Liam Neeson
Biography
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).
Movies (176)
4 Kids Walk Into a Bank
2026
Cold Storage
2026
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
2025
The Naked Gun
2025
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025
Absolution
2024
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey
2024
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
2023
Wildcat
2023
Retribution
2023
Marlowe
2023
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici
2022
Bonnie
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
Memory
2022
Ireland
2022
Blacklight
2022
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman
2022
The Ice Road
2021
The Marksman
2021
Honest Thief
2020
Made in Italy
2020
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
2020
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
2019
Ordinary Love
2019
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis
2019
Lost Lives
2019
Men in Black: International
2019
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Cold Pursuit
2019
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2018
Widows
2018
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later
2018
The Last Horsemen of New York
2018
The Commuter
2018
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Daddy's Home 2
2017
Spielberg
2017
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
2017
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America
2017
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence
2017
Red Nose Day Actually
2017
Karenina & I
2017
Silence
2016
A Monster Calls
2016
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story
2016
Operation Chromite
2016
Love Thy Nature
2016
The Last Laugh
2016
The Huntsman: Winter's War
2016
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats
2016
A Christmas Star
2015
Ted 2
2015
Entourage
2015
Run All Night
2015
Manny
2014
Taken 3
2014
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
Third Person
2014
Road
2014
A Million Ways to Die in the West
2014
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys
2014
Non-Stop
2014
The Lego Movie
2014
The Nut Job
2014
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
2013
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy
2013
Khumba
2013
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!
2013
Girl Rising
2013
Taken 2
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine
2012
Battleship
2012
Wrath of the Titans
2012
The Secret Policeman's Ball
2012
The Grey
2012
A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011
Unknown
2011
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
2010
The Next Three Days
2010
The Wildest Dream
2010
The A-Team
2010
Clash of the Titans
2010
Chloe
2010
After.Life
2009
Five Minutes of Heaven
2009
The Other Man
2008
The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files
2008
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
2008
Taken
2008
The Birth of Christ
2007
Trumbo
2007
Seraphim Falls
2007
Sergeant York: Of God and Country
2006
Home
2006
Xavier
2006
The Path to Redemption
2006
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
2006
Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity
2006
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2005
Breakfast on Pluto
2005
Batman Begins
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
2005
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde
2004
Kinsey
2004
The Story of Star Wars
2004
Patrick
2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004
Love Actually
2003
Martin Luther
2003
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
2003
Coral Reef Adventure
2003
Gangs of New York
2002
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
The Big Bang
2002
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002
The Maze
2002
The Beginning: Making Episode I
2001
Journey into Amazing Caves
2001
Inside The Space Station
2000
The Endurance
2000
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Gun Shy
2000
The Haunting
1999
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
Les Misérables
1998
Everest
1998
Michael Collins
1996
Before and After
1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Lumière & Company
1995
Out of Ireland
1995
Rob Roy
1995
Miss Sarajevo
1995
Nell
1994
Schindler's List
1993
Ethan Frome
1993
Leap of Faith
1992
Ruby Cairo
1992
Husbands and Wives
1992
Shining Through
1992
Revolver
1991
Under Suspicion
1991
The Big Man
1990
Darkman
1990
Next of Kin
1989
High Spirits
1988
The Good Mother
1988
The Dead Pool
1988
Satisfaction
1988
Sweet as You Are
1988
Suspect
1987
A Prayer for the Dying
1987
Sworn to Silence
1987
Duet for One
1986
Lamb
1986
The Mission
1986
The Delta Force
1986
Arthur the King
1985
The Innocent
1985
The Bounty
1984
An Audience with Mel Brooks
1984
Krull
1983
Across the Water
1983
Nailed
1981
Excalibur
1981
My Dear Palestrina
1980
Christiana
1979
Dinner at the Sporting Club
1978
Pilgrim's Progress
1978
Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption Exposed
Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous Idea
TV Shows (59)
David Frost Vs
2025
Conan O'Brien Must Go
2024
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
2022
Benjamin Franklin
2022
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History
2018
Derry Girls
2018
The Orville
2017
Dream Corp LLC
2016
Atlanta
2016
1916
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Nature Is Speaking
2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Life's Too Short
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
Buccaneers & Bones
2010
Conan
2010
Live from Studio Five
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
2008
The Graham Norton Show
2007
El hormiguero
2006
The One Show
2006
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Martin Luther
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Liberty's Kids
2002
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
2000
Family Guy
1999
Parkinson
1998
The View
1997
The Daily Show
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Simpsons
1989
This Morning
1988
Hold the Dream
1987
If Tomorrow Comes
1986
A Woman of Substance
1985
Ellis Island
1984
Miami Vice
1984
Nature
1982
An Audience with...
1978
Saturday Night Live
1975
Saturday Night Live
1975
Playhouse
1974
Play for Today
1970
60 Minutes
1968
Omnibus
1967
Tony Awards
1956
Tony Awards
1956
The Oscars
1953
Golden Globe Awards
1944
Golden Globe Awards
1944