1952-06-07 Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Liam 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).
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Cold Storage | Robert Quinn | 2026-01-30 |
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4 Kids Walk Into a Bank | Danny | 2026-04-16 |
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Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Narrator | 2025-09-26 |
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The Naked Gun | Frank Drebin Jr. | 2025-07-30 |
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Ice Road: Vengeance | Mike McCann | 2025-06-27 |
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Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey | Narrator | 2024-04-22 |
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Absolution | Thug | 2024-10-31 |
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Wildcat | Father Flynn | 2024-05-03 |
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners | Finbar Murphy | 2023-10-06 |
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Marlowe | Philip Marlowe | 2023-02-15 |
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Retribution | Matt Turner | 2023-08-23 |
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Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman | Self | 2022-01-06 |
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Ireland | 2022-02-28 | |
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Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici | Self | 2022-11-19 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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Blacklight | Travis Block | 2022-02-10 |
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Memory | Alex Lewis | 2022-04-28 |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Self - Qui-Gon Jinn | 2022-09-07 |
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The Marksman | Jim | 2021-01-15 |
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The Ice Road | Mike McCann | 2021-06-24 |
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Made in Italy | Robert | 2020-07-09 |
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Honest Thief | Tom Dolan | 2020-09-03 |
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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2020-03-06 |
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WAMEGO: Addendum | 2020-12-15 | |
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Cold Pursuit | Nels Coxman | 2019-02-07 |
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Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - Actor | 2019-02-27 |
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Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis | Narrator | 2019-12-06 |
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 2019-12-18 |
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Ordinary Love | Tom | 2019-12-06 |
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Lost Lives | 2019-10-10 | |
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Men in Black: International | Agent High T | 2019-06-12 |
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Widows | Harry Rawlings | 2018-11-06 |
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An Oral History of: Schindler's List | Self (archive footage) | 2018-12-15 |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") | 2018-11-09 |
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The Commuter | Michael MacCauley | 2018-01-11 |
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The Last Horsemen of New York | 2018-05-11 | |
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Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Self | 2018-10-01 |
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Spielberg | Self - Segment "Schindler's List" | 2017-10-05 |
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And the Winner Isn't | Self | 2017-12-08 |
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Mark Felt | 2017-09-28 |
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Daddy's Home 2 | Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) | 2017-11-09 |
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Red Nose Day Actually | Daniel | 2017-03-24 |
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Karenina & I | Leo Tolstoy | 2017-02-24 |
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Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence | Self | 2017-03-28 |
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In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America | Narrator | 2017-09-24 |
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The Last Laugh | Self | 2016-04-18 |
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Silence | Ferreira | 2016-12-23 |
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A Monster Calls | The Monster (voice) | 2016-10-07 |
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인천상륙작전 | Douglas MacArthur | 2016-07-27 |
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The Huntsman: Winter's War | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 2016-04-06 |
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How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story | Narrator (voice) | 2016-09-25 |
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A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats | Self | 2016-04-03 |
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Love Thy Nature | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2016-04-22 |
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A Christmas Star | Narrator / Radio DJ | 2015-12-29 |
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Entourage | Liam Neeson | 2015-06-03 |
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Ted 2 | Customer | 2015-06-25 |
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Run All Night | Jimmy Conlon | 2015-03-11 |
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A Million Ways to Die in the West | Clinch | 2014-05-22 |
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Road | Narrator (voice) | 2014-06-11 |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones | Matthew Scudder | 2014-09-18 |
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Third Person | Michael | 2014-06-20 |
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Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys | Self - Narrator | 2014-04-23 |
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Taken 3 | Bryan Mills | 2014-12-16 |
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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet | Mustafa (voice) | 2014-09-06 |
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Non-Stop | Bill Marks | 2014-02-26 |
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The Lego Movie | Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) | 2014-02-06 |
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Manny | Narrator | 2014-12-31 |
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The Nut Job | Raccoon (voice) | 2014-01-17 |
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Khumba | Phango (voice) | 2013-07-18 |
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Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! | The Journalist | 2013-04-11 |
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The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-24 |
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Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Self | 2013-12-20 |
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Girl Rising | Narrator (voice) | 2013-03-07 |
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | History Channel Host (uncredited) | 2013-12-18 |
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The Secret Policeman's Ball | Self | 2012-03-04 |
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Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine | Narrator (voice) | 2012-04-27 |
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Battleship | Admiral Shane | 2012-04-11 |
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The Dark Knight Rises | Ra's Al Ghul | 2012-07-17 |
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Taken 2 | Bryan Mills | 2012-09-27 |
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The Grey | John Ottway | 2012-01-26 |
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Wrath of the Titans | Zeus | 2012-03-28 |
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A Child's Garden of Poetry | Self (voice) | 2011-04-28 |
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Unknown | Dr. Martin Harris | 2011-02-16 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Aslan (voice) | 2010-12-02 |
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The A-Team | Hannibal | 2010-06-09 |
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Clash of the Titans | Zeus | 2010-03-26 |
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The Next Three Days | Damon | 2010-11-18 |
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Chloe | David Stewart | 2010-02-25 |
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The Wildest Dream | Narrator | 2010-08-06 |
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Five Minutes of Heaven | Alistair Little | 2009-01-19 |
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After.Life | Eliot Deacon | 2009-11-07 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Aslan (voice) | 2008-05-15 |
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The Other Man | Peter | 2008-12-25 |
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Taken | Bryan Mills | 2008-02-18 |
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The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files | Self | 2008-10-28 |
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The Birth of Christ | Self - Narrator | 2007-11-06 |
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Trumbo | Self | 2007-09-10 |
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Seraphim Falls | Carver | 2007-01-26 |
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Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity | Narrator | 2006-02-10 |
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Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Self | 2006-03-27 |
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Home | 2006-10-26 | |
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Xavier | Narrator | 2006-09-29 |
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Sergeant York: Of God and Country | 2006-11-07 | |
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The Path to Redemption | Self | 2006-05-23 |
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Kingdom of Heaven | Godfrey de Ibelin | 2005-05-03 |
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George Lucas: Creating an Empire | Self | 2005-01-27 |
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Batman Begins | Ducard | 2005-06-10 |
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Breakfast on Pluto | Father Liam | 2005-11-16 |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Aslan (voice) | 2005-12-07 |
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Kinsey | Alfred Kinsey | 2004-09-04 |
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Patrick | Narrator | 2004-03-14 |
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Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? | Self (archive footage) | 2004-03-06 |
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Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Self | 2004-12-27 |
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The Story of Star Wars | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) | 2004-08-18 |
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Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York | Self | 2003-07-01 |
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Coral Reef Adventure | Narrator (voice) | 2003-02-14 |
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Love Actually | Daniel | 2003-09-07 |
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Martin Luther | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2003-07-09 |
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The Big Bang | Self | 2002-07-04 |
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 2002-05-15 |
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Gangs of New York | "Priest" Vallon | 2002-12-14 |
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K-19: The Widowmaker | Mikhail Polenin | 2002-07-19 |
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The Beginning: Making Episode I | Self | 2001-10-16 |
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The Mind's Big Bang | Self | 2001-09-27 |
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Journey into Amazing Caves | Narrator (voice) | 2001-03-01 |
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The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Narrator | 2000-02-09 |
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The Endurance - Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition | Narrator (voice) | 2000-09-02 |
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Inside The Space Station | Self - Narrator | 2000-12-10 |
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Gun Shy | Charles Mayough | 2000-02-04 |
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Qui-Gon Jinn | 1999-05-19 |
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The Haunting | Dr. David Marrow | 1999-07-23 |
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Les Misérables | Jean Valjean | 1998-05-01 |
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Everest | Narrator | 1998-03-06 |
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Michael Collins | Michael Collins | 1996-10-25 |
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Before and After | Ben Ryan | 1996-02-23 |
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A Leap of Faith | Narrator (voice) | 1996-11-29 |
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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome | Host | 1996-02-04 |
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Lumière et Compagnie | (segment "John Boorman") | 1995-12-20 |
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Out of Ireland | William Murphy (voice) | 1995-06-09 |
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Rob Roy | Robert Roy MacGregor | 1995-04-13 |
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Miss Sarajevo | Self | 1995-01-01 |
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Nell | Dr. Lovell | 1994-12-23 |
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Schindler's List | Oskar Schindler | 1993-12-15 |
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Ethan Frome | Ethan Frome | 1993-03-12 |
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Husbands and Wives | Michael Gates | 1992-09-18 |
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Leap of Faith | Sheriff Will Braverman | 1992-12-18 |
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Shining Through | Franze-Otto Dietrich | 1992-01-31 |
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Ruby Cairo | Fergus Lamb | 1992-12-12 |
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Revolver | Man | 1991-10-01 |
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Under Suspicion | Tony Aaron | 1991-09-27 |
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Darkman | Peyton Westlake / Darkman | 1990-08-24 |
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The Big Man | Danny Scoular | 1990-08-31 |
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Next of Kin | Briar Gates | 1989-10-20 |
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High Spirits | Martin Brogan | 1988-11-18 |
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The Dead Pool | Peter Swan | 1988-07-13 |
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The Good Mother | Leo Cutter | 1988-11-04 |
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Sweet As You Are | Martin Perry | 1988-01-24 |
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Satisfaction | Martin Falcon | 1988-02-12 |
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Sworn to Silence | Vincent Cauley | 1987-04-06 |
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A Prayer for the Dying | Liam Docherty | 1987-09-11 |
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Suspect | Carl Wayne Anderson | 1987-10-23 |
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The Mission | Father John Fielding | 1986-09-06 |
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The Delta Force | Delta Force Member (uncredited) | 1986-02-14 |
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Lamb | Michael Lamb | 1986-10-10 |
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Duet for One | Totter | 1986-12-25 |
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The Innocent | John Carns | 1985-03-18 |
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Arthur the King | Grak | 1985-04-26 |
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An Audience with Mel Brooks | Self (uncredited) | 1984-02-04 |
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The Bounty | Charles Churchill | 1984-05-04 |
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Across the Water | Martin | 1983-06-10 |
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Krull | Kegan | 1983-07-29 |
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Nailed | Young Catholic | 1981-06-02 |
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Excalibur | Gawain | 1981-04-10 |
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My Dear Palestrina | Blacksmith | 1980-12-05 |
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Christiana | Greatheart | 1979-06-10 |
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The Last Window Cleaner | Self | 1979-02-13 |
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Dinner at the Sporting Club | Dermot | 1978-11-07 |
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Pilgrim's Progress | Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ | 1978-04-05 |
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Narco Sub | ||
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames | ||
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The Trainer | John Moore | |
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Hotel Tehran | Larry | |
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Cold Pursuit 2 | Nels Coxman | |
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Mongoose | Ryan "Fang" Flanagan | |
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The Riker's Ghost |