Liam Neeson
Born 1952
Known for Schindler's List, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Taken.
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).
Movie Credits
The Mongoose (2026)
Ice Road: Vengeance (2025)
The Naked Gun (2025)
Absolution (2024)
Dragon Tales (2023)
Marlowe (2023)
Retribution (2023)
Blacklight (2022)
Memory (2022)
The Ice Road (2021)
The Marksman (2021)
Honest Thief (2020)
Made in Italy (2020)
Cold Pursuit (2019)
Ordinary Love (2019)
The Commuter (2018)
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Run All Night (2015)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Love Thy Nature (2014)
Non-Stop (2014)
Road (2014)
Taken 3 (2014)
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys (2014)
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! (2013)
Third Person (2013)
Taken 2 (2012)
The Grey (2012)
Unknown (2011)
The A-Team (2010)
The Wildest Dream (2010)
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
The First Movie (2009)
Taken (2008)
The Other Man (2008)
Seraphim Falls (2006)
Kinsey (2004)
Patrick (2004)
Coral Reef Adventure (2003)
Journey into Amazing Caves (2001)
Gun Shy (2000)
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Haunting (1999)
Everest (1998)
Les Misérables (1998)
Michael Collins (1996)
Rob Roy (1995)
Ethan Frome (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Under Suspicion (1991)
Darkman (1990)
The Big Man (1990)
Sweet as You Are (1988)
Lamb (1985)
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough (2025)
Ireland (2022)
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis (2019)
A Christmas Star (2017)
Red Nose Day Actually (2017)
Operation Chromite (2016)
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014)
Khumba (2013)
Wrath of the Titans (2012)
After.Life (2009)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Before and After (1996)
Nell (1994)
Ruby Cairo (1992)
Next of Kin (1989)
Satisfaction (1988)
The Good Mother (1988)
Silence (2016)
The Nut Job (2014)
Chloe (2010)
Trumbo (2007)
Batman Begins (2005)
Shining Through (1992)
The Dead Pool (1988)
