Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool' — Hackers Character Profile

About Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool'

Banned from computers until 18, he moves to NYC and joins a hacker group. He makes a hack duel bet with Kate, copies a crucial disk, and surrenders a fake copy to the villain Plague. He leads the final group hack to expose the fraud, evades arrest, and starts a relationship with Kate.

Dade Murphy / 'Crash Override' / 'Zero Cool' — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

Jonny Lee Miller

Appears in

Hackers (1995)

Role

Protagonist

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• Kate Libby / 'Acid Burn' (Angelina Jolie)
• Emmanuelle Goldstein / 'Cereal Killer' (Matthew Lillard)
• Joey Pardella (Jesse Bradford)
• S.S. Agent Ray (Marc Anthony)
• Ramon Sanchez / 'Phantom Phreak' (Renoly Santiago)
• Paul Cook / 'Lord Nikon' (Laurence Mason)
• Attorney (Felicity Huffman)
• Hal (Penn Jillette)
• Razor (Darren Lee)
• Blade (Peter Y. Kim)
• Lauren Murphy (Alberta Watson)
• Eugene Belford / 'The Plague' / Mr. Babbage (Fisher Stevens)