, as Vannevar Bush: 62
- Dylan Arnold, as Frank Oppenheimer: 28
- Alden Ehrenreich, as a Senate aide to Lewis Strauss during Strauss's nomination f: 32
- David Krumholtz, as Isidor Isaac Rabi: 43
- Michael Angarano, as Robert Serber: 34
- Kenneth Branagh, as Niels Bohr: 61
- David Dastmalchian, as William L. Borden: 46
- Jason Clarke, as Roger Robb: 52
- Louise Lombard, as Ruth Tolman: 51
- Scott Grimes, as Counsel to Lewis Strauss: 50
- James D'Arcy, as Patrick Blackett: 46
- Guy Burnet, as George C. Eltenton: 38
- Josh Peck, as Kenneth Bainbridge: 35
- Harrison Sloan Gilbertson, as Philip Morrison: 28
- Emma Dumont, as Jackie Oppenheimer: 27
- Matthias Schweighöfer, as Werner Heisenberg: 40
- Gustaf Skarsgård, as Hans Bethe: 41
- Devon Bostick, as Seth Neddermeyer: 30
- Alex Wolff, as Luis Walter Alvarez: 24