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
The Fix as Larry
The Mongoose as Ryan "Fang" Flanagan
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

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

2023

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

2022

Obi-Wan Kenobi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi as Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
Memory as Alex Lewis
Blacklight as Travis Block
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Qui-Gon Jinn
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 Ice Road as Mike McCann
The Marksman as Jim

2020

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

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
Brave Blue World: Racing to Solve Our Water Crisis as Narrator
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - Actor
Lost Lives as Self (voice)

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

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
A Walk Among the Tombstones as Matthew Scudder
A Million Ways to Die in the West as Clinch
The Nut Job as Raccoon (voice)
Non-Stop as Bill Marks
Third Person as Michael
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet as Mustafa (voice)
Road as Narrator (voice)
Wild Japan: Snow Monkeys as Self - Narrator
Manny as 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

The Dark Knight Rises as Ra's Al Ghul
Wrath of the Titans as Zeus
Battleship as Admiral Shane
Taken 2 as Bryan Mills
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
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? as Self (archive footage)
The Story of Star Wars as Qui-Gon Jinn (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

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

2001

Evolution as Narrator
The Beginning: The Making of Star Wars 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 Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as Self - Narrator
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization as 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
Before and After as Ben Ryan
Michael Collins as Michael Collins
The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome as Host
A Leap of Faith as Narrator (voice)

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
Husbands and Wives as Michael Gates
Leap of Faith as Sheriff Will Braverman
Ruby Cairo as Fergus Lamb

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
The Good Mother as Leo Cutter
This Morning as Self
Satisfaction as Martin Falcon
Sweet as You Are as Martin Perry

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

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)
American Playhouse as Ethan Frome

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