Liam Neeson

Known for ActingBorn 1952-06-07 (age 74)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).Read more

Movies & web series

Xavier

Nailed

A Leap of Faith

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Nature Is Speaking

Home

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Schindler's List

Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys

Derry Girls

Conan O'Brien Must Go

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

Atlanta

The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files

The Path to Redemption

Benjamin Franklin

The Dark Knight Rises

The Simpsons

The Orville

Batman Begins

Nature

Liberty's Kids

Spielberg

The Secret Policeman's Ball

The Lego Movie

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Taken

A Monster Calls

A Woman of Substance

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Family Guy

Miami Vice

Gangs of New York

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Beginning: Making Episode I

Life's Too Short

Silence

Road

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

The Mission

Breakfast on Pluto

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

The Story of Star Wars

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Late Night with Conan O'Brien