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Liam Neeson

Born 1952-06-07

📍 Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

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).

Filmography 235

as Robert Quinn

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

as Frank Drebin Jr.

Ice Road: Vengeance

Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey

Conan O'Brien Must Go

as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

as Finbar Murphy

as Father Flynn

as Philip Marlowe

Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

The U.S. and the Holocaust

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn

as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

as Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)

Benjamin Franklin

as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)

as Travis Block

Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis

as Self (voice)

Men in Black: International

as Agent High T

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

as Self - Actor

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")

as Harry Rawlings

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

The Last Horsemen of New York

Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History

as Self - Narrator

as Michael MacCauley

as Chief Inspector Byers

And the Winner Isn't

as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)

as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

as Jahavus Dorahl

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

Red Nose Day Actually

as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)

A Monster Calls

as The Monster (voice)

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

as Narrator (voice)

Operation Chromite

as Douglas MacArthur

Love Thy Nature

as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Huntsman: Winter's War

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

A Christmas Star

as Narrator / Radio DJ

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Nature Is Speaking

as Jimmy Conlon

A Walk Among the Tombstones

as Matthew Scudder

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

as Mustafa (voice)

as Narrator (voice)

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys

as Self - Narrator

Late Night with Seth Meyers

as Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)

as Raccoon (voice)

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

as History Channel Host (uncredited)

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

as Self (archive footage)

as Phango (voice)

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!

as The Journalist

as Narrator (voice)

The Dark Knight Rises

as Ra's Al Ghul

Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine

as Narrator (voice)

as Admiral Shane

Wrath of the Titans

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Life's Too Short

The Jonathan Ross Show

A Child's Garden of Poetry

as Self (voice)

as Dr. Martin Harris

Buccaneers & Bones

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

as Aslan (voice)

The Next Three Days

The Wildest Dream

Clash of the Titans

as David Stewart

as Eliot Deacon

Live from Studio Five

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Five Minutes of Heaven

as Alistair Little

The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

as Aslan (voice)

The Birth of Christ

as Self - Narrator

The Graham Norton Show

Sergeant York: Of God and Country

as Self - Guest

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

as Aslan (voice)

Breakfast on Pluto

Kingdom of Heaven

as Godfrey de Ibelin

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

as Alfred Kinsey

The Story of Star Wars

as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

as Self (archive footage)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

as Self - Narrator (voice)

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

Coral Reef Adventure

as Narrator (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

Gangs of New York

as 'Priest' Vallon

as John Paul Jones (voice)

K-19: The Widowmaker

as Mikhail Polenin

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

The Beginning: Making Episode I

Journey into Amazing Caves

as Narrator (voice)

Inside The Space Station

as Self - Narrator

as Narrator (voice)

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

as Self - Narrator

as Charles Mayough

as Dr. David Marrow

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

as Qui-Gon Jinn

as Liam Neeson (voice)

Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean

Michael Collins

as Michael Collins

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self - Guest

Before and After

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Lumière & Company

as (segment "John Boorman")

as William Murphy (voice)

as Robert Roy MacGregor

Schindler's List

as Oskar Schindler

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

as Sheriff Will Braverman

Husbands and Wives

as Michael Gates

Shining Through

as Franze-Otto Dietrich

Under Suspicion

as Danny Scoular

as Peyton Westlake / Darkman

as Father Sean (voice)

as Martin Brogan

The Good Mother

as Martin Falcon

Sweet as You Are

as Martin Perry

as Carl Wayne Anderson

A Prayer for the Dying

as Liam Docherty

as Blackie O'Neill

Sworn to Silence

as Vincent Cauley

as Michael Lamb

as Father John Fielding

If Tomorrow Comes

as André Trignant

The Delta Force

as Delta Force Member (uncredited)

Arthur the King

A Woman of Substance

as Blackie O'Neill

as Kevin Murray

as Sean Carroon

as Charles Churchill

An Audience with Mel Brooks

as Self (uncredited)

Across the Water

as Narrator (voice)

as Young Catholic

My Dear Palestrina

Dinner at the Sporting Club

Pilgrim's Progress

as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ

An Audience with...

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live

as Self - Cameo (uncredited)

as Self - Nominee

as Self - Presenter

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Nominee

Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed

as Narrator (voice)

Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea