Liam Neeson
Born: 1952-06-07 in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Known For: Acting
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).
Filmography
2026
- Cold Storage as Robert Quinn
- 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank as Danny
2025
- The Naked Gun as Frank Drebin Jr.
- Ice Road: Vengeance as Mike McCann
- Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough as Narrator
2024
- Absolution as Thug
- Wildcat as Father Flynn
- Conan O'Brien Must Go as Bryan Mills (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey as Narrator
2023
- Retribution as Matt Turner
- Marlowe as Philip Marlowe
- In the Land of Saints and Sinners as Finbar Murphy
2022
- Memory as Alex Lewis
- Obi-Wan Kenobi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- Blacklight as Travis Block
- Bonnie as Self
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
- The U.S. and the Holocaust
- Benjamin Franklin as Alexander Wedderburn / Ambassador Lord Stormont (voice)
- Paul Muldoon: Laoithe is Lirici as Self
- Brian Friel: Shy Man, Showman as Self
- Ireland
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
- Lost Lives
- Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis as Narrator
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actor
- Ordinary Love as Tom
2018
- Derry Girls as Chief Inspector Byers
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs as Impresario (segment "Meal Ticket")
- Widows as Harry Rawlings
- The Commuter as Michael MacCauley
- 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
- Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House as Mark Felt
- Daddy's Home 2 as Liam Neeson (voice) (uncredited)
- Karenina & I as Leo Tolstoy
- Red Nose Day Actually as Daniel
- And the Winner Isn't as Self
- Spielberg as Self - Segment "Schindler's List"
- Martin Scorsese's Journey Into Silence as Self
- In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America as Narrator
2016
- Atlanta as Liam Neeson
- The Huntsman: Winter's War as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- Silence as Ferreira
- A Monster Calls as The Monster (voice)
- Dream Corp LLC as Joey in the Center of Her Mind (voice)
- How to Defuse a Bomb: The Project Children Story as Narrator (voice)
- Love Thy Nature as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Last Laugh as Self
- Operation Chromite as Douglas MacArthur
- A Fanatic Heart: Geldof On Yeats as Self
- 1916 as Narrator
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- Ted 2 as Customer
- Run All Night as Jimmy Conlon
- Entourage as Liam Neeson
- A Christmas Star as Narrator / Radio DJ
- Nature Is Speaking as Ice
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- A Million Ways to Die in the West as Clinch
- Taken 3 as Bryan Mills
- The Lego Movie as Bad Cop / Good Cop / Pa Cop (voice)
- Non-Stop as Bill Marks
- A Walk Among the Tombstones as Matthew Scudder
- Third Person as Michael
- The Nut Job as Raccoon (voice)
- The Prophet as Mustafa (voice)
- Road as Narrator (voice)
- Manny as Narrator
- Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys as Self - Narrator
2013
- Girl Rising as Narrator (voice)
- Khumba as Phango (voice)
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues as History Channel Host (uncredited)
- Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds - The New Generation: Alive on Stage! as The Journalist
- The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy as Self (archive footage)
- Excalibur: Behind the Movie as Self
2012
- The Dark Knight Rises as Ra's Al Ghul
- Taken 2 as Bryan Mills
- The Grey as John Ottway
- Wrath of the Titans as Zeus
- Battleship as Admiral Shane
- The Secret Policeman's Ball as Self
- Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine as Narrator (voice)
2011
- Unknown as Dr. Martin Harris
- The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- Life's Too Short as Liam Neeson
- A Child's Garden of Poetry as Self (voice)
2010
- Conan as Self
- Clash of the Titans as Zeus
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Aslan (voice)
- The A-Team as Hannibal
- The Next Three Days as Damon
- Chloe as David Stewart
- The Wildest Dream as Narrator
- Buccaneers & Bones
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- After.Life as Eliot Deacon
- Five Minutes of Heaven as Alistair Little
- Live from Studio Five as Self
2008
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- Taken as Bryan Mills
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian as Aslan (voice)
- The Other Man as Peter
- The Making of Fallout 3: The Vault-Tec Files as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Seraphim Falls as Carver
- Trumbo as Self
- The Birth of Christ as Self - Narrator
2006
- El hormiguero as Self
- The One Show as Self - Guest
- The Path to Redemption as Self
- Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film as Self
- Home
- Sergeant York: Of God and Country
- Xavier as Narrator
- Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity as Narrator
2005
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Aslan (voice)
- Batman Begins as Ducard
- Kingdom of Heaven as Godfrey de Ibelin
- Breakfast on Pluto as Father Liam
- George Lucas: Creating an Empire as Self
2004
- Kinsey as Alfred Kinsey
- Patrick as Narrator
- 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
2003
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest
- Love Actually as Daniel
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
- Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York as Self
- Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Coral Reef Adventure as Narrator (voice)
- Martin Luther as Self - Narrator (voice)
2002
- Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
- Gangs of New York as 'Priest' Vallon
- K-19: The Widowmaker as Mikhail Polenin
- Liberty's Kids as John Paul Jones (voice)
- The Big Bang as Self
2001
- Journey into Amazing Caves as Narrator (voice)
- The Beginning: Making Episode I as Self
- The Mind's Big Bang as Self
2000
- Gun Shy as Charles Mayough
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Narrator
- The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Self - Narrator
- The Endurance as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- Michael Collins as Michael Collins
- The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
- Before and After as Ben Ryan
- Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome as Host
- A Leap of Faith as Narrator (voice)
1995
- Lumière & Company as (segment "John Boorman")
- Rob Roy as Robert Roy MacGregor
- Out of Ireland as William Murphy (voice)
- Miss Sarajevo as Self
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
- Ruby Cairo as Fergus Lamb
- Leap of Faith as Sheriff Will Braverman
- 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
- High Spirits as Martin Brogan
- The Dead Pool as Peter Swan
- Satisfaction as Martin Falcon
- The Good Mother as Leo Cutter
- Sweet as You Are as Martin Perry
- This Morning as Self
1987
- 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)
- The Mission as Father John Fielding
- If Tomorrow Comes as André Trignant
- Duet for one as Totter
1985
- The Innocent as John Carns
- A Woman of Substance as Blackie O'Neill
- Arthur the King as Grak
1984
- Miami Vice as Sean Carroon
- Goldene Kamera as Self
- The Bounty as Charles Churchill
- An Audience with Mel Brooks as Self (uncredited)
- Ellis Island as Kevin Murray
1983
- Krull as Kegan
- Across the Water as Martin
1982
- Nature as Narrator (voice)
1980
- My Dear Palestrina as Blacksmith
1979
- The Last Window Cleaner as Self
- Christiana as Greatheart
1978
- An Audience with... as Self
- Dinner at the Sporting Club as Dermot
- Pilgrim's Progress as Evangelist / Mr. Goodwill / Mr. Interpreter / Jesus Christ
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1974
- Playhouse as Blacksmith
1970
- Play for Today as Him
1968
- 60 Minutes as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee