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).
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Movies (43)
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
as Danny
2026
Cold Storage
as Robert Quinn
2026
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
as Narrator
2025
The Naked Gun
as Frank Drebin Jr.
2025
Ice Road: Vengeance
as Mike McCann
2025
Absolution
as Thug
2024
Wildcat
as Father Flynn
2024
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
as Narrator
2024
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
as Finbar Murphy
2023
Retribution
as Matt Turner
2023
Marlowe
as Philip Marlowe
2023
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
as Self
2022
Bonnie
as Self
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
2022
Memory
as Alex Lewis
2022
Ireland
2022
Blacklight
as Travis Block
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
as Self
2022
The Ice Road
as Mike McCann
2021
The Marksman
as Jim
2021
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)
2020
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
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
2019
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 White Crow
Executive Producer (Production)
2018
The Last Horsemen of New York
2018
The Commuter
as Michael MacCauley
2018
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
TV Shows (7)
Conan O'Brien Must Go
as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
2024
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
2022
The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
Benjamin Franklin
as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
2022
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
as Self - Narrator
2018
Derry Girls
as Chief Inspector Byers
2018