William John "Liam" Neeson OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor who 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). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie | Lost Lives | 2019-10-10 | |
Movie | Men in Black: International | Agent High T | 2019-06-12 |
Movie | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 2019-12-18 |
Movie | Ordinary Love | Tom | 2019-12-06 |
Movie | The Commuter | Michael MacCauley | 2018-01-11 |
Movie | The Last Horsemen of New York | 2018-05-11 | |
Movie | Widows | Harry Rawlings | 2018-11-06 |
Movie | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") | 2018-11-09 |
Movie | Ralph Breaks the Internet | Additional Voices (voice) | 2018-11-20 |
Movie | Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence | Self | 2017-03-28 |
Movie | Red Nose Day Actually | Daniel | 2017-03-24 |
Movie | In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America | Narrator | 2017-09-24 |
Movie | Daddy's Home 2 | Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) | 2017-11-09 |
Movie | And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
Movie | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Mark Felt | 2017-09-28 |
Movie | Spielberg | Self - Segment "Schindler's List" | 2017-10-05 |
Movie | The Last Laugh | Self | 2016-04-18 |
Movie | Operation Chromite | Douglas MacArthur | 2016-07-27 |
Movie | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats | Himself | 2016-04-03 |
Movie | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2016-04-06 |
Movie | For the Love of Spock | Leo Cutter (archive footage) | 2016-09-09 |
Movie | A Monster Calls | The Monster (voice) | 2016-10-07 |
Movie | Silence | Ferreira | 2016-12-22 |
Movie | How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story | Narrator | 2016-09-25 |
Movie | Run All Night | Jimmy Conlon | 2015-03-11 |
Movie | Entourage | Liam Neeson | 2015-06-03 |
Movie | Ted 2 | Customer | 2015-06-25 |
Movie | A Christmas Star | Narrator / Radio DJ | 2015-12-29 |
Movie | The Lego Movie | Bad Cop/Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) | 2014-02-06 |
Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
Movie | The Nut Job | Raccoon (voice) | 2014-01-17 |
Movie | Non-Stop | Bill Marks | 2014-02-26 |
Movie | Taken 3 | Bryan Mills | 2014-12-16 |
Movie | Manny | Narrator | 2014-12-31 |
Movie | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Clinch Leatherwood | 2014-05-22 |
Movie | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Matthew Scudder | 2014-09-18 |
Movie | The Prophet | Mustafa (voice) | 2014-09-06 |
Movie | Khumba | Phango (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
Movie | Third Person | Michael | 2013-09-09 |
Movie | Girl Rising | Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-07 |
Movie | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! | The Journalist | 2013-11-28 |
Movie | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-24 |
Movie | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Himself | 2013-12-20 |
Movie | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | History Channel Host (uncredited) | 2013-12-18 |
Movie | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Self | 2012-03-04 |
Movie | Wrath of the Titans | Zeus | 2012-03-28 |
Movie | The Grey | John Ottway | 2012-01-26 |
Movie | Battleship | Admiral Shane | 2012-04-11 |
Movie | Taken 2 | Bryan Mills | 2012-09-27 |
Movie | The Dark Knight Rises | Ra's al Ghul | 2012-07-17 |
Movie | Unknown | Dr. Martin Harris | 2011-02-16 |
Movie | A Child's Garden of Poetry | 2011-04-28 | |
Movie | Clash of the Titans | Zeus | 2010-03-26 |
Movie | Chloe | David Stewart | 2010-02-25 |
Movie | The A-Team | John "Hannibal" Smith | 2010-06-09 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice) | 2010-12-02 |
Movie | The Wildest Dream | Narrator | 2010-08-06 |
Movie | The Next Three Days | Damon | 2010-11-18 |
Movie | Five Minutes of Heaven | Alistair Little | 2009-01-19 |
Movie | After.Life | Eliot Deacon | 2009-11-07 |
Movie | The Other Man | Peter | 2008-12-25 |
Movie | Taken | Bryan Mills | 2008-02-18 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Aslan (voice) | 2008-05-15 |
Movie | Ponyo | Fujimoto (english version) (voice) | 2008-07-19 |
Movie | Seraphim Falls | Carver | 2007-01-26 |
Movie | Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
Movie | Sergeant York: Of God and Country | 2006-11-07 | |
Movie | The Path to Redemption | Self | 2006-01-01 |
Movie | Kingdom of Heaven | Godfrey de Ibelin | 2005-05-03 |
Movie | Batman Begins | Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul | 2005-06-10 |
Movie | Breakfast on Pluto | Father Liam | 2005-11-16 |
Movie | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice) | 2005-12-07 |
Movie | The Story of Star Wars | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) | 2004-08-18 |
Movie | Patrick | Narrator | 2004-03-14 |
Movie | Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | 2004-09-04 |
Movie | Martin Luther | Himself - Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-09 |
Movie | Love Actually | Daniel | 2003-09-07 |
Movie | Ultimate Fights from the Movies | Danny (Crossing the Line) (archive footage) | 2002-04-16 |
Movie | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive audio) (uncredited) | 2002-05-15 |
Movie | Gangs of New York | "Priest" Vallon | 2002-12-14 |
Series | Liberty's Kids | John Paul Jones | 2002-09-02 |
Movie | K-19: The Widowmaker | Mikhail Polenin | 2002-07-19 |
Movie | The Beginning: Making 'Episode I' | Self | 2001-10-16 |
Movie | Gun Shy | Charles Mayough | 2000-02-04 |
Series | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Himself - Narrator | 2000-02-09 |
Movie | The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | Narrator (voice) | 2000-09-02 |
Movie | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Narrator | 2000-02-09 |
Movie | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn | 1999-05-19 |
Movie | The Haunting | Dr. David Marrow | 1999-07-23 |
Movie | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | 1998-05-01 |
Movie | Everest | Narrator | 1998-03-06 |
Movie | Before and After | Ben Ryan | 1996-02-23 |
Movie | Michael Collins | Michael Collins | 1996-10-25 |
Movie | Rob Roy | Robert Roy MacGregor | 1995-04-13 |
Movie | Lumière and Company | 1995-12-20 | |
Movie | Nell | Dr. Lovell | 1994-12-23 |
Movie | Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler | 1993-12-15 |
Movie | Ethan Frome | Ethan Frome | 1993-03-12 |
Movie | Shining Through | Franze-Otto Dietrich | 1992-01-31 |
Movie | Husbands and Wives | Michael Gates | 1992-09-18 |
Movie | Ruby Cairo | Fergus Lamb | 1992-12-12 |
Movie | Leap of Faith | Sheriff Will Braverman | 1992-12-18 |
Movie | Under Suspicion | Tony Aaron | 1991-09-27 |
Movie | Darkman | Peyton Westlake / Darkman | 1990-08-24 |
Movie | The Big Man | Danny Scoular | 1990-08-31 |
Movie | Next of Kin | Briar Gates | 1989-10-20 |
Movie | Satisfaction | Martin Falcon | 1988-02-12 |
Movie | Sweet As You Are | Martin Perry | 1988-01-24 |
Movie | The Dead Pool | Peter Swan | 1988-07-13 |
Movie | The Good Mother | Leo Cutter | 1988-11-04 |
Movie | High Spirits | Martin Brogan | 1988-11-18 |
Movie | A Prayer for the Dying | Liam Docherty | 1987-09-11 |
Movie | Sworn to Silence | Vincent Cauley | 1987-04-06 |
Movie | Suspect | Carl Wayne Anderson | 1987-10-23 |
Series | If Tomorrow Comes | André Trignant | 1986-03-16 |
Movie | The Delta Force | Delta Force Member (uncredited) | 1986-02-14 |
Movie | The Mission | Father John Fielding | 1986-09-24 |
Movie | Lamb | Michael Lamb | 1986-10-10 |
Movie | Duet for One | Totter | 1986-12-25 |
Series | Hold the Dream | Blackie O'Neill | 1986-10-27 |
Movie | The Innocent | John Carns | 1985-03-18 |
Series | A Woman of Substance | Blackie O'Neill | 1985-01-02 |
Movie | Arthur the King | Grak | 1985-04-26 |
Movie | An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) | 1984-02-04 |
Movie | The Bounty | Charles Churchill | 1984-05-04 |
Series | Ellis Island | Kevin Murray | 1984-11-11 |
Movie | Across the Water | Martin | 1983-06-10 |
Movie | Krull | Kegan | 1983-07-29 |
Movie | Excalibur | Gawain | 1981-04-10 |
Movie | The Last Window Cleaner | Himself | 1979-02-13 |
Movie | Dinner at The Sporting Club | Dermot | 1978-11-07 |
Series | Playhouse | Blacksmith | 1974-03-13 |