Liam Neeson
- Acting
- June 7, 1952 · Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Biography
William John Neeson (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor. He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons. He has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, from major Hollywood studio releases (ie. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe).
Known for
Filmography
- The Mongoose · Ryan 'Fang' Flanagan
- The Lost Children of Tuam · Producer
- The Fix · Larry
- Cold Storage · Robert Quinn
- Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough · Narrator
- The Naked Gun · Frank Drebin Jr.
- Ice Road: Vengeance · Mike McCann
- David Frost Vs · Self
- Absolution · Thug
- Wildcat · Father Flynn
- Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey · Narrator
- Conan O'Brien Must Go · Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
- In the Land of Saints and Sinners · Finbar Murphy
- Retribution · Matt Turner
- Marlowe · Philip Marlowe
- Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici · Self
- Bonnie · Self
- Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi · Qui-Gon Jinn (Voice), Qui-Gon Jinn
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return · Self
- Obi-Wan Kenobi · Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited), Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)
- Memory · Alex Lewis
- Benjamin Franklin · Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (Voice)
- Ireland
- Blacklight · Travis Block
- Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman · Self
- The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine · Self
- The Ice Road · Mike McCann
- The Marksman · Jim
- WAMEGO: Addendum
- Honest Thief · Tom Dolan
- Made in Italy · Robert
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker · Qui-Gon Jinn (Voice)
- Ordinary Love · Tom
- Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis · Narrator
- Lost Lives · Self
- Men in Black: International · Agent High T
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast · Self
- Cold Pursuit · Nels Coxman
- An Oral History of: Schindler's List · Self
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs · Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
- Widows · Harry Rawlings
- The White Crow · Executive producer
- The Last Horsemen of New York
- Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History · Self
- The Commuter · Michael MacCauley
- Derry Girls · Chief Inspector Byers
- And the Winner Isn't · Self
- Daddy's Home 2 · Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
- Spielberg · Self
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House · Mark Felt
- In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America · Narrator
- The Orville · Jahavus Dorahl
- Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence · Self
- Red Nose Day Actually · Daniel
- Karenina & I · Leo Tolstoy
- Silence · Ferreira
- Dream Corp LLC · Joey in the Center of Her Mind (Voice)
- A Monster Calls · The Monster (Voice)
- How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story · Narrator (Voice)
- Atlanta · Liam Neeson
- Operation Chromite · Douglas MacArthur
- Love Thy Nature · Self
- The Last Laugh · Self
- The Huntsman: Winter's War · Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats · Self
- 1916 · Narrator
- A Christmas Star · Narrator / Radio DJ
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self, Mr. Toffee
- Nature Is Speaking · Ice
- Ted 2 · Customer
- Entourage · Liam Neeson
- Run All Night · Jimmy Conlon
- Manny · Narrator
- Taken 3 · Bryan Mills
- A Walk Among the Tombstones · Matthew Scudder
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet · Mustafa (Voice)
- Third Person · Michael
- Road · Narrator (Voice)
- A Million Ways to Die in the West · Clinch
- Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys · Self