Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
247
Gender
Male
Birthday
June 7, 1952 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Also Known As
Lijam Nison
William John Neeson
William John Neeson OBE
Liam Neeson
Biography
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).
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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The Riker's Ghost
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Narco Sub
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Hotel Tehran
as
Larry
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Mongoose
as
Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
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The Trainer
as
John Moore
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames
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Cold Pursuit 2
as
Nels Coxman
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Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed
as
Narrator (voice)
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Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
as
Narrator
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The Nut Job 3
as
Raccoon (voice)
2026
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
as
Danny
2026
Cold Storage
as
Robert Quinn
2025
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as
Narrator
2025
The Naked Gun
as
Frank Drebin Jr.
2025
Ice Road: Vengeance
as
Mike McCann
2024
Absolution
as
Thug
2024
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
as
Narrator
2024
Conan O'Brien Must Go
as
Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episode
2023
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as
Finbar Murphy
2023
Wildcat
as
Father Flynn
2023
Retribution
as
Matt Turner
2023
Marlowe
as
Philip Marlowe
2022
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
as
Self
2022
Bonnie
as
Self
2022
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
1 episode
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
3 episode
s
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as
Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
1 episode
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)
1 episode
2022
Memory
as
Alex Lewis
2022
Benjamin Franklin
as
Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
2 episode
s
2022
Ireland
2022
Blacklight
as
Travis Block
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
as
Self
2021
The Ice Road
as
Mike McCann
2021
The Marksman
as
Jim
2020
WAMEGO: Addendum
2020
Honest Thief
as
Tom Dolan
2020
Made in Italy
as
Robert
2020
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2019
Ordinary Love
as
Tom
2019
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
as
Narrator
2019
Lost Lives
as
Self (voice)
2019
Men in Black: International
as
Agent High T
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as
Self - Actor
2019
Cold Pursuit
as
Nels Coxman
2018
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
as
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
as
Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
2018
Widows
as
Harry Rawlings
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
as
Self
2018
The Last Horsemen of New York
2018
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
as
Self - Narrator
6 episode
s
2018
The Commuter
as
Michael MacCauley
2018
Derry Girls
as
Chief Inspector Byers
2 episode
s
2017
And the Winner Isn't
as
Self
2017
Daddy's Home 2
as
Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
2017
Spielberg
as
Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
2017
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
as
Mark Felt
2017
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
as
Narrator
2017
The Orville
as
Jahavus Dorahl
1 episode
2017
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
as
Self
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
as
Daniel
2017
Karenina & I
as
Leo Tolstoy
2016
Silence
as
Ferreira
2016
Dream Corp LLC
as
Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
1 episode
2016
A Monster Calls
as
The Monster (voice)
2016
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
as
Narrator (voice)
2016
Atlanta
as
Liam Neeson
1 episode
2016
Operation Chromite
as
Douglas MacArthur
2016
Love Thy Nature
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
The Last Laugh
as
Self
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
as
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
as
Self
2016
1916
as
Narrator
3 episode
s
2015
A Christmas Star
as
Narrator / Radio DJ
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as
Self
3 episode
s
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as
Mr. Toffee
1 episode
2015
Nature Is Speaking
as
Ice
1 episode
2015
Ted 2
as
Customer
2015
Entourage
as
Liam Neeson
2015
Run All Night
as
Jimmy Conlon
2014
Manny
as
Narrator
2014
Taken 3
as
Bryan Mills
2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
as
Matthew Scudder
2014
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
as
Mustafa (voice)
2014
Third Person
as
Michael
2014
Road
as
Narrator (voice)
2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
as
Clinch
2014
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
as
Self - Narrator
2014
Non-Stop
as
Bill Marks
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as
Self - Guest
4 episode
s
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as
Self - Guest
8 episode
s
2014
The Lego Movie
as
Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
2014
The Nut Job
as
Raccoon (voice)
2013
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
as
Self
2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as
History Channel Host (uncredited)
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
as
Self (archive footage)
2013
Khumba
as
Phango (voice)
2013
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
as
The Journalist
2013
Girl Rising
as
Narrator (voice)
2012
Taken 2
as
Bryan Mills
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
as
Ra's Al Ghul
2012
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
as
Narrator (voice)
2012
Battleship
as
Admiral Shane
2012
Wrath of the Titans
as
Zeus
2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
as
Self
2012
The Grey
as
John Ottway
2011
Life's Too Short
as
Liam Neeson
1 episode
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
as
Self
1 episode
2011
A Child's Garden of Poetry
as
Self (voice)
2011
Unknown
as
Dr. Martin Harris
2010
Buccaneers & Bones
7 episode
s
2010
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
as
Aslan (voice)
2010
The Next Three Days
as
Damon
2010
Conan
as
Self
1 episode
2010
The Wildest Dream
as
Narrator
2010
The A-Team
as
Hannibal
2010
Clash of the Titans
as
Zeus
2010
Chloe
as
David Stewart
2009
After.Life
as
Eliot Deacon
2009
Live from Studio Five
as
Self
2 episode
s
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as
Self - Guest
9 episode
s
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
as
Alistair Little
2008
The Other Man
as
Peter
2008
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
as
Self
2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
3 episode
s
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
as
Aslan (voice)
2008
Taken
as
Bryan Mills
2007
The Birth of Christ
as
Self - Narrator
2007
Trumbo
as
Self
2007
The Graham Norton Show
as
Self
5 episode
s
2007
Seraphim Falls
as
Carver
2006
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
2006
Home
2006
Xavier
as
Narrator
2006
El hormiguero
as
Self
1 episode
2006
The One Show
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
2006
The Path to Redemption
as
Self
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
as
Self
2006
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
as
Narrator
2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
as
Aslan (voice)
2005
Breakfast on Pluto
as
Father Liam
2005
Batman Begins
as
Ducard
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
as
Godfrey de Ibelin
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
as
Self
2004
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
as
Self
2004
Kinsey
as
Alfred Kinsey
2004
The Story of Star Wars
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
2004
Patrick
as
Narrator
2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
as
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as
Self
2 episode
s
2003
Love Actually
as
Daniel
2003
Martin Luther
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2003
Martin Luther
as
Self - Narrator (voice)
2 episode
s
2003
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
as
Self
2003
Coral Reef Adventure
as
Narrator (voice)
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as
Self - Guest
2 episode
s
2002
Gangs of New York
as
'Priest' Vallon
2002
Liberty's Kids
as
John Paul Jones (voice)
40 episode
s
2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
as
Mikhail Polenin
2002
The Big Bang
as
Self
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as
Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2002
The Maze
as
Narrator
2001
The Beginning: Making Episode I
as
Self
2001
The Mind's Big Bang
as
Self
2001
Journey into Amazing Caves
as
Narrator (voice)
2000
Inside The Space Station
as
Self - Narrator
2000
The Endurance
as
Narrator (voice)
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as
Narrator
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
as
Self - Narrator
3 episode
s
2000
Gun Shy
as
Charles Mayough
1999
The Haunting
as
Dr. David Marrow
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
as
Qui-Gon Jinn
1999
Family Guy
as
Liam Neeson (voice)
2 episode
s
1998
Les Misérables
as
Jean Valjean
1998
Everest
as
Narrator
1998
Parkinson
as
Self
1 episode
1997
The View
as
Self
2 episode
s
1996
A Leap of Faith
as
Narrator (voice)
1996
Michael Collins
as
Michael Collins
1996
The Daily Show
as
Self
1 episode
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as
Self - Guest
1 episode
1996
Before and After
as
Ben Ryan
1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
as
Host
1995
Lumière & Company
as
(segment "John Boorman")
1995
Out of Ireland
as
William Murphy (voice)
1995
Rob Roy
as
Robert Roy MacGregor
1995
Miss Sarajevo
as
Self
1994
Nell
as
Dr. Lovell
1993
Schindler's List
as
Oskar Schindler
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as
Self - Guest
2 episode
s
1993
Ethan Frome
as
Ethan Frome
1992
Leap of Faith
as
Sheriff Will Braverman
1992
Ruby Cairo
as
Fergus Lamb
1992
Husbands and Wives
as
Michael Gates
1992
Shining Through
as
Franze-Otto Dietrich
1991
Revolver
as
Man
1991
Under Suspicion
as
Tony Aaron
1990
The Big Man
as
Danny Scoular
1990
Darkman
as
Peyton Westlake / Darkman
1989
The Simpsons
as
Father Sean (voice)
1 episode
1989
Next of Kin
as
Briar Gates
1988
High Spirits
as
Martin Brogan
1988
The Good Mother
as
Leo Cutter
1988
This Morning
as
Self
1 episode
1988
The Dead Pool
as
Peter Swan
1988
Satisfaction
as
Martin Falcon
1988
Sweet as You Are
as
Martin Perry
1987
Suspect
as
Carl Wayne Anderson
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
as
Liam Docherty
1987
Hold the Dream
as
Blackie O'Neill
4 episode
s
1987
Sworn to Silence
as
Vincent Cauley
1986
Duet for One
as
Totter
1986
Lamb
as
Michael Lamb
1986
The Mission
as
Father John Fielding
1986
If Tomorrow Comes
as
André Trignant
3 episode
s
1986
The Delta Force
as
Delta Force Member (uncredited)
1985
Arthur the King
as
Grak
1985
The Innocent
as
John Carns
1985
A Woman of Substance
as
Blackie O'Neill
3 episode
s
1984
Ellis Island
as
Kevin Murray
2 episode
s
1984
Miami Vice
as
Sean Carroon
1 episode
1984
The Bounty
as
Charles Churchill
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
as
Self (uncredited)
1984
Goldene Kamera
as
Self
1 episode
1983
Krull
as
Kegan
1983
Across the Water
as
Martin
1982
Nature
as
Narrator (voice)
1 episode
1981
Nailed
as
Young Catholic
1981
Excalibur
as
Gawain
1980
My Dear Palestrina
as
Blacksmith
1979
Christiana
as
Greatheart
1979
The Last Window Cleaner
as
Self
1978
Dinner at the Sporting Club
as
Dermot
1978
Pilgrim's Progress
as
Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
1978
An Audience with...
as
Self
1 episode
1975
Saturday Night Live
as
Self - Host
1 episode
1975
Saturday Night Live
as
Self - Cameo (uncredited)
2 episode
s
1974
Playhouse
as
Blacksmith
1 episode
1970
Play for Today
as
Him
1 episode
1968
60 Minutes
as
Self
1 episode
1956
Tony Awards
as
Self - Nominee
1 episode
1956
Tony Awards
as
Self - Presenter
1 episode
1953
The Oscars
as
Self
3 episode
s
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as
Self - Nominee
3 episode
s
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as
Self - Presenter
1 episode
