Liam Neeson

Born: 1952-06-07 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Known For: Acting

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).

Filmography

2026

Cold Storage as Robert Quinn
Hotel Tehran as Larry
The Lost Children of Tuam ... (Producer)

2025

The Naked Gun as Frank Drebin Jr.
Ice Road: Vengeance as Mike McCann
David Frost Vs as self
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator

2024

Absolution as Thug
Conan O'Brien Must Go as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wildcat as Father Flynn
Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey as Narrator

2023

Retribution as Matt Turner
In the Land of Saints and Sinners as Finbar Murphy
Marlowe as Philip Marlowe

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Blacklight as Travis Block
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Memory as Alex Lewis
Benjamin Franklin as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
Bonnie as Self
Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici as Self
Ireland
Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self

2021

The Marksman as Jim
The Ice Road as Mike McCann

2020

Honest Thief as Tom Dolan
Made in Italy as Robert
WAMEGO: Addendum
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine as Self - Narrator (voice)

2019

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Men in Black: International as Agent High T
Cold Pursuit as Nels Coxman
Ordinary Love as Tom
Lost Lives as Self (voice)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actor
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis as Narrator

2018

Derry Girls as Chief Inspector Byers
The Commuter as Michael MacCauley
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
Widows as Harry Rawlings
The White Crow ... (Executive Producer)
An Oral History of: Schindler's List as Self (archive footage)
Pope: The Most Powerful Man in History as Self - Narrator
Schindler's List: 25 Years Later as Self
The Last Horsemen of New York

2017

The Orville as Jahavus Dorahl
Daddy's Home 2 as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
Red Nose Day Actually as Daniel
Spielberg as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House as Mark Felt
And the Winner Isn't as Self
In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America as Narrator
Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
Karenina & I as Leo Tolstoy

2016

Atlanta as Liam Neeson
Dream Corp LLC as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
The Huntsman: Winter's War as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A Monster Calls as The Monster (voice)
Silence as Ferreira
Operation Chromite as Douglas MacArthur
The Last Laugh as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story as Narrator (voice)
1916 as Narrator
Love Thy Nature as Self - Narrator (voice)
A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self

2015

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
Ted 2 as Customer
Run All Night as Jimmy Conlon
Entourage as Liam Neeson
Nature Is Speaking as Ice
A Christmas Star as Narrator / Radio DJ

2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest
The Lego Movie as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
Taken 3 as Bryan Mills
Non-Stop as Bill Marks
A Million Ways to Die in the West as Clinch
A Walk Among the Tombstones as Matthew Scudder
The Nut Job as Raccoon (voice)
Third Person as Michael
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet as Mustafa (voice)
Road as Narrator (voice)
Manny as Narrator
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys as Self - Narrator

2013

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as History Channel Host (uncredited)
Khumba as Phango (voice)
Girl Rising as Narrator (voice)
The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! as The Journalist

2012

Battleship as Admiral Shane
Taken 2 as Bryan Mills
The Dark Knight Rises as Ra's Al Ghul
Wrath of the Titans as Zeus
The Grey as John Ottway
The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine as Narrator (voice)

2011

The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
Unknown as Dr. Martin Harris
Life's Too Short as Liam Neeson
A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)

2004

Kinsey as Alfred Kinsey
The Story of Star Wars as Qui-Gon Jinn (archive footage)
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde as Self
Patrick as Narrator

2003

Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
Love Actually as Daniel
Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
Coral Reef Adventure as Narrator (voice)
Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self

2002

Gangs of New York as 'Priest' Vallon
K-19: The Widowmaker as Mikhail Polenin
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Liberty's Kids as John Paul Jones (voice)
The Maze as Narrator
The Big Bang as Self

2001

The Beginning: Making Episode I as Self
Journey into Amazing Caves as Narrator (voice)
The Mind's Big Bang as Self

2000

Gun Shy as Charles Mayough
The Endurance as Narrator (voice)
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Self - Narrator
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Narrator
Inside The Space Station as Self - Narrator

1999

Family Guy as Liam Neeson (voice)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace as Qui-Gon Jinn
The Haunting as Dr. David Marrow

1998

Parkinson as Self
Les Misérables as Jean Valjean
Everest as Narrator

1997

The View as Self

1996

The Daily Show as Self
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
Before and After as Ben Ryan
Michael Collins as Michael Collins
A Leap of Faith as Narrator (voice)
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome as Host

1995

Rob Roy as Robert Roy MacGregor
Lumière & Company as (segment "John Boorman")
Miss Sarajevo as Self
Out of Ireland as William Murphy (voice)

1994

Nell as Dr. Lovell

1993

Schindler's List as Oskar Schindler
Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
Ethan Frome as Ethan Frome

1992

Shining Through as Franze-Otto Dietrich
Leap of Faith as Sheriff Will Braverman
Ruby Cairo as Fergus Lamb
Husbands and Wives as Michael Gates

1991

Under Suspicion as Tony Aaron
Revolver as Man

1990

Darkman as Peyton Westlake / Darkman
The Big Man as Danny Scoular

1989

The Simpsons as Father Sean (voice)
Next of Kin as Briar Gates

1988

The Dead Pool as Peter Swan
High Spirits as Martin Brogan
This Morning as Self
The Good Mother as Leo Cutter
Satisfaction as Martin Falcon
Sweet as You Are as Martin Perry

1987

Hold the Dream as Blackie O'Neill
Suspect as Carl Wayne Anderson
A Prayer for the Dying as Liam Docherty
Sworn to Silence as Vincent Cauley

1986

Lamb as Michael Lamb
The Delta Force as Delta Force Member (uncredited)
If Tomorrow Comes as André Trignant
The Mission as Father John Fielding
Duet for One as Totter

1985

Screen Two as Martin Perry
A Woman of Substance as Blackie O'Neill
The Innocent as John Carns
Arthur the King as Grak

1984

Miami Vice as Sean Carroon
Goldene Kamera as Self
The Bounty as Charles Churchill
Ellis Island as Kevin Murray
An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)

1983

Krull as Kegan
Across the Water as Martin

1982

Nature as Narrator (voice)

1981

Excalibur as Gawain
Nailed as Young Catholic

1980

My Dear Palestrina as Blacksmith

1979

Christiana as Greatheart
The Last Window Cleaner as Self

1978

An Audience with... as Self
Pilgrim's Progress as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
Dinner at the Sporting Club as Dermot

1975

Saturday Night Live as Self - Host

1974

Playhouse as Blacksmith

1970

Play for Today as Him

1968

60 Minutes as Self

1967

Omnibus

1956

Tony Awards as Self - Nominee

1953

The Oscars as Self

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee