Liam Neeson
Acting
- Born:
- 1952-06-07
- Place of birth:
- 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
The Fix
Running Wild: Return to the River
Cold Storage
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
The Naked Gun
Ice Road: Vengeance
David Frost Vs
Absolution
Wildcat
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
Conan O'Brien Must Go
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Retribution
Marlowe
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
Bonnie
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Memory
Benjamin Franklin
Ireland
Blacklight
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
The Ice Road
The Marksman
WAMEGO: Addendum
Honest Thief
Made in Italy
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Ordinary Love
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
Lost Lives
Men in Black: International
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Cold Pursuit
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Widows
The Last Horsemen of New York
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
The Commuter
Derry Girls
And the Winner Isn't
Daddy's Home 2
Spielberg
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
The Orville
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Red Nose Day Actually
Karenina & I
Silence
Dream Corp LLC
A Monster Calls
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
Atlanta
Operation Chromite
Love Thy Nature
The Last Laugh
The Huntsman: Winter's War
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
1916
A Christmas Star
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Nature Is Speaking
Ted 2
Entourage
Run All Night
Manny
Taken 3
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Third Person
Road
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
Non-Stop
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Lego Movie
The Nut Job
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Khumba
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
Girl Rising
Taken 2
The Dark Knight Rises
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
Battleship
Wrath of the Titans
The Secret Policeman's Ball
The Grey
Life's Too Short
The Jonathan Ross Show
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Unknown
Buccaneers & Bones
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Next Three Days
Conan
The Wildest Dream
The A-Team
Clash of the Titans
Chloe
After.Life
Live from Studio Five
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Five Minutes of Heaven
The Other Man
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Taken
The Birth of Christ
Trumbo
The Graham Norton Show
Seraphim Falls
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
Home
Xavier
El hormiguero
The One Show
The Path to Redemption
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Breakfast on Pluto
Batman Begins
Kingdom of Heaven
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Kinsey
The Story of Star Wars
Patrick
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Love Actually
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Coral Reef Adventure
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Gangs of New York
Liberty's Kids
K-19: The Widowmaker
The Big Bang
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
The Maze
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I
The Mind's Big Bang
Evolution
Journey into Amazing Caves
Inside The Space Station
The Endurance
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Gun Shy
The Haunting
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Family Guy
Les Misérables
Everest
Parkinson
The View
A Leap of Faith
Michael Collins
The Daily Show
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Before and After
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Lumière & Company
Out of Ireland
Rob Roy
Miss Sarajevo
Nell
Schindler's List
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Ethan Frome
Leap of Faith
Ruby Cairo
Husbands and Wives
Shining Through
Revolver
Under Suspicion
The Big Man
Darkman
The Simpsons
Next of Kin
High Spirits
The Good Mother
This Morning
The Dead Pool
Satisfaction
Sweet as You Are
Suspect
A Prayer for the Dying
Hold the Dream
Sworn to Silence
Duet for One
Lamb
The Mission
If Tomorrow Comes
The Delta Force
Arthur the King
The Innocent
Screen Two
A Woman of Substance
Ellis Island
Miami Vice
The Bounty
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Goldene Kamera
Krull
Across the Water
Nature
American Playhouse
Nailed
Excalibur
My Dear Palestrina
Christiana
The Last Window Cleaner
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Pilgrim's Progress
An Audience with...
Saturday Night Live
Playhouse
Film '72
Play for Today
60 Minutes
Omnibus
The Late Late Show
Tony Awards
The Oscars
Golden Globe Awards
The Riker's Ghost
Narco Sub
The Trainer
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
Charlie Johnson in the Flames
Cold Pursuit 2
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
The Splendid Thing
Believe 13