About
Liam Neeson
Overview
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.
An Irish actor who 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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Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | Cold Storage | Actor | Robert Quinn | N/A N/A |
| 2025 | Untitled Naked Gun Reboot | Actor | Frank Drebin Jr. | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Absolution | Actor | Thug | 58 Average |
| 2024 | Wildcat | Actor | Father Flynn | 58 Average |
| 2023 | In the Land of Saints and Sinners | Actor | Finbar Murphy | 61 Fair |
| 2023 | Retribution | Actor | Matt Turner | 64 Fair |
| 2023 | Marlowe | Actor | Philip Marlowe | 58 Average |
| 2022 | Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2022 | Bonnie | Actor | Self | 59 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 | Memory | Actor | Alex Lewis | 65 Fair |
| 2022 | Benjamin Franklin | Actor | Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2022 | Ireland | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2022 | Blacklight | Actor | Travis Block | 61 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) | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker | Actor | Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) | 62 Fair |
| 2019 | Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2019 | Ordinary Love | Actor | Tom | 61 Fair |
| 2019 | Lost Lives | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2019 | Men in Black: International | Actor | Agent High T | 59 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") | 69 Fair |
| 2018 | Widows | Actor | Harry Rawlings | 63 Fair |
| 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 | 69 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 | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day Actually | Actor | Daniel | 63 Fair |
| 2017 | Karenina & I | Actor | Leo Tolstoy | 59 Average |
| 2016 | Silence | Actor | Ferreira | 69 Fair |
| 2016 | A Monster Calls | Actor | The Monster (voice) | 70 Good |
| 2016 | How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2016 | For the Love of Spock | Actor | Leo Cutter (archive footage) | 63 Fair |
| 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 | 60 Fair |
| 2015 | Coldplay's Game of Thrones: The Musical | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 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 | 59 Average |
| 2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the West | Actor | Clinch | 59 Average |
| 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 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! | Actor | The Journalist | 59 Average |
| 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 | 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 | 59 Average |
| 2012 | The Grey | Actor | John Ottway | 65 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 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 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 2006 | Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity | Actor | Narrator | 59 Average |
| 2006 | The Path to Redemption | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 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 | N/A N/A |
| 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) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York | Actor | "Priest" Vallon | 72 Good |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids | Actor | John Paul Jones | 70 Good |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Actor | Mikhail Polenin | 62 Fair |
| 2002 | The Big Bang | Actor | Self | N/A N/A |
| 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 | 59 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 | 56 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 |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Actor | (segment "John Boorman") | 59 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 | 58 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 | 58 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 | 59 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) | 58 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 | 65 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 | Liam Neeson | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Dinner at the Sporting Club | Actor | Dermot | 59 Average |
| 1978 | Pilgrim's Progress | Actor | Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ | 60 Fair |
| The Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky | Actor | Mike McCann | N/A N/A |
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| Run All Night 2 | Actor | Jimmy Conlon | N/A N/A |
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| Cold Pursuit 2 | Actor | Nels Coxman | N/A N/A |
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| 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank | Actor | Danny | 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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| The Riker's Ghost | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| Deception | Actor | Fergus Lamb | N/A N/A |
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| Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
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| Mongoose | Actor | Ryan "Fang" Flanagan | 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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Production |
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| 2018 | The White Crow | Production | Executive Producer | 61 Fair |