Liam Neeson

Actor

Born June 7, 1952 in 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).

Filmography

4 Kids Walk Into a Bank

Danny

Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed

Narrator (voice)

Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea

Narrator

The Lost Children of Tuam

Cold Storage

Robert Quinn

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough

Narrator

The Naked Gun

Frank Drebin Jr.

Ice Road: Vengeance

Mike McCann

David Frost Vs

self

Absolution

Thug

Wildcat

Father Flynn

Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey

Narrator

Conan O'Brien Must Go

Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

Finbar Murphy

Retribution

Matt Turner

Marlowe

Philip Marlowe

Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici

Self

Bonnie

Self

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

Self - Qui-Gon Jinn

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Memory

Alex Lewis

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)

Ireland

Blacklight

Travis Block

Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman

Self

The Ice Road

Mike McCann

The Marksman

Jim

Honest Thief

Tom Dolan

Made in Italy

Robert

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Self - Narrator (voice)

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

Ordinary Love

Tom

Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis

Narrator

Lost Lives

Self (voice)

Men in Black: International

Agent High T

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Self - Actor

Cold Pursuit

Nels Coxman

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")

Widows

Harry Rawlings

Schindler's List: 25 Years Later

Self

The White Crow

The Last Horsemen of New York

Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History

Self - Narrator

The Commuter

Michael MacCauley

Derry Girls

Chief Inspector Byers

And the Winner Isn't

Self

Daddy's Home 2

Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)

Spielberg

Self - Segment "Schindler's List"

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Mark Felt

In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America

Narrator

The Orville

Jahavus Dorahl

Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence

Self

Red Nose Day Actually

Daniel

Karenina & I

Leo Tolstoy

Silence

Ferreira

Dream Corp LLC

Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)

A Monster Calls

The Monster (voice)

How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story

Narrator (voice)

Atlanta

Liam Neeson

Operation Chromite

Douglas MacArthur

Love Thy Nature

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Last Laugh

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats

Self

1916

Narrator

A Christmas Star

Narrator / Radio DJ

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Nature Is Speaking

Ice

Ted 2

Customer

Entourage

Liam Neeson

Run All Night

Jimmy Conlon

Manny

Narrator

Taken 3

Bryan Mills

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Matthew Scudder

Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet

Mustafa (voice)

Third Person

Michael

Road

Narrator (voice)

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Clinch

Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys

Self - Narrator

Non-Stop

Bill Marks

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self - Guest

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self - Guest

The Lego Movie

Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)

The Nut Job

Raccoon (voice)

Excalibur: Behind the Movie

Self

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

History Channel Host (uncredited)

The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy

Self (archive footage)

Khumba

Phango (voice)

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!

The Journalist

Girl Rising

Narrator (voice)

Taken 2

Bryan Mills

The Dark Knight Rises

Ra's Al Ghul

Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine

Narrator (voice)

Battleship

Admiral Shane

Wrath of the Titans

Zeus

The Secret Policeman's Ball

Self

The Grey

John Ottway

Life's Too Short

Liam Neeson

The Jonathan Ross Show

Self

A Child's Garden of Poetry

Self (voice)

Unknown

Dr. Martin Harris

Buccaneers & Bones

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Aslan (voice)

The Next Three Days

Damon

Conan

Self

The Wildest Dream

Narrator

The A-Team

Hannibal

Clash of the Titans

Zeus

Chloe

David Stewart

After.Life

Eliot Deacon

Live from Studio Five

Self

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Five Minutes of Heaven

Alistair Little

The Other Man

Peter

The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files

Self

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Aslan (voice)

Taken

Bryan Mills

The Birth of Christ

Self - Narrator

Trumbo

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Seraphim Falls

Carver

Sergeant York: Of God and Country

Home

Xavier

Narrator

El hormiguero

Self

The One Show

Self - Guest

The Path to Redemption

Self

Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film

Self

Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity

Narrator

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Aslan (voice)

Breakfast on Pluto

Father Liam

Batman Begins

Ducard

Kingdom of Heaven

Godfrey de Ibelin

George Lucas: Creating an Empire

Self

Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde

Self

Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey

The Story of Star Wars

Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)

Patrick

Narrator

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

Self (archive footage)

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Self

Love Actually

Daniel

Martin Luther

Self - Narrator (voice)

Martin Luther

Self - Narrator (voice)

Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York

Self

Coral Reef Adventure

Narrator (voice)

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self - Guest

Gangs of New York

'Priest' Vallon

Liberty's Kids

John Paul Jones (voice)

K-19: The Widowmaker

Mikhail Polenin

The Big Bang

Self

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)

The Maze

Narrator

The Beginning: Making Episode I

Self

Evolution

Narrator

Journey into Amazing Caves

Narrator (voice)

Inside The Space Station

Self - Narrator

The Endurance

Narrator (voice)

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Narrator

The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

Self - Narrator

Gun Shy

Charles Mayough

The Haunting

Dr. David Marrow

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Qui-Gon Jinn

Family Guy

Liam Neeson (voice)

Les Misérables

Jean Valjean

Everest

Narrator

Parkinson

Self

The View

Self

Michael Collins

The Daily Show

Self

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

Self - Guest

Before and After

Ben Ryan

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

Host

Lumière & Company

(segment "John Boorman")

Out of Ireland

William Murphy (voice)

Rob Roy

Robert Roy MacGregor

Miss Sarajevo

Self

Nell

Dr. Lovell

100 Years at the Movies

Self (archive footage)

Schindler's List

Oskar Schindler

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Self - Guest

Ethan Frome

Leap of Faith

Sheriff Will Braverman

Ruby Cairo

Fergus Lamb

Husbands and Wives

Michael Gates

Shining Through

Franze-Otto Dietrich

Revolver

Man

Under Suspicion

Tony Aaron

The Big Man

Danny Scoular

Darkman

Peyton Westlake / Darkman

The Simpsons

Father Sean (voice)

Next of Kin

Briar Gates

High Spirits

Martin Brogan

The Good Mother

Leo Cutter

This Morning

Self

The Dead Pool

Peter Swan

Satisfaction

Martin Falcon

Sweet as You Are

Martin Perry

Suspect

Carl Wayne Anderson

A Prayer for the Dying

Liam Docherty

Hold the Dream

Blackie O'Neill

Sworn to Silence

Vincent Cauley

Duet for One

Totter

Lamb

Michael Lamb

The Mission

Father John Fielding

If Tomorrow Comes

André Trignant

The Delta Force

Delta Force Member (uncredited)

Arthur the King

Grak

The Innocent

John Carns

Screen Two

Martin Perry

A Woman of Substance

Blackie O'Neill

Ellis Island

Kevin Murray

Miami Vice

Sean Carroon

The Bounty

Charles Churchill

An Audience with Mel Brooks

Self (uncredited)

Krull

Kegan

Across the Water

Martin

Nature

Narrator (voice)

Nailed

Young Catholic

Excalibur

Gawain

My Dear Palestrina

Blacksmith

Christiana

Greatheart

Dinner at the Sporting Club

Dermot

Pilgrim's Progress

Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ

An Audience with...

Self

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Playhouse

Blacksmith

Play for Today

Him

60 Minutes

Self

Omnibus

Tony Awards

Self - Nominee

The Oscars

Self

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee