About
Liam Neeson
Overview
Liam Neeson 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).
Known for
Acting |
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| 2026 | 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank | Actor | Danny | N/A N/A |
| 2026 | Cold Storage | Actor | Robert Quinn | N/A N/A |
| 2025 | Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2025 | The Naked Gun | Actor | Frank Drebin Jr. | 62 Fair |
| 2025 | Ice Road: Vengeance | Actor | Mike McCann | 61 Fair |
| 2024 | Absolution | Actor | Thug | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Wildcat | Actor | Father Flynn | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2023 | In the Land of Saints and Sinners | Actor | Finbar Murphy | 61 Fair |
| 2023 | Retribution | Actor | Matt Turner | 63 Fair |
| 2023 | Marlowe | Actor | Philip Marlowe | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust | Actor | 71 Good |
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| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return | Actor | Self - Qui-Gon Jinn | 64 Fair |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi : A Star Wars Story | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Memory | Actor | Alex Lewis | 65 Fair |
| 2022 | Benjamin Franklin | Actor | Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2022 | Ireland | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 2022 | Blacklight | Actor | Travis Block | 60 Fair |
| 2022 | Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | The Ice Road | Actor | Mike | 65 Fair |
| 2021 | The Marksman | Actor | Jim | 65 Fair |
| 2020 | WAMEGO: Addendum | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2020 | Honest Thief | Actor | Tom Dolan | 63 Fair |
| 2020 | Made in Italy | Actor | Robert | 59 Average |
| 2020 | The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 62 Fair |
| 2019 | Ordinary Love | Actor | Tom | 60 Fair |
| 2019 | Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Lost Lives | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2019 | Men in Black: International | Actor | Agent High T | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Actor | Self - Actor | 58 Average |
| 2019 | Cold Pursuit | Actor | Nels Coxman | 58 Average |
| 2018 | Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Actor | Self | 60 Fair |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs | Actor | Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket") | 70 Good |
| 2018 | Widows | Actor | Harry Rawlings | 63 Fair |
| 2018 | Schindler's List: 25 Years Later | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2018 | The Last Horsemen of New York | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2018 | Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History | Actor | Self - Narrator | 68 Fair |
| 2018 | The Commuter | Actor | Michael MacCauley | 63 Fair |
| 2017 | And the Winner Isn't | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Daddy's Home 2 | Actor | Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 2017 | Spielberg | Actor | Self - Segment "Schindler's List" | 65 Fair |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Actor | Mark Felt | 60 Fair |
| 2017 | In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2017 | Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Actor | Daniel | 62 Fair |
| 2017 | Karenina & I | Actor | Leo Tolstoy | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Silence | Actor | Ferreira | 69 Fair |
| 2016 | A Monster Calls | Actor | The Monster (voice) | 71 Good |
| 2016 | How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Operation Chromite | Actor | Douglas MacArthur | 58 Average |
| 2016 | Love Thy Nature | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2016 | The Last Laugh | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's War | Actor | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 62 Fair |
| 2016 | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2016 | 1916 | Actor | Narrator | 68 Fair |
| 2015 | A Christmas Star | Actor | Narrator / Radio DJ | 58 Average |
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Actor | Customer | 62 Fair |
| 2015 | Entourage | Actor | Liam Neeson | 61 Fair |
| 2015 | Run All Night | Actor | Jimmy Conlon | 63 Fair |
| 2014 | Manny | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Taken 3 | Actor | Bryan Mills | 62 Fair |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the Tombstones | Actor | Matthew Scudder | 62 Fair |
| 2014 | The Prophet | Actor | Mustafa (voice) | 61 Fair |
| 2014 | Third Person | Actor | Michael | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Road | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Actor | Clinch | 60 Fair |
| 2014 | Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys | Actor | Self - Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Non-Stop | Actor | Bill Marks | 67 Fair |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Actor | Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) | 73 Good |
| 2014 | The Nut Job | Actor | Raccoon (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Excalibur: Behind the Movie | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2013 | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues | Actor | History Channel Host (uncredited) | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Khumba | Actor | Phango (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! | Actor | The Journalist | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Girl Rising | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Taken 2 | Actor | Bryan Mills | 63 Fair |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Actor | Ra's Al Ghul | 77 Good |
| 2012 | Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | Battleship | Actor | Admiral Shane | 58 Average |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans | Actor | Zeus | 57 Average |
| 2012 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2012 | The Grey | Actor | John Ottway | 64 Fair |
| 2011 | A Child's Garden of Poetry | Actor | Self (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2011 | Unknown | Actor | Dr. Martin Harris | 65 Fair |
| 2010 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Actor | Aslan (voice) | 63 Fair |
| 2010 | The Next Three Days | Actor | Damon | 69 Fair |
| 2010 | The Wildest Dream | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2010 | The A-Team | Actor | Hannibal | 63 Fair |
| 2010 | Clash of the Titans | Actor | Zeus | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Chloe | Actor | David Stewart | 60 Fair |
| 2009 | After.Life | Actor | Eliot Deacon | 61 Fair |
| 2009 | Five Minutes of Heaven | Actor | Alistair Little | 59 Average |
| 2008 | The Other Man | Actor | Peter | 57 Average |
| 2008 | The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Actor | Aslan (voice) | 65 Fair |
| 2008 | Taken | Actor | Bryan Mills | 73 Good |
| 2007 | The Birth of Christ | Actor | Self - Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2007 | Trumbo | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2007 | Seraphim Falls | Actor | Carver | 61 Fair |
| 2006 | Sergeant York: Of God and Country | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2006 | Home | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2006 | Xavier | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | The Path to Redemption | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Actor | Aslan (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2005 | Breakfast on Pluto | Actor | Father Liam | 64 Fair |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Actor | Ducard | 76 Good |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Actor | Godfrey de Ibelin | 68 Fair |
| 2005 | George Lucas: Creating an Empire | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Actor | Alfred Kinsey | 62 Fair |
| 2004 | The Story of Star Wars | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) | 59 Average |
| 2004 | Star Wars: Storm in a teacup | Actor | Pogon | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Patrick | Actor | Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2004 | Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? | Actor | Self (archive footage) | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Love Actually | Actor | Daniel | 70 Good |
| 2003 | Martin Luther | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2003 | Martin Luther | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2003 | Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2003 | Coral Reef Adventure | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Actor | "Priest" Vallon | 72 Good |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids | Actor | John Paul Jones (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Actor | Mikhail Polenin | 63 Fair |
| 2002 | The Big Bang | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2002 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 65 Fair |
| 2001 | The Beginning: Making Episode I | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2001 | The Mind's Big Bang | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Journey into Amazing Caves | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | Inside The Space Station | Actor | Self - Narrator | 58 Average |
| 2000 | The Endurance | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization | Actor | Self - Narrator | 69 Fair |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Actor | Charles Mayough | 57 Average |
| 1999 | The Haunting | Actor | Dr. David Marrow | 55 Average |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn | 65 Fair |
| 1998 | Les Misérables | Actor | Jean Valjean | 66 Fair |
| 1998 | Everest | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 1996 | A Leap of Faith | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 1996 | Michael Collins | Actor | Michael Collins | 63 Fair |
| 1996 | Before and After | Actor | Ben Ryan | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome | Actor | Host | N/A N/A |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Actor | (segment "John Boorman") | 59 Average |
| 1995 | Out of Ireland | Actor | William Murphy (voice) | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Actor | Robert Roy MacGregor | 63 Fair |
| 1995 | Miss Sarajevo | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1994 | Nell | Actor | Dr. Lovell | 62 Fair |
| 1993 | Schindler's List | Actor | Oskar Schindler | 85 Very good |
| 1993 | Ethan Frome | Actor | Ethan Frome | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Leap of Faith | Actor | Sheriff Will Braverman | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Ruby Cairo | Actor | Fergus Lamb | 57 Average |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Actor | Michael Gates | 64 Fair |
| 1992 | Shining Through | Actor | Franze-Otto Dietrich | 60 Fair |
| 1991 | Revolver | Actor | Man | 59 Average |
| 1991 | Under Suspicion | Actor | Tony Aaron | 58 Average |
| 1990 | The Big Man | Actor | Danny Scoular | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Darkman | Actor | Peyton Westlake / Darkman | 62 Fair |
| 1989 | Next of Kin | Actor | Briar Gates | 58 Average |
| 1988 | High Spirits | Actor | Martin Brogan | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Good Mother | Actor | Leo Cutter | 58 Average |
| 1988 | The Dead Pool | Actor | Peter Swan | 61 Fair |
| 1988 | Satisfaction | Actor | Martin Falcon | 57 Average |
| 1988 | Sweet As You Are | Actor | Martin Perry | 59 Average |
| 1987 | Suspect | Actor | Carl Wayne Anderson | 60 Fair |
| 1987 | A Prayer for the Dying | Actor | Liam Docherty | 58 Average |
| 1987 | Sworn to Silence | Actor | Vincent Cauley | 59 Average |
| 1986 | Duet for One | Actor | Totter | 58 Average |
| 1986 | Lamb | Actor | Michael Lamb | 58 Average |
| 1986 | The Mission | Actor | Father John Fielding | 70 Good |
| 1986 | If Tomorrow Comes | Actor | André Trignant | 70 Good |
| 1986 | The Delta Force | Actor | Delta Force Member (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1985 | Arthur the King | Actor | Grak | 58 Average |
| 1985 | The Innocent | Actor | John Carns | 59 Average |
| 1985 | A Woman of Substance | Actor | Blackie O'Neill | 69 Fair |
| 1984 | The Bounty | Actor | Charles Churchill | 63 Fair |
| 1984 | An Audience with Mel Brooks | Actor | Self (uncredited) | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Krull | Actor | Kegan | 59 Average |
| 1983 | Across the Water | Actor | Martin | N/A N/A |
| 1981 | Nailed | Actor | Young Catholic | N/A N/A |
| 1981 | Excalibur | Actor | Gawain | 66 Fair |
| 1980 | My Dear Palestrina | Actor | Blacksmith | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Christiana | Actor | 58 Average |
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| 1979 | The Last Window Cleaner | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Dinner at the Sporting Club | Actor | Dermot | 58 Average |
| 1978 | Pilgrim's Progress | Actor | Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ | 59 Average |
| Mongoose | Actor | Ryan "Fang" Flanagan | N/A N/A |
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| The Trainer | Actor | John Moore | N/A N/A |
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| Narco Sub | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Charlie Johnson in the Flames | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Hotel Tehran | Actor | Larry | N/A N/A |
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| Cold Pursuit 2 | Actor | Nels Coxman | N/A N/A |
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| Kenobi: Trials of the Master | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn | N/A N/A |
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| The Riker's Ghost | Actor | N/A N/A |
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Production |
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| 2018 | The White Crow | Production | Executive Producer | 61 Fair |