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Who\u2019s Who in Oppenheimer? Breaking Down Christopher Nolan's A-List Cast

Director Christopher Nolan has assembled an incredible cast for\u00a0Oppenheimer. Here's a primer on who they play.

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Director\u00a0Christopher Nolan\u00a0once more turns his camera on history with his latest film,\u00a0Oppenheimer,\u00a0which opens exclusively in theaters on July 21. As writer and director, Nolan revisits the development of the Manhattan Project through the eyes of the \"father of the atomic bomb,\"\u00a0J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy). As a theoretical physicist, Oppenheimer was recruited\u00a0by the United States to be the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory where he assembled some of greatest scientific minds of the time to develop weapons to aid the ending of World War II.

In documenting the grave moment in history,\u00a0Nolan has also assembled an incredible ensemble cast to play Oppenheimer's inner circle of family and friends, as well as the scientists and military men who surrounded him as they raced to create the first atomic bomb which was detonated on\u00a0July 16, 1945.\u00a0

WATCH NBC WEB EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0\"It Feels Very Intimate:\" Cillian Murphy on Working with Christopher Nolan and His Prep for Oppenheimer

It's a complex story with a lot of players, so there's nothing wrong with studying up on names and faces that are integral to the narrative. To help, NBC Insider has compiled this cheat sheet for just some of the over 40 roles encompassing a laundry list of A-list and top-tier character actors.\u00a0

Cillian Murphy\u00a0as\u00a0J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Cillian Murphy attends the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises at The Royal Festival Hall on May 14, 2023 in London, England. Photo: Jeff Spicer/BAFTA/Getty Images for BAFTA

As a Nolan five-timer, Murphy returns to the Nolan fold to take on the controversial figure of\u00a0J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film's portrayal of the scientist is informed heavily\u00a0by the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize-winning book\u00a0American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.\u00a0The film aims to lay out the complex moral journey that Oppenheimer took, as a man of huge intellect with the power to change history forever via his creation.\u00a0

Emily Blunt\u00a0as\u00a0Katherine \"Kitty\" Oppenheimer

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Emily Blunt plays Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine Oppenheimer, who was married three times before she met Robert. The film provides insight into the woman who was an accomplished biologist and botanist in her own right. However, she retired her career to become a mother and moved to Los Alamos with Robert and their children. During that period, she suffered from isolation and addiction, which caused friction in her marriage even though she was Oppenheimer's biggest champion.

Robert Downey Jr.\u00a0as\u00a0Lewis Strauss

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Robert Downey Jr. attends the 9th Annual Breakthrough Prize Ceremony at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

A prime figure in the United States' WWII policy, Lewis Strauss, played by Downey Jr., was a founding commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. He was also a formidable figure pressing Oppenheimer in his development of the atomic bomb. An advocate for\u00a0H-bomb testing as a means to shorten the war, Strauss and Oppenheimer often clashed due to their opposing views.\u00a0

Florence Pugh\u00a0as\u00a0Jean Tatlock

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Oppenheimer had two influential women in his life, his wife Kitty and his mistress, Jean Tatlock. Pugh embodies the woman who was a Stanford-educated psychiatrist and engaged in a years-long romance with Oppenheimer. Robert proposed to her twice, and she declined, which led to him seeing Kitty. But Jean and Robert still continued their affair even after his marriage. Their relationship was eventually used against him in future security hearings.\u00a0

Matt Damon\u00a0as\u00a0Leslie Groves

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Leslie Groves was an officer in the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers who was made a Brigadiere General and appointed the lead on the Manhattan Project. He recruited\u00a0Oppenheimer to the project and became one of his greatest defenders despite their oppositional political and world views. They had an unexpected friendship and partnership in making what would become one of the world's most feared inventions.\u00a0

Kenneth Branagh\u00a0as\u00a0Niels Bohr

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The 1922 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, Niels Bohr was known and revered by Oppenheimer for his \u201cCopenhagen Interpretation\u201d of quantum mechanics. He was recruited by Oppenheimer to join the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. The press notes for Oppenheimer\u00a0describe Bohr as the Obi-Wan to Oppenheimer, as his chief counsel and one of the primary brains behind \"the bomb.\"

Matthew Modine\u00a0as\u00a0Vannevar Bush

\"Matthew
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Actor Matthew Modine plays Vannevar Bush, who was the\u00a0director of the newly formed Office of Scientific Research and Development. It was his division that sounded the alarm about other countries developing an atom bomb so he\u00a0mobilized the military-industrial complex to enter the race to crack the code of fission.\u00a0

Benny Safdie\u00a0as\u00a0Edward Teller

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History labels Edward Teller as\u00a0\u201cthe father of the hydrogen bomb\" and a mental foil to Oppenheimer. He was recruited by Oppenheimer but ended up being a difficult team player. He was at constant odds with Robert as they clashed over focus. Teller was intent on\u00a0building more powerful hydrogen bombs, and was the loudest voice about their work potentially setting the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on fire. Played by\u00a0Benny Safdie, the actor admits he almost became a physicist before he decided on pursuing acting, so this role brings him full circle.\u00a0

Tom Conti\u00a0as\u00a0Albert Einstein

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Tony Award winner Tom Conti dons the iconic hair and eyebrows to play\u00a0theory of relativity scientists, Albert Einstein. It was his work that opened the door to being able to make the atomic bomb. Einstein consulted closely with Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project.\u00a0

Oppenheimer\u00a0opens exclusively in theaters on July 21.\u00a0

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\nChristopher Nolan's Oppenheimer \u2014 now in theaters \u2014 details the development of the atomic bomb and has a huge cast of famous actors playing physicists, politicians, military-types, physicists, and more physicists. But which star is portraying which scientist and power player? Find out with our guide to the cast and their respective characters below.\n

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\nCillian Murphy in 'Oppenheimer' and the real J. Robert Oppenheimer.\nUniversal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer

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\nNolan cast his longtime collaborator Cillian Murphy in the lead role of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called \"father of the atomic bomb\" who headed up the Manhattan Project during World War II. \"No one knew what I was up to, no one knew what I was doing,\" Nolan told EW, explaining how he let Murphy know he wanted him for the role. \"To be able to pick up the phone, be like, 'This is the one where you carry the movie and really get to show what you can do,' it's honestly one of my favorite moments in the movie business, when I had that conversation.\"\n

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\nEmily Blunt in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life "Kitty" Oppenheimer.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, CORBIS/Getty\n
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Emily Blunt is Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

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\nEmily Blunt reunited with her A Quiet Place Part II costar Murphy to play Oppenheimer's wife Kitty, who moved to New Mexico with her husband after he took over the Manhattan Project. \"I went and met Chris in L.A.,\" the actress explained during EW's Around the Table conversation, which took place before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike. \"So we talked for an hour or so, and then he's just very casual, and he goes, 'So it's the part of his wife and I'd love you to take a look at it.' And you're like, is this an offer? [Laughs] So I went into the living room and read the script and it was just so heart-racing. It was so awesome.\"\n

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\nMatt Damon in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Gen. Leslie Groves.\nUniversal Pictures, MPI/Getty\n
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Matt Damon is Leslie Groves

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\nInterstellar actor Matt Damon returned to the Nolan fold to play Lt. Gen. Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project who appointed Oppenheimer to directly oversee the development of the atomic bomb. \"I was so blown away by the script,\" the Bourne franchise star said. \"It's in the first person, which I'd never seen before. So rather than say, 'Oppenheimer crosses the room' it says 'I walk across the room.' It has a visceral effect on you, and it pulls you right in, which is the point.\"\n

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\nRobert Downey Jr. in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Lewis Strauss.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images\n
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\nNolan gifted Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. the plum supporting role of Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, whose General Advisory Committee was chaired by Oppenheimer. When Downey was first given the script for Oppenheimer, at Nolan's house, he was surprised to discover the screenplay came on red paper, for security reasons. \"I guess there's something about it that makes it that you forget it as soon as you read it,\" joked Downey. \"I don't know what those colors are. Anyway, it's a thing. You read the script, it's written in the first person, you're transported, and it's a journey to read it, and then at the end of that, the guy who wrote the script you just read is asking you if you want to do it. It's kind of like being hypnotized.\"\n

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\nFlorence Pugh in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Jean Tatlock.\nUniversal Pictures; Library of Congress\n
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\nBlack Widow actress Florence Pugh has the small but vital role of Oppenheimer's troubled lover, the psychiatrist Jean Tatlock (photos of whom are not readily available). \"Working with Florence was amazing,\" said Nolan. \"[It was] a very tough role. Very precise, the screen time \u2014 short, but so important in Oppenheimer's life.\"\n

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\nTom Conti in 'Oppenheimer' and the real Albert Einstein.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nScottish actor Tom Conti scored an Oscar nomination portraying an alcoholic poet in 1983's Reuben, Reuben and later appeared on Friends as the father of Emily Mortimer's character. In Oppenheimer, he plays Einstein, the famous physicist and a resident scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Research, where Oppenheimer was director from 1947 to 1966.\n

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\nDavid Dastmalchian got his big break when Nolan cast him as Thomas Schiff in 2005's The Dark Knight. Eighteen years on, the Ant-Man and Blade Runner 2049 actor plays Borden, a staff member of Congress' Joint Atomic Energy Committee. \"I didn't even think he remembered me,\" the actor said of Nolan in an interview that took place before the actors' strike. \"I didn't even think he would know who I was. It turns out I was wrong, and he gave me an opportunity to come and play in his incredible creative space, with some of the best actors of our time, all of whom treated me so kindly, and welcomed me, and made me feel like I belonged.\"\n

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\nFollowing his recent appearances in Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune and on Black Mirror, the Hartnaissance continues with Josh Hartnett's performance as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Lawrence. According to Downey, the star of The Faculty and Pearl Harbor was \"really versed\" in physics: \"I was picking his brain.\"\n

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\nKenneth Branagh, who starred in Nolan's films Dunkirk and Tenet and is, of course, a director and Oscar-winning screenwriter in his own right, plays another Nobel winner, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, something of a mentor to Oppenheimer and other scientists of his generation.\n

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\nNumb3rs star David Krumholtz returns to genius-playing territory as Nobel Laureate Rabi, who befriended Oppenheimer in the '20s when both were traveling in Europe. The physicist later testified on behalf of his pal at the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 hearing to examine whether Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked.\n

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\nRami Malek in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life David L. Hill.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nBohemian Rhapsody Oscar-winner Rami Malek portrays Chicago-based experimental physicist Hill who has a brief but important role to play in the plot of the film. \"Rami Malek comes in for one day and it was an absolute mic drop moment,\" said Downey.\n

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\nUncut Gems co-director Benny Safdie plays Hungarian theoretical physicist Teller, who is best known for his role in the creation of the hydrogen bomb. \"Interestingly, Benny Safdie, he had a moment in his life where he was either going to be a physicist or a filmmaker,\" explained Nolan. \"And, I think fortunately for us, he became a filmmaker and went into the world of film and is now acting as well. But he's a very serious physics nerd, he knows a lot. He was very, very busy when I asked him to take on the role of Teller, but I think he just really wanted to do it because of his love of and knowledge of physics.\"\n

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\nNolan hand-picked veteran movie and TV actor Tony Goldwyn to portray attorney Gray, whose chairing of the Atomic Energy Commission committee examining Oppenheimer's security clearance in the mid-'50s would come to be regarded as a scandal.\n

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\nJason Clarke, the Australian star of Zero Dark Thirty and the Pet Sematary remake, portrays the relentless Robb, special counsel to the Atomic Energy Commission who, in Oppenheimer, interrogates many of the movie's main characters including those played by Murphy, Damon, and Blunt. \"I was genuinely surprised with Jason Clarke,\" Damon told EW. \"The first time I sat in that room and was cross-examined by him... [he was] intimidating. It was great.\"\n

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\nChristopher Nolan's Oppenheimer \u2014 now in theaters \u2014 details the development of the atomic bomb and has a huge cast of famous actors playing physicists, politicians, military-types, physicists, and more physicists. But which star is portraying which scientist and power player? Find out with our guide to the cast and their respective characters below.\n

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Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer

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\nNolan cast his longtime collaborator Cillian Murphy in the lead role of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called \"father of the atomic bomb\" who headed up the Manhattan Project during World War II. \"No one knew what I was up to, no one knew what I was doing,\" Nolan told EW, explaining how he let Murphy know he wanted him for the role. \"To be able to pick up the phone, be like, 'This is the one where you carry the movie and really get to show what you can do,' it's honestly one of my favorite moments in the movie business, when I had that conversation.\"\n

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\nEmily Blunt in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life "Kitty" Oppenheimer.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, CORBIS/Getty\n
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\nEmily Blunt reunited with her A Quiet Place Part II costar Murphy to play Oppenheimer's wife Kitty, who moved to New Mexico with her husband after he took over the Manhattan Project. \"I went and met Chris in L.A.,\" the actress explained during EW's Around the Table conversation, which took place before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike. \"So we talked for an hour or so, and then he's just very casual, and he goes, 'So it's the part of his wife and I'd love you to take a look at it.' And you're like, is this an offer? [Laughs] So I went into the living room and read the script and it was just so heart-racing. It was so awesome.\"\n

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\nInterstellar actor Matt Damon returned to the Nolan fold to play Lt. Gen. Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project who appointed Oppenheimer to directly oversee the development of the atomic bomb. \"I was so blown away by the script,\" the Bourne franchise star said. \"It's in the first person, which I'd never seen before. So rather than say, 'Oppenheimer crosses the room' it says 'I walk across the room.' It has a visceral effect on you, and it pulls you right in, which is the point.\"\n

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\nRobert Downey Jr. in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Lewis Strauss.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images\n
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\nNolan gifted Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. the plum supporting role of Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, whose General Advisory Committee was chaired by Oppenheimer. When Downey was first given the script for Oppenheimer, at Nolan's house, he was surprised to discover the screenplay came on red paper, for security reasons. \"I guess there's something about it that makes it that you forget it as soon as you read it,\" joked Downey. \"I don't know what those colors are. Anyway, it's a thing. You read the script, it's written in the first person, you're transported, and it's a journey to read it, and then at the end of that, the guy who wrote the script you just read is asking you if you want to do it. It's kind of like being hypnotized.\"\n

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\nBlack Widow actress Florence Pugh has the small but vital role of Oppenheimer's troubled lover, the psychiatrist Jean Tatlock (photos of whom are not readily available). \"Working with Florence was amazing,\" said Nolan. \"[It was] a very tough role. Very precise, the screen time \u2014 short, but so important in Oppenheimer's life.\"\n

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\nScottish actor Tom Conti scored an Oscar nomination portraying an alcoholic poet in 1983's Reuben, Reuben and later appeared on Friends as the father of Emily Mortimer's character. In Oppenheimer, he plays Einstein, the famous physicist and a resident scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Research, where Oppenheimer was director from 1947 to 1966.\n

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\nDavid Dastmalchian got his big break when Nolan cast him as Thomas Schiff in 2005's The Dark Knight. Eighteen years on, the Ant-Man and Blade Runner 2049 actor plays Borden, a staff member of Congress' Joint Atomic Energy Committee. \"I didn't even think he remembered me,\" the actor said of Nolan in an interview that took place before the actors' strike. \"I didn't even think he would know who I was. It turns out I was wrong, and he gave me an opportunity to come and play in his incredible creative space, with some of the best actors of our time, all of whom treated me so kindly, and welcomed me, and made me feel like I belonged.\"\n

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\nFollowing his recent appearances in Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune and on Black Mirror, the Hartnaissance continues with Josh Hartnett's performance as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Lawrence. According to Downey, the star of The Faculty and Pearl Harbor was \"really versed\" in physics: \"I was picking his brain.\"\n

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\nKenneth Branagh, who starred in Nolan's films Dunkirk and Tenet and is, of course, a director and Oscar-winning screenwriter in his own right, plays another Nobel winner, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, something of a mentor to Oppenheimer and other scientists of his generation.\n

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\nNumb3rs star David Krumholtz returns to genius-playing territory as Nobel Laureate Rabi, who befriended Oppenheimer in the '20s when both were traveling in Europe. The physicist later testified on behalf of his pal at the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 hearing to examine whether Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked.\n

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\nRami Malek in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life David L. Hill.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nBohemian Rhapsody Oscar-winner Rami Malek portrays Chicago-based experimental physicist Hill who has a brief but important role to play in the plot of the film. \"Rami Malek comes in for one day and it was an absolute mic drop moment,\" said Downey.\n

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\nUncut Gems co-director Benny Safdie plays Hungarian theoretical physicist Teller, who is best known for his role in the creation of the hydrogen bomb. \"Interestingly, Benny Safdie, he had a moment in his life where he was either going to be a physicist or a filmmaker,\" explained Nolan. \"And, I think fortunately for us, he became a filmmaker and went into the world of film and is now acting as well. But he's a very serious physics nerd, he knows a lot. He was very, very busy when I asked him to take on the role of Teller, but I think he just really wanted to do it because of his love of and knowledge of physics.\"\n

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\nNolan hand-picked veteran movie and TV actor Tony Goldwyn to portray attorney Gray, whose chairing of the Atomic Energy Commission committee examining Oppenheimer's security clearance in the mid-'50s would come to be regarded as a scandal.\n

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\nJason Clarke, the Australian star of Zero Dark Thirty and the Pet Sematary remake, portrays the relentless Robb, special counsel to the Atomic Energy Commission who, in Oppenheimer, interrogates many of the movie's main characters including those played by Murphy, Damon, and Blunt. \"I was genuinely surprised with Jason Clarke,\" Damon told EW. \"The first time I sat in that room and was cross-examined by him... [he was] intimidating. It was great.\"\n

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\nChristopher Nolan's Oppenheimer \u2014 now in theaters \u2014 details the development of the atomic bomb and has a huge cast of famous actors playing physicists, politicians, military-types, physicists, and more physicists. But which star is portraying which scientist and power player? Find out with our guide to the cast and their respective characters below.\n

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\nCillian Murphy in 'Oppenheimer' and the real J. Robert Oppenheimer.\nUniversal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer

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\nNolan cast his longtime collaborator Cillian Murphy in the lead role of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called \"father of the atomic bomb\" who headed up the Manhattan Project during World War II. \"No one knew what I was up to, no one knew what I was doing,\" Nolan told EW, explaining how he let Murphy know he wanted him for the role. \"To be able to pick up the phone, be like, 'This is the one where you carry the movie and really get to show what you can do,' it's honestly one of my favorite moments in the movie business, when I had that conversation.\"\n

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\nEmily Blunt in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life "Kitty" Oppenheimer.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, CORBIS/Getty\n
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Emily Blunt is Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer

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\nEmily Blunt reunited with her A Quiet Place Part II costar Murphy to play Oppenheimer's wife Kitty, who moved to New Mexico with her husband after he took over the Manhattan Project. \"I went and met Chris in L.A.,\" the actress explained during EW's Around the Table conversation, which took place before the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike. \"So we talked for an hour or so, and then he's just very casual, and he goes, 'So it's the part of his wife and I'd love you to take a look at it.' And you're like, is this an offer? [Laughs] So I went into the living room and read the script and it was just so heart-racing. It was so awesome.\"\n

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\nMatt Damon in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Gen. Leslie Groves.\nUniversal Pictures, MPI/Getty\n
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Matt Damon is Leslie Groves

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\nInterstellar actor Matt Damon returned to the Nolan fold to play Lt. Gen. Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project who appointed Oppenheimer to directly oversee the development of the atomic bomb. \"I was so blown away by the script,\" the Bourne franchise star said. \"It's in the first person, which I'd never seen before. So rather than say, 'Oppenheimer crosses the room' it says 'I walk across the room.' It has a visceral effect on you, and it pulls you right in, which is the point.\"\n

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\nRobert Downey Jr. in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Lewis Strauss.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images\n
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Robert Downey Jr. is Lewis Strauss

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\nNolan gifted Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr. the plum supporting role of Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, whose General Advisory Committee was chaired by Oppenheimer. When Downey was first given the script for Oppenheimer, at Nolan's house, he was surprised to discover the screenplay came on red paper, for security reasons. \"I guess there's something about it that makes it that you forget it as soon as you read it,\" joked Downey. \"I don't know what those colors are. Anyway, it's a thing. You read the script, it's written in the first person, you're transported, and it's a journey to read it, and then at the end of that, the guy who wrote the script you just read is asking you if you want to do it. It's kind of like being hypnotized.\"\n

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\nFlorence Pugh in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Jean Tatlock.\nUniversal Pictures; Library of Congress\n
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\nBlack Widow actress Florence Pugh has the small but vital role of Oppenheimer's troubled lover, the psychiatrist Jean Tatlock (photos of whom are not readily available). \"Working with Florence was amazing,\" said Nolan. \"[It was] a very tough role. Very precise, the screen time \u2014 short, but so important in Oppenheimer's life.\"\n

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\nTom Conti in 'Oppenheimer' and the real Albert Einstein.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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Tom Conti is Albert Einstein

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\nScottish actor Tom Conti scored an Oscar nomination portraying an alcoholic poet in 1983's Reuben, Reuben and later appeared on Friends as the father of Emily Mortimer's character. In Oppenheimer, he plays Einstein, the famous physicist and a resident scholar at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Research, where Oppenheimer was director from 1947 to 1966.\n

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\nDavid Dastmalchian and the real William Borden.\nKarwai Tang/WireImage, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nDavid Dastmalchian got his big break when Nolan cast him as Thomas Schiff in 2005's The Dark Knight. Eighteen years on, the Ant-Man and Blade Runner 2049 actor plays Borden, a staff member of Congress' Joint Atomic Energy Committee. \"I didn't even think he remembered me,\" the actor said of Nolan in an interview that took place before the actors' strike. \"I didn't even think he would know who I was. It turns out I was wrong, and he gave me an opportunity to come and play in his incredible creative space, with some of the best actors of our time, all of whom treated me so kindly, and welcomed me, and made me feel like I belonged.\"\n

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\nJosh Hartnett in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Ernest Lawrence.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Smith Collection/Gado/Getty\n
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\nFollowing his recent appearances in Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune and on Black Mirror, the Hartnaissance continues with Josh Hartnett's performance as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest Lawrence. According to Downey, the star of The Faculty and Pearl Harbor was \"really versed\" in physics: \"I was picking his brain.\"\n

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\nKenneth Branagh in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Niels Bohr.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nKenneth Branagh, who starred in Nolan's films Dunkirk and Tenet and is, of course, a director and Oscar-winning screenwriter in his own right, plays another Nobel winner, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr, something of a mentor to Oppenheimer and other scientists of his generation.\n

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\nDavid Krumholtz in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Isidor Isaac Rabi.\nUniversal Pictures/ Youtube, Corbis/Getty\n
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\nNumb3rs star David Krumholtz returns to genius-playing territory as Nobel Laureate Rabi, who befriended Oppenheimer in the '20s when both were traveling in Europe. The physicist later testified on behalf of his pal at the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 hearing to examine whether Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked.\n

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\nRami Malek in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life David L. Hill.\nMelinda Sue Gordon/ Universal Pictures, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nBohemian Rhapsody Oscar-winner Rami Malek portrays Chicago-based experimental physicist Hill who has a brief but important role to play in the plot of the film. \"Rami Malek comes in for one day and it was an absolute mic drop moment,\" said Downey.\n

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\nBenny Safdie in 'Oppenheimer' and the real-life Edward Teller.\nUniversal Pictures/ Youtube, Bettmann Archive\n
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\nUncut Gems co-director Benny Safdie plays Hungarian theoretical physicist Teller, who is best known for his role in the creation of the hydrogen bomb. \"Interestingly, Benny Safdie, he had a moment in his life where he was either going to be a physicist or a filmmaker,\" explained Nolan. \"And, I think fortunately for us, he became a filmmaker and went into the world of film and is now acting as well. But he's a very serious physics nerd, he knows a lot. He was very, very busy when I asked him to take on the role of Teller, but I think he just really wanted to do it because of his love of and knowledge of physics.\"\n

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\nTony Goldwyn and real-life Gordon Gray.\nDominik Bindl/WireImage, AP Photo\n
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\nNolan hand-picked veteran movie and TV actor Tony Goldwyn to portray attorney Gray, whose chairing of the Atomic Energy Commission committee examining Oppenheimer's security clearance in the mid-'50s would come to be regarded as a scandal.\n

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\nJason Clarke, the Australian star of Zero Dark Thirty and the Pet Sematary remake, portrays the relentless Robb, special counsel to the Atomic Energy Commission who, in Oppenheimer, interrogates many of the movie's main characters including those played by Murphy, Damon, and Blunt. \"I was genuinely surprised with Jason Clarke,\" Damon told EW. \"The first time I sat in that room and was cross-examined by him... [he was] intimidating. It was great.\"\n

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