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.
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).
External links
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Filmography (Movies)
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
Character:Danny
Release Date:16/04/2026
Cold Storage
Character:Robert Quinn
Release Date:22/01/2026
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Character:Narrator
Release Date:26/09/2025
The Naked Gun
Character:Frank Drebin Jr.
Release Date:30/07/2025
Ice Road: Vengeance
Character:Mike McCann
Release Date:27/06/2025
Absolution
Character:Thug
Release Date:31/10/2024
Wildcat
Character:Father Flynn
Release Date:03/05/2024
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
Character:Narrator
Release Date:22/04/2024
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
Character:Finbar Murphy
Release Date:06/10/2023
Retribution
Character:Matt Turner
Release Date:23/08/2023
Marlowe
Character:Philip Marlowe
Release Date:15/02/2023
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
Character:Self
Release Date:19/11/2022
Bonnie
Character:Self
Release Date:12/11/2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Character:Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
Release Date:07/09/2022
Memory
Character:Alex Lewis
Release Date:28/04/2022
Ireland
Character:
Release Date:28/02/2022
Blacklight
Character:Travis Block
Release Date:10/02/2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
Character:Self
Release Date:06/01/2022
The Ice Road
Character:Mike McCann
Release Date:24/06/2021
The Marksman
Character:Jim
Release Date:15/01/2021
WAMEGO: Addendum
Character:
Release Date:15/12/2020
Honest Thief
Character:Tom Dolan
Release Date:03/09/2020
Made in Italy
Character:Robert
Release Date:09/07/2020
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:06/03/2020
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Release Date:18/12/2019
Ordinary Love
Character:Tom
Release Date:06/12/2019
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/12/2019
Lost Lives
Character:
Release Date:10/10/2019
Men in Black: International
Character:Agent High T
Release Date:12/06/2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Character:Self - Actor
Release Date:27/02/2019
Cold Pursuit
Character:Nels Coxman
Release Date:07/02/2019
An Oral History of: Schindler's List
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:15/12/2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Character:Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
Release Date:09/11/2018
Widows
Character:Harry Rawlings
Release Date:06/11/2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
Character:Self
Release Date:01/10/2018
The Last Horsemen of New York
Character:
Release Date:11/05/2018
The Commuter
Character:Michael MacCauley
Release Date:11/01/2018
And the Winner Isn't
Character:Self
Release Date:08/12/2017
Daddy's Home 2
Character:Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:09/11/2017
Spielberg
Character:Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
Release Date:05/10/2017
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Character:Mark Felt
Release Date:28/09/2017
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
Character:Narrator
Release Date:24/09/2017
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
Character:Self
Release Date:28/03/2017
Red Nose Day Actually
Character:Daniel
Release Date:24/03/2017
Karenina & I
Character:Leo Tolstoy
Release Date:24/02/2017
Silence
Character:Ferreira
Release Date:23/12/2016
A Monster Calls
Character:The Monster (voice)
Release Date:07/10/2016
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:25/09/2016
Operation Chromite
Character:Douglas MacArthur
Release Date:27/07/2016
Love Thy Nature
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:22/04/2016
The Last Laugh
Character:Self
Release Date:18/04/2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Character:Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:06/04/2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
Character:Self
Release Date:03/04/2016
A Christmas Star
Character:Narrator / Radio DJ
Release Date:29/12/2015
Ted 2
Character:Customer
Release Date:25/06/2015
Entourage
Character:Liam Neeson
Release Date:03/06/2015
Run All Night
Character:Jimmy Conlon
Release Date:11/03/2015
Manny
Character:Narrator
Release Date:31/12/2014
Taken 3
Character:Bryan Mills
Release Date:16/12/2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
Character:Matthew Scudder
Release Date:18/09/2014
The Prophet
Character:Mustafa (voice)
Release Date:06/09/2014
Third Person
Character:Michael
Release Date:20/06/2014
Road
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:11/06/2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Character:Clinch
Release Date:22/05/2014
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
Character:Self - Narrator
Release Date:23/04/2014
Non-Stop
Character:Bill Marks
Release Date:26/02/2014
The Lego Movie
Character:Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
Release Date:06/02/2014
The Nut Job
Character:Raccoon (voice)
Release Date:17/01/2014
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Character:Self
Release Date:20/12/2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Character:History Channel Host (uncredited)
Release Date:18/12/2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:24/09/2013
Khumba
Character:Phango (voice)
Release Date:18/07/2013
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
Character:The Journalist
Release Date:11/04/2013
Girl Rising
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:07/03/2013
Taken 2
Character:Bryan Mills
Release Date:27/09/2012
The Dark Knight Rises
Character:Ra's Al Ghul
Release Date:17/07/2012
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:27/04/2012
Battleship
Character:Admiral Shane
Release Date:11/04/2012
Wrath of the Titans
Character:Zeus
Release Date:28/03/2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
Character:Self
Release Date:04/03/2012
The Grey
Character:John Ottway
Release Date:26/01/2012
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Character:Self (voice)
Release Date:28/04/2011
Unknown
Character:Dr. Martin Harris
Release Date:16/02/2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Character:Aslan (voice)
Release Date:02/12/2010
The Next Three Days
Character:Damon
Release Date:18/11/2010
The Wildest Dream
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/08/2010
The A-Team
Character:Hannibal
Release Date:09/06/2010
Clash of the Titans
Character:Zeus
Release Date:26/03/2010
Chloe
Character:David Stewart
Release Date:25/02/2010
After.Life
Character:Eliot Deacon
Release Date:07/11/2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
Character:Alistair Little
Release Date:19/01/2009
The Other Man
Character:Peter
Release Date:25/12/2008
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
Character:Self
Release Date:28/10/2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Character:Aslan (voice)
Release Date:15/05/2008
Taken
Character:Bryan Mills
Release Date:18/02/2008
The Birth of Christ
Character:Self - Narrator
Release Date:06/11/2007
Trumbo
Character:Self
Release Date:10/09/2007
Seraphim Falls
Character:Carver
Release Date:26/01/2007
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
Character:
Release Date:07/11/2006
Home
Character:
Release Date:26/10/2006
Xavier
Character:Narrator
Release Date:29/09/2006
The Path to Redemption
Character:Self
Release Date:23/05/2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Character:Self
Release Date:27/03/2006
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
Character:Narrator
Release Date:10/02/2006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Character:Aslan (voice)
Release Date:07/12/2005
Breakfast on Pluto
Character:Father Liam
Release Date:16/11/2005
Batman Begins
Character:Ducard
Release Date:10/06/2005
Kingdom of Heaven
Character:Godfrey de Ibelin
Release Date:03/05/2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
Character:Self
Release Date:27/01/2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
Character:Self
Release Date:27/12/2004
Kinsey
Character:Alfred Kinsey
Release Date:04/09/2004
The Story of Star Wars
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
Release Date:18/08/2004
Patrick
Character:Narrator
Release Date:14/03/2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:06/03/2004
Love Actually
Character:Daniel
Release Date:07/09/2003
Martin Luther
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:09/07/2003
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
Character:Self
Release Date:01/07/2003
Coral Reef Adventure
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:14/02/2003
Gangs of New York
Character:'Priest' Vallon
Release Date:14/12/2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
Character:Mikhail Polenin
Release Date:19/07/2002
The Big Bang
Character:Self
Release Date:04/07/2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Release Date:15/05/2002
The Beginning: Making Episode I
Character:Self
Release Date:16/10/2001
The Mind's Big Bang
Character:Self
Release Date:27/09/2001
Journey into Amazing Caves
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:01/03/2001
Inside The Space Station
Character:Self - Narrator
Release Date:10/12/2000
The Endurance
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:02/09/2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Character:Narrator
Release Date:09/02/2000
Gun Shy
Character:Charles Mayough
Release Date:04/02/2000
The Haunting
Character:Dr. David Marrow
Release Date:23/07/1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn
Release Date:19/05/1999
Les Misérables
Character:Jean Valjean
Release Date:01/05/1998
Everest
Character:Narrator
Release Date:06/03/1998
A Leap of Faith
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:29/11/1996
Michael Collins
Character:Michael Collins
Release Date:25/10/1996
Before and After
Character:Ben Ryan
Release Date:23/02/1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Character:Host
Release Date:04/02/1996
Lumière & Company
Character:(segment "John Boorman")
Release Date:20/12/1995
Out of Ireland
Character:William Murphy (voice)
Release Date:09/06/1995
Rob Roy
Character:Robert Roy MacGregor
Release Date:13/04/1995
Miss Sarajevo
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/1995
Nell
Character:Dr. Lovell
Release Date:23/12/1994
Schindler's List
Character:Oskar Schindler
Release Date:15/12/1993
Ethan Frome
Character:Ethan Frome
Release Date:12/03/1993
Leap of Faith
Character:Sheriff Will Braverman
Release Date:18/12/1992
Ruby Cairo
Character:Fergus Lamb
Release Date:12/12/1992
Husbands and Wives
Character:Michael Gates
Release Date:18/09/1992
Shining Through
Character:Franze-Otto Dietrich
Release Date:31/01/1992
Revolver
Character:Man
Release Date:01/10/1991
Under Suspicion
Character:Tony Aaron
Release Date:27/09/1991
The Big Man
Character:Danny Scoular
Release Date:31/08/1990
Darkman
Character:Peyton Westlake / Darkman
Release Date:24/08/1990
Next of Kin
Character:Briar Gates
Release Date:20/10/1989
High Spirits
Character:Martin Brogan
Release Date:18/11/1988
The Good Mother
Character:Leo Cutter
Release Date:04/11/1988
The Dead Pool
Character:Peter Swan
Release Date:13/07/1988
Satisfaction
Character:Martin Falcon
Release Date:12/02/1988
Sweet as You Are
Character:Martin Perry
Release Date:24/01/1988
Suspect
Character:Carl Wayne Anderson
Release Date:23/10/1987
A Prayer for the Dying
Character:Liam Docherty
Release Date:11/09/1987
Sworn to Silence
Character:Vincent Cauley
Release Date:06/04/1987
Duet for One
Character:Totter
Release Date:25/12/1986
Lamb
Character:Michael Lamb
Release Date:10/10/1986
The Mission
Character:Father John Fielding
Release Date:06/09/1986
The Delta Force
Character:Delta Force Member (uncredited)
Release Date:14/02/1986
Arthur the King
Character:Grak
Release Date:26/04/1985
The Innocent
Character:John Carns
Release Date:18/03/1985
The Bounty
Character:Charles Churchill
Release Date:04/05/1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:04/02/1984
Krull
Character:Kegan
Release Date:29/07/1983
Across the Water
Character:Martin
Release Date:10/06/1983
Nailed
Character:Young Catholic
Release Date:02/06/1981
Excalibur
Character:Gawain
Release Date:10/04/1981
My Dear Palestrina
Character:Blacksmith
Release Date:05/12/1980
Christiana
Character:Greatheart
Release Date:10/06/1979
The Last Window Cleaner
Character:Self
Release Date:13/02/1979
Dinner at the Sporting Club
Character:Dermot
Release Date:07/11/1978
Pilgrim's Progress
Character:Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
Release Date:05/04/1978
Television Appearances
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Character:Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Character:
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (uncredited)
Benjamin Franklin
Character:Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
Character:Self - Narrator
Derry Girls
Character:Chief Inspector Byers
The Orville
Character:Jahavus Dorahl
Dream Corp LLC
Character:Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
Atlanta
Character:Liam Neeson
1916
Character:Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character:Self
Nature Is Speaking
Character:Ice
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Character:Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Character:Self
Life's Too Short
Character:Liam Neeson
The Jonathan Ross Show
Character:Self
Buccaneers & Bones
Character:
Conan
Character:Self
Live from Studio Five
Character:Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Character:Self - Guest
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Character:Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
Character:Self
El hormiguero
Character:Self
The One Show
Character:Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Character:Self
Martin Luther
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Character:Self - Guest
Liberty's Kids
Character:John Paul Jones (voice)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
Character:Self - Narrator
Family Guy
Character:Liam Neeson (voice)
Parkinson
Character:Self
The View
Character:Self
The Daily Show
Character:Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character:Self - Guest
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Character:Self - Guest
The Simpsons
Character:Father Sean (voice)
This Morning
Character:Self
If Tomorrow Comes
Character:André Trignant
A Woman of Substance
Character:Blackie O'Neill
Ellis Island
Character:Kevin Murray
Miami Vice
Character:Sean Carroon
Goldene Kamera
Character:Self
Nature
Character:Narrator (voice)
An Audience with...
Character:Self
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
Character:Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Playhouse
Character:Blacksmith
Play for Today
Character:Him
60 Minutes
Character:Self
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Tony Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
The Oscars
Character:Self
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
Character:Self - Presenter
Images
