Liam Neeson
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jun 7, 1952 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
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).
Known For
| 2026 | Cold StorageRobert Quinn | |
| 2026 | 4 Kids Walk Into a BankDanny | |
| 2025 | Ice Road: VengeanceMike McCann | |
| 2025 | The Naked GunFrank Drebin Jr. | |
| 2025 | Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not EnoughNarrator | |
| 2024 | AbsolutionThug | |
| 2024 | Our Blue World: A Water OdysseyNarrator | |
| 2024 | Conan O'Brien Must GoBryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2023 | WildcatFather Flynn | |
| 2023 | In the Land of Saints and SinnersFinbar Murphy | |
| 2023 | RetributionMatt Turner | |
| 2023 | MarlowePhilip Marlowe | |
| 2022 | BonnieSelf | |
| 2022 | Brian Friel: Shy Man, ShowmanSelf | |
| 2022 | Ireland | |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's ReturnSelf - Qui-Gon Jinn | |
| 2022 | Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is LiriciSelf | |
| 2022 | MemoryAlex Lewis | |
| 2022 | BlacklightTravis Block | |
| 2022 | The U.S. and the Holocaust | |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan KenobiQui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan KenobiQui-Gon Jinn (uncredited) | |
| 2022 | Benjamin FranklinAlexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice) | |
| 2022 | Star Wars: Tales of the JediQui-Gon Jinn (voice) | |
| 2021 | The MarksmanJim | |
| 2021 | The Ice RoadMike McCann | |
| 2020 | The Hunger: The Story of the Irish FamineSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2020 | WAMEGO: Addendum | |
| 2020 | Honest ThiefTom Dolan | |
| 2020 | Made in ItalyRobert | |
| 2019 | Cold PursuitNels Coxman | |
| 2019 | Men in Black: InternationalAgent High T | |
| 2019 | Ordinary LoveTom | |
| 2019 | Lost LivesSelf (voice) | |
| 2019 | Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerQui-Gon Jinn (voice) | |
| 2019 | Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water CrisisNarrator | |
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for BreakfastSelf - Actor | |
| 2018 | The CommuterMichael MacCauley | |
| 2018 | WidowsHarry Rawlings | |
| 2018 | The Last Horsemen of New York | |
| 2018 | The Ballad of Buster ScruggsImpresario (segment "Meal Ticket") | |
| 2018 | Schindler's List: 25 Years LaterSelf | |
| 2018 | An Oral History of: Schindler's ListSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Pope: The Most Powerful Man in HistorySelf - Narrator | |
| 2018 | Derry GirlsChief Inspector Byers | |
| 2017 | SpielbergSelf - Segment "Schindler's List" | |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White HouseMark Felt | |
| 2017 | Karenina & ILeo Tolstoy | |
| 2017 | Red Nose Day ActuallyDaniel | |
| 2017 | Daddy's Home 2Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited) | |
| 2017 | And the Winner Isn'tSelf | |
| 2017 | In the Name of Peace: John Hume in AmericaNarrator | |
| 2017 | Martin Scorsese's Journey Into SilenceSelf | |
| 2017 | The OrvilleJahavus Dorahl | |
| 2016 | SilenceFerreira | |
| 2016 | The Last LaughSelf | |
| 2016 | A Monster CallsThe Monster (voice) | |
| 2016 | The Huntsman: Winter's WarNarrator (voice) (uncredited) | |
| 2016 | Operation ChromiteDouglas MacArthur | |
| 2016 | How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children StoryNarrator (voice) | |
| 2016 | A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On YeatsSelf | |
| 2016 | Love Thy NatureSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2016 | Dream Corp LLCJoey in the Center of Her Mind (voice) | |
| 2016 | AtlantaLiam Neeson | |
| 2016 | 1916Narrator | |
| 2015 | Run All NightJimmy Conlon | |
| 2015 | EntourageLiam Neeson | |
| 2015 | Ted 2Customer | |
| 2015 | A Christmas StarNarrator / Radio DJ | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf | |
| 2015 | Nature Is SpeakingIce | |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen ColbertMr. Toffee | |
| 2014 | The Lego MovieBad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice) | |
| 2014 | Third PersonMichael | |
| 2014 | A Walk Among the TombstonesMatthew Scudder | |
| 2014 | A Million Ways to Die in the WestClinch | |
| 2014 | MannyNarrator | |
| 2014 | Non-StopBill Marks | |
| 2014 | The Nut JobRaccoon (voice) | |
| 2014 | Taken 3Bryan Mills | |
| 2014 | RoadNarrator (voice) | |
| 2014 | Kahlil Gibran's The ProphetMustafa (voice) | |
| 2014 | Wild Japan: Snow MonkeysSelf - Narrator | |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf - Guest | |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth MeyersSelf - Guest | |
| 2013 | KhumbaPhango (voice) | |
| 2013 | Girl RisingNarrator (voice) | |
| 2013 | Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage!The Journalist | |
| 2013 | Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesHistory Channel Host (uncredited) | |
| 2013 | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight TrilogySelf (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Excalibur: Behind the MovieSelf | |
| 2012 | BattleshipAdmiral Shane | |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight RisesRa's Al Ghul | |
| 2012 | Taken 2Bryan Mills | |
| 2012 | The GreyJohn Ottway | |
| 2012 | Wrath of the TitansZeus | |
| 2012 | Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate EngineNarrator (voice) | |
| 2012 | The Secret Policeman's BallSelf | |
| 2011 | UnknownDr. Martin Harris | |
| 2011 | A Child's Garden of PoetrySelf (voice) | |
| 2011 | The Jonathan Ross ShowSelf | |
| 2011 | Life's Too ShortLiam Neeson | |
| 2010 | ChloeDavid Stewart | |
| 2010 | The Next Three DaysDamon | |
| 2010 | Clash of the TitansZeus | |
| 2010 | The Wildest DreamNarrator | |
| 2010 | The A-TeamHannibal | |
| 2010 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn TreaderAslan (voice) | |
| 2010 | ConanSelf | |
| 2010 | Buccaneers & Bones | |
| 2009 | After.LifeEliot Deacon | |
| 2009 | Five Minutes of HeavenAlistair Little | |
| 2009 | Live from Studio FiveSelf | |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy CohenSelf - Guest | |
| 2008 | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince CaspianAslan (voice) | |
| 2008 | TakenBryan Mills | |
| 2008 | The Other ManPeter | |
| 2008 | The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec FilesSelf | |
| 2008 | Star Wars: The Clone WarsQui-Gon Jinn (voice) | |
| 2007 | Seraphim FallsCarver | |
| 2007 | TrumboSelf | |
| 2007 | The Birth of ChristSelf - Narrator | |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton ShowSelf | |
| 2006 | Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary FilmSelf | |
| 2006 | Black Holes: The Other Side of InfinityNarrator | |
| 2006 | Sergeant York: Of God and Country | |
| 2006 | XavierNarrator | |
| 2006 | Home | |
| 2006 | The Path to RedemptionSelf | |
| 2006 | The One ShowSelf - Guest | |
| 2006 | El hormigueroSelf | |
| 2005 | Batman BeginsDucard | |
| 2005 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeAslan (voice) | |
| 2005 | Breakfast on PlutoFather Liam | |
| 2005 | Kingdom of HeavenGodfrey de Ibelin | |
| 2005 | George Lucas: Creating an EmpireSelf | |
| 2004 | KinseyAlfred Kinsey | |
| 2004 | Happy Birthday Oscar WildeSelf | |
| 2004 | PatrickNarrator | |
| 2004 | The Story of Star WarsQui-Gon Jinn (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?Self (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Love ActuallyDaniel | |
| 2003 | Coral Reef AdventureNarrator (voice) | |
| 2003 | Martin LutherSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2003 | Uncovering the Real Gangs of New YorkSelf | |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf | |
| 2003 | Martin LutherSelf - Narrator (voice) | |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest | |
| 2002 | Gangs of New York'Priest' Vallon | |
| 2002 | K-19: The WidowmakerMikhail Polenin | |
| 2002 | The Big BangSelf | |
| 2002 | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the ClonesQui-Gon Jinn (voice) | |
| 2002 | The MazeNarrator | |
| 2002 | Liberty's KidsJohn Paul Jones (voice) | |
| 2001 | Journey into Amazing CavesNarrator (voice) | |
| 2001 | The Beginning: Making Episode ISelf | |
| 2001 | The Mind's Big BangSelf | |
| 2000 | The EnduranceNarrator (voice) | |
| 2000 | Gun ShyCharles Mayough | |
| 2000 | Inside The Space StationSelf - Narrator | |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of CivilizationNarrator | |
| 2000 | The Greeks: Crucible of CivilizationSelf - Narrator | |
| 1999 | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom MenaceQui-Gon Jinn | |
| 1999 | The HauntingDr. David Marrow | |
| 1999 | Family GuyLiam Neeson (voice) | |
| 1998 | Les MisérablesJean Valjean | |
| 1998 | EverestNarrator | |
| 1998 | ParkinsonSelf | |
| 1997 | The ViewSelf | |
| 1996 | Michael CollinsMichael Collins | |
| 1996 | Before and AfterBen Ryan | |
| 1996 | A Leap of FaithNarrator (voice) | |
| 1996 | Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and HandsomeHost | |
| 1996 | The Daily ShowSelf | |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell ShowSelf - Guest | |
| 1995 | Rob RoyRobert Roy MacGregor | |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company(segment "John Boorman") | |
| 1995 | Miss SarajevoSelf | |
| 1995 | Out of IrelandWilliam Murphy (voice) | |
| 1994 | NellDr. Lovell | |
| 1993 | Schindler's ListOskar Schindler | |
| 1993 | Ethan FromeEthan Frome | |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest | |
| 1992 | Shining ThroughFranze-Otto Dietrich | |
| 1992 | Leap of FaithSheriff Will Braverman | |
| 1992 | Husbands and WivesMichael Gates | |
| 1992 | Ruby CairoFergus Lamb | |
| 1991 | Under SuspicionTony Aaron | |
| 1991 | RevolverMan | |
| 1990 | DarkmanPeyton Westlake / Darkman | |
| 1990 | The Big ManDanny Scoular | |
| 1989 | Next of KinBriar Gates | |
| 1989 | The SimpsonsFather Sean (voice) | |
| 1988 | The Dead PoolPeter Swan | |
| 1988 | High SpiritsMartin Brogan | |
| 1988 | SatisfactionMartin Falcon | |
| 1988 | The Good MotherLeo Cutter | |
| 1988 | Sweet as You AreMartin Perry | |
| 1988 | This MorningSelf | |
| 1987 | SuspectCarl Wayne Anderson | |
| 1987 | A Prayer for the DyingLiam Docherty | |
| 1987 | Sworn to SilenceVincent Cauley | |
| 1987 | Hold the DreamBlackie O'Neill | |
| 1986 | The Delta ForceDelta Force Member (uncredited) | |
| 1986 | The MissionFather John Fielding | |
| 1986 | LambMichael Lamb | |
| 1986 | Duet for OneTotter | |
| 1986 | If Tomorrow ComesAndré Trignant | |
| 1985 | Arthur the KingGrak | |
| 1985 | The InnocentJohn Carns | |
| 1985 | A Woman of SubstanceBlackie O'Neill | |
| 1984 | The BountyCharles Churchill | |
| 1984 | An Audience with Mel BrooksSelf (uncredited) | |
| 1984 | Miami ViceSean Carroon | |
| 1984 | Goldene KameraSelf | |
| 1984 | Ellis IslandKevin Murray | |
| 1983 | KrullKegan | |
| 1983 | Across the WaterMartin | |
| 1982 | NatureNarrator (voice) | |
| 1981 | ExcaliburGawain | |
| 1981 | NailedYoung Catholic | |
| 1980 | My Dear PalestrinaBlacksmith | |
| 1979 | ChristianaGreatheart | |
| 1979 | The Last Window CleanerSelf | |
| 1978 | Pilgrim's ProgressEvangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ | |
| 1978 | Dinner at the Sporting ClubDermot | |
| 1978 | An Audience with...Self | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night LiveSelf - Host | |
| 1975 | Saturday Night LiveSelf - Cameo (uncredited) | |
| 1974 | PlayhouseBlacksmith | |
| 1970 | Play for TodayHim | |
| 1968 | 60 MinutesSelf | |
| 1956 | Tony AwardsSelf - Nominee | |
| 1956 | Tony AwardsSelf - Presenter | |
| 1953 | The OscarsSelf | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Nominee | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe AwardsSelf - Presenter | |
| - | The Riker's Ghost | |
| - | Narco Sub | |
| - | Hotel TehranLarry | |
| - | MongooseRyan "Fang" Flanagan | |
| - | The TrainerJohn Moore | |
| - | Charlie Johnson in the Flames | |
| - | Cold Pursuit 2Nels Coxman | |
| - | Plague of Corruption: 80 Years of Pharmaceutical Corruption ExposedNarrator (voice) | |
| - | Evolution - Darwin's Dangerous IdeaNarrator | |
| - | The Nut Job 3Raccoon (voice) |
| 2018 | The White CrowExecutive Producer | |
| - | The Lost Children of TuamProducer |