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Liam Neeson

Born 7 June 1952 · 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).

Films and shows

  1. 2026The Mongoose1h 39mRyan "Fang" Flanagan
  2. 2026The Fix2h 22mLarry
  3. 2026Cold Storage1h 39mRobert Quinn
  4. 2026The Lost Children of Tuam1h 24mProducer
  5. 2025Ice Road: Vengeance1h 53mMike McCann
  6. 2025The Naked Gun1h 25mFrank Drebin Jr.
  7. 2025Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough1h 28mNarrator
  8. 2024Absolution1h 52mThug
  9. 2024Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey1h 31mNarrator
  10. 2024Wildcat1h 48mFather Flynn
  11. 2023Retribution1h 31mMatt Turner
  12. 2023In the Land of Saints and Sinners1h 46mFinbar Murphy
  13. 2023Marlowe1h 49mPhilip Marlowe
  14. 2022Blacklight1h 44mTravis Block
  15. 2022Memory1h 54mAlex Lewis
  16. 2022Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi1 seasonQui-Gon Jinn
  17. 2022Ireland40m
  18. 2022Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici1h 15mSelf
  19. 2022Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman58mSelf
  20. 2022Bonnie1h 23mSelf
  21. 2022Benjamin Franklin1 seasonAlexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
  22. 2022Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return1hSelf - Qui-Gon Jinn
  23. 2021The Marksman1h 48mJim
  24. 2021The Ice Road1h 48mMike McCann
  25. 2021The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine1h 31mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  26. 2020Made in Italy1h 34mRobert
  27. 2020WAMEGO: Addendum46m
  28. 2020Honest Thief1h 39mTom Dolan
  29. 2019Cold Pursuit1h 59mNels Coxman
  30. 2019Ordinary Love1h 32mTom
  31. 2019Lost Lives1h 33mSelf (voice)
  32. 2019Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis50mNarrator
  33. 2019Men in Black: International1h 55mAgent High T
  34. 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast1h 37mSelf - Actor
  35. 2018Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History1 seasonSelf - Narrator
  36. 2018The Commuter1h 44mMichael MacCauley
  37. 2018The Last Horsemen of New York
  38. 2018Schindler's List: 25 Years Later40mSelf
  39. 2018Widows2h 9mHarry Rawlings
  40. 2018An Oral History of: Schindler's List57mSelf (archive footage)
  41. 2018The White Crow2h 7mExecutive Producer
  42. 2017Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House1h 43mMark Felt
  43. 2017Red Nose Day Actually15mDaniel
  44. 2017Karenina & I1h 25mLeo Tolstoy
  45. 2017Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence25mSelf
  46. 2017In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America1h 30mNarrator
  47. 2016How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story1h 30mNarrator (voice)
  48. 2016Love Thy Nature1h 16mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  49. 2016Operation Chromite1h 51mDouglas MacArthur
  50. 2016A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats1h 40mSelf
  51. 2016Silence2h 41mFerreira
  52. 201619161 seasonNarrator
  53. 2016A Monster Calls1h 48mThe Monster (voice)
  54. 2015Run All Night1h 54mJimmy Conlon
  55. 2015A Christmas Star1h 22mNarrator / Radio DJ
  56. 2015Ted 21h 55mCustomer
  57. 2014Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys53mSelf - Narrator
  58. 2014Road1h 42mNarrator (voice)
  59. 2014A Walk Among the Tombstones1h 54mMatthew Scudder
  60. 2014Non-Stop1h 47mBill Marks
  61. 2014Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet1h 25mMustafa (voice)
  62. 2014Taken 31h 49mBryan Mills
  63. 2014Third Person2h 17mMichael
  64. 2014The Nut Job1h 25mRaccoon (voice)
  65. 2014A Million Ways to Die in the West1h 56mClinch
  66. 2014Manny1h 27mNarrator
  67. 2014The Lego Movie1h 40mBad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
  68. 2013Girl Rising1h 41mNarrator (voice)
  69. 2013Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!1h 59mThe Journalist
  70. 2013Khumba1h 25mPhango (voice)
  71. 2013Excalibur: Behind the Movie52mSelf
  72. 2012Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine24mNarrator (voice)
  73. 2012The Grey1h 57mJohn Ottway
  74. 2012Taken 21h 31mBryan Mills
  75. 2012Wrath of the Titans1h 39mZeus
  76. 2012Battleship2h 11mAdmiral Shane
  77. 2011Unknown1h 53mDr. Martin Harris
  78. 2011A Child's Garden of Poetry30mSelf (voice)
  79. 2010The A-Team1h 57mHannibal
  80. 2010Clash of the Titans1h 46mZeus
  81. 2010Chloe1h 36mDavid Stewart
  82. 2010The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader1h 53mAslan (voice)
  83. 2010The Wildest Dream1h 34mNarrator
  84. 2010The Next Three Days2h 13mDamon
  85. 2009Five Minutes of Heaven1h 29mAlistair Little
  86. 2009After.Life1h 43mEliot Deacon
  87. 2008Taken1h 34mBryan Mills
  88. 2008The Other Man1h 30mPeter
  89. 2008The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files39mSelf
  90. 2008The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian2h 30mAslan (voice)
  91. 2008Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of The Dark Knight45mDucard (archive footage)
  92. 2007The Birth of Christ1h 25mSelf - Narrator
  93. 2007Seraphim Falls1h 55mCarver
  94. 2007Trumbo1h 36mSelf
  95. 2006Sergeant York: Of God and Country39m
  96. 2006Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film1h 56mSelf
  97. 2006The Path to Redemption2h 23mSelf
  98. 2006Home1h 10mNarrator
  99. 2006Xavier56mNarrator
  100. 2006Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity23mNarrator
  101. 2005Batman Begins2h 20mDucard
  102. 2005Breakfast on Pluto2h 8mFather Liam
  103. 2005The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe2h 23mAslan (voice)
  104. 2005Kingdom of Heaven2h 24mGodfrey de Ibelin
  105. 2004Kinsey1h 58mAlfred Kinsey
  106. 2004Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde1h 20mSelf
  107. 2004Patrick1hNarrator
  108. 2004The Story of Star Wars1hQui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
  109. 2003Coral Reef Adventure46mNarrator (voice)
  110. 2003Martin Luther1h 55mSelf - Narrator (voice)
  111. 2003Martin Luther1 seasonSelf - Narrator (voice)
  112. 2003Love Actually2h 15mDaniel
  113. 2003Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York35mSelf
  114. 2002K-19: The Widowmaker2h 18mMikhail Polenin
  115. 2002The Big Bang4mSelf
  116. 2002George Lucas: Creating an Empire1h 29mSelf
  117. 2002The Maze1h 3mNarrator
  118. 2002Gangs of New York2h 48m'Priest' Vallon
  119. 2002Liberty's Kids1 seasonJohn Paul Jones (voice)
  120. 2001Journey into Amazing Caves39mNarrator (voice)
  121. 2001The Mind's Big Bang56mSelf
  122. 2001The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars Episode I1h 6mSelf
  123. 2001Evolution1 seasonNarrator
  124. 2000The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization1 seasonSelf - Narrator
  125. 2000The Endurance1h 37mNarrator (voice)
  126. 2000Inside The Space Station50mSelf - Narrator
  127. 2000Gun Shy1h 41mCharles Mayough
  128. 2000The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization2h 45mNarrator
  129. 1999The Haunting1h 53mDr. David Marrow
  130. 1999Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace2h 16mQui-Gon Jinn
  131. 1998Les Misérables2h 14mJean Valjean
  132. 1998Everest44mNarrator
  133. 1996Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome46mHost
  134. 1996Michael Collins2h 12mMichael Collins
  135. 1996A Leap of Faith1h 26mNarrator (voice)
  136. 1996Before and After1h 48mBen Ryan
  137. 1995Rob Roy2h 19mRobert Roy MacGregor
  138. 1995Out of Ireland1h 52mWilliam Murphy (voice)
  139. 1995Miss Sarajevo33mSelf
  140. 1995Lumière & Company1h 28m(segment "John Boorman")
  141. 1994Nell1h 52mDr. Lovell
  142. 1993Ethan Frome1h 39mEthan Frome
  143. 1993Schindler's List3h 15mOskar Schindler
  144. 1992Ruby Cairo1h 31mFergus Lamb
  145. 1992Shining Through2h 12mFranze-Otto Dietrich
  146. 1992Leap of Faith1h 48mSheriff Will Braverman
  147. 1992Husbands and Wives1h 48mMichael Gates
  148. 1991Revolver10mMan
  149. 1991Under Suspicion1h 39mTony Aaron
  150. 1990The Big Man1h 56mDanny Scoular
  151. 1990Darkman1h 35mPeyton Westlake / Darkman
  152. 1989Next of Kin1h 48mBriar Gates
  153. 1988Sweet as You Are1h 9mMartin Perry
  154. 1988The Good Mother1h 44mLeo Cutter
  155. 1988Satisfaction1h 32mMartin Falcon
  156. 1988The Dead Pool1h 31mPeter Swan
  157. 1988High Spirits1h 39mMartin Brogan
  158. 1987Suspect2h 1mCarl Wayne Anderson
  159. 1987Hold the Dream1 seasonBlackie O'Neill
  160. 1987A Prayer for the Dying1h 47mLiam Docherty
  161. 1987Sworn to Silence1h 34mVincent Cauley
  162. 1986Lamb1h 50mMichael Lamb
  163. 1986The Mission2h 5mFather John Fielding
  164. 1986If Tomorrow Comes1 seasonAndré Trignant
  165. 1986Duet for One1h 47mTotter
  166. 1985The Innocent1h 41mJohn Carns
  167. 1985A Woman of Substance1 seasonBlackie O'Neill
  168. 1985Arthur the King1h 40mGrak
  169. 1984The Bounty2h 12mCharles Churchill
  170. 1984An Audience with Mel Brooks55mSelf (uncredited)
  171. 1983Across the Water47mMartin
  172. 1983Krull2h 1mKegan
  173. 1981Nailed55mYoung Catholic
  174. 1981Excalibur2h 21mGawain
  175. 1980My Dear PalestrinaBlacksmith
  176. 1979Christiana1h 20mGreatheart
  177. 1979The Last Window Cleaner1h 10mSelf
  178. 1978Pilgrim's Progress1h 12mEvangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
  179. 1978Dinner at the Sporting Club1h 3mDermot
  180. The Riker's Ghost
  181. Narco Sub
  182. Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption ExposedNarrator (voice)
  183. 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank1h 48mDanny
  184. Cold Pursuit 2Nels Coxman
  185. The TrainerJohn Moore
  186. The Splendid Thing
  187. Charlie Johnson in the Flames
  188. The Nut Job 3Raccoon (voice)
  189. Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea8hNarrator